Postage Meters

Postage Meter Supplies

Postage meter supplies can be costly. Postage meter ink costs and tape costs can add up. As such, it's important to look at total costs when buying a postage meter. It's also important to source cheap postage meter supplies...but be sure you get high-quality postage machine supplies.

In buying postage meter supplies, you face a tough decision.

You can buy postage meter suppliers from your postage meter manufacturer or you can use a third-party vendor of postage meter supplies.

This applies to postage meter ink cartridges and postage meter tapes, as well as other postage meter supplies.

If you search the web, you can find a variety of postage meter supplies for Hasler , FP (Francotyp Postalia), Neopost and Pitney Bowes postage meters.

But will buying third-party postage meter supplies damage your postage meter or result in lower quality mailings?

It's a distinct possibility. For example, low-quality postage meter tapes can experience curl and feeding problems. They may also not be smudge resistant, which can result in smeared addresses on your mailing labels.

Similarly, low quality postage meter ink cartridges can have problems with ink leakage. This can damage the postage meter. Even without an ink leak, some say that low quality postage meter ink can clog up the print heads on a postage meter.

While it's tempting to buy supplies for postage meters on the web from the cheapest postage meter supplies vendors you can find, it does have some material risks.

The best advice we can offer is to do your homework. If you are going to buy postage meter supplies from somebody other than the postage meter manufacturer, it's best to do thorough research on the vendor and make sure they offer high-quality postage meter supplies.

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