At first when printers came into existence, they were mainly used for printing black and white documents but when color printers were produced, printing color documents became possible too. Now there are color printers that produce colorful and vibrant photo prints. These prints match the quality of photos developed at local photo centers. However, similar to black ink cartridges, color cartridges too run out of ink quite fast. On top of that they are more costly than black ink cartridges. So replacing the color ink cartridge might be a costly affair while refilling ink can be a better and cheaper alternative.

Essentially there are two kinds of color Inkjet Cartridges  and each is meant to work with a certain kind of printer and a certain kind of printer head. The first one is the single three-color cartridge, which is the oldest type of ink cartridge and is found in older printers and a few newer ones. This type of color ink cartridge consists of three separate rooms for each color: red, green and yellow or any other group of colors. The size of this cartridge is the same as the size of three individual ink cartridges placed together. The second one is the single ink cartridge.

Today the individual color ink cartridges are found in printer brands like Epson and Canon. Each ink cartridge contains just one single color. This is a good option, as a printer user needs to purchase only that color ink, which is required. Even so, there are options available to purchase the complete package with the main colors and this is a much better option than searching for a single color. Once done with the purchase, the only need is to refill the cartridge with ink as per instructions. So when the requirement is for vivid photo prints, color ink refills can be quite an economical choice.