Romania might be recycling a mere 1% of the total used printer cartridges now, but things are bound to change. This is a promise made by UK’s IT Image, which has recently opened the first recycling factory in Romania. This facility located near Bucharest (Otopeni) is the largest in the entire Eastern Europe. The initial investment was worth 500,000 euros. IT Image is one of the leading international producers of cartridges compatible with the main brands on the world market and has three more productive lines besides that in Romania, two of which in UK and one in Ireland. IT Image’s employees practically take the used cartridges apart, clean them and replace the broken components. The cartridge is then reassembled and sold for a lower price than a new one. The quality is ISO 9002 certified (each product is separately tested for quality control) and the cartridges are guaranteed to work as fine as the new ones. Today’s technology allows the people at IT Image to practically recondition 98% of the cartridge models on the market, some of which are even sold under the same brand as that of the original maker: HP, Lexmark, Canon, Xerox, Epson etc. ZF