Make your own Personalised Photo Keyrings

We show you how you can use your own printer and inexpensive blank keyring kits to make your own personalised Photo Keyrings at home.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the video of the process in action. Here's how it's done:

You Will Need:

• Acrylic Blank Photo Keyrings – We bought in bulk from Amazon, perfect for making gifts but smaller packs are available:
  • 50 Pack – https://amzn.to/2QVzXwi
  • 25 Pack – https://amzn.to/2UF8bTW
• Inkjet Printer – Your trusty home inkjet printer will be perfect, nothing special required here.
• Your preferred photo paper – We used our 190gsm Matt Photo Paper but any quality photo paper should work provided it's not too thick.
  • 190gsm A4 Matt Photo Paper – Find it here
• Guillotine– To cut your photos nice and straight.

How it’s Done:

Here’s The Video:

Make your own professional looking metalic effect gift tags this Christmas

Our resident 'craft expert' Tom shows you how to make some fantastic looking metallic gift tags at home using your trusty laser printer, a standard laminator and inexpensive reactive foil.

We’ve even put together some fantastic Free Gift Tag printables for you to download and use:

• INKredible Gift Tag Collection – Download
• Merry Christmas (Light) Gift Tags – Download
• Merry Christmas (Dark) Gift Tags – Download
• It's Cold Outside Gift Tags – Download
• White Christmas Gift Tags – Download
• Merry Xmas Gift Tags – Download

If you're more of a 'visual learner' you can skip below to see the video of the process in action. If not, here's how it's done:

You Will Need:

• Reactive Foil Transfer – We got Gold and Silver from Amazon here:
  • Gold – http://amzn.to/2nLM52w
  • Silver – http://amzn.to/2QIihEl
• Laser Printer – A black only (mono) one will do, you won’t be printing in colour.
• Your preferred stock – Paper, Card, we used our 130gsm Matt Photo Paper and some brown ‘Kraft’ card from Amazon:
  • 130gsm Matt Photo Paper – Find it here
  • 130gsm brown ‘Kraft’ Paper – http://amzn.to/2C13fSc
• Scissors / Knife– To cut the foil.
• 2 sheets of plain paper – To protect the foil from direct contact with the laminator.
• Standard office or craft laminator – The heating process is what transfers the foil to the toner and keeps it there.

How it’s Done:

Here’s The Video:

One of our biggest customer queries is regarding our replacement cartridges for Epson printers. We supply 'Patent Free' Compatible cartridges in order to comply with Epson patents and because of this, our cartridges do look somewhat different to OEM Genuine Epson cartridges and some other compatible cartridges that don't comply.

The video above shows a typical set of Patent Free cartridges being installed in a printer, just to give you an idea of the differences to expect when you receive and use the cartridges.

Patent Free cartridges differ in physical dimensions and chip design but are fully compatible with your printer.

Another potential source of confusion is when a customer can't find their printer model on the box or cartridge. This usually occurs when there are too many printers in the range to list on the product or alternatively when a new printer is released and box data has not yet been updated to show this.

The best thing to do is compare the cartridge code to those currently installed in your printer and if you're still not sure, do feel free to contact our friendly staff for confirmation!

Show them you care with one of our great FREE printables to print at home.

All cards come in a handy Pdf ready to print onto A4 paper / card of your choice and fold neatly into an A5 card.

To make it even easier why not pair them with one of our Greeting Card Kits and get that 'professional' look at home.

To Personalise

A Grandparents Day card to colour in

Free Download

Personalise with a photo of Grandad

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Personalise with a photo of Grandma

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Ready to Go

To a Special Grandad

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To a Special Grandma

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**AUGUST 2018 UPDATE**

As you may or may not be aware, HP have recently installed firmware updates onto several printers, including the Officejet Pro 6230 and Officejet Pro 6810/6820/6830, which may have disabled the functionality of compatible cartridges in your printer.

The good news is that HP have made a fix available in the form of downloadable firmware updates from their support site. The latest updates available are dated July 31st 2018.

If you encounter problems with your printer when installing any compatible cartridges, particularly when receiving the ‘Missing or Damaged Cartridges’ error message, then we recommend installing the latest correct firmware for your printer from the following links:

HP Officejet Pro 6810/6820
DOWNLOAD HERE

HP Officejet Pro 6830
DOWNLOAD HERE

HP Officejet Pro 6230
DOWNLOAD HERE

1) Once on the correct page for your printer model, you should see a Blue ‘Download Now’ button. Click the button and select ‘Save as’ or the file may automatically download.

2) Once the file has downloaded, run the file (Usually found in your Windows 'Downloads' folder) and this should then be uploaded to your printer, re-enabling your compatible cartridges once again.

Let us know if this re-enables compatible cartridges for you!

*Inkredible.co.uk do not take any responsibility for failed Firmware updates and as such, they are only to be undertaken at the customers own risk.

It has been confirmed that HP have released a new Firmware (August 2018) for any printers recently affected by non working compatible 903 and 903XL cartridges.

The new firmware file removes outdated supplies authentication measures as deployed in the latest automatic firmware version that may have been downloaded to your printer. This automatic update may prevent the printer from working with third party cartridges that contain non-HP security chips.

Please note that even with this change HP cannot guarantee the quality or reliability of non-HP supplies.

If you have one of the affected printers listed, then we recommend visiting the correct link for your printer below:

Which Printers Are Affected:

• HP Officejet Pro 6950
• HP Officejet Pro 6960
• HP Officejet Pro 6970
• HP Officejet Pro 6975

It has been confirmed that HP have released a new Firmware (August 2018) for any printers recently affected by non working compatible 953 and 953XL cartridges.

The new firmware file removes outdated supplies authentication measures as deployed in the latest automatic firmware version that may have been downloaded to your printer. This automatic update may prevent the printer from working with third party cartridges that contain non-HP security chips.

Please note that even with this change HP cannot guarantee the quality or reliability of non-HP supplies.

If you have one of the affected printers listed, then we recommend visiting the correct link for your printer below:

Which Printers Are Affected:

• HP Officejet Pro 8710
• HP Officejet Pro 8715
• HP Officejet Pro 8720
• HP Officejet Pro 8725
• HP Officejet Pro 8728
• HP Officejet Pro 8730
• HP Officejet Pro 8740
• HP Officejet Pro 8210

It has just been confirmed that HP have released another new Firmware (August 2018) for any printers recently affected by non working compatible 950/951 cartridges.

This new firmware file removes outdated supplies authentication measures as deployed in the latest automatic firmware versions your printer may have received. Your printer may be prevented from working with third party ink supplies that contain non-HP security chips.

Please note that HP cannot guarantee the quality or reliability of non-HP supplies.

If you have one of the affected printers listed, then we recommend visiting the correct link for your printer below:

Which Printers Are Affected:

• HP Officejet Pro 8610
• HP Officejet Pro 8615
• HP Officejet Pro 8616
• HP Officejet Pro 8620
• HP Officejet Pro 8625
• HP Officejet Pro 8630
• HP Officejet Pro 8640
• HP Officejet Pro 8660

Hello! I'd like to let you all know who I am. My name is Lottie and I am the newest member of the Inkredible family. I work part time to help Inkredible deliver their exceptional standards of customer service and I will do my best to provide you with just that.

I currently work just 3 days a week helping to finance myself through a Batchelor’s degree at Teesside University. I am studying English with Creative Writing which lends itself to requiring a lot of printing. I wanted to give you a little run down on how I use my trusty Canon Pixma printer and how I get the best out of this little fella.

I'm all about e-bills, wasting less paper and using online resources where I can, however when studying I find the best way for me to learn is by printing and highlighting work. I find it much easier to read through paper versions of information.

A simple trick that I recently learned to reduce the amount of ink I use (which is significant in the first place - good job I happen to know a fantastic ink supplier!) is to simply select the 'draft' or ‘fast’ option in printer settings, along with the greyscale option.

This tab is available once you've selected to print and is located in advanced options, where you will also be able to choose the type of paper you are using etc. This is a function that reduces the amount of black ink used, so it's great for when I'm printing just to read through or highlight chunks of information.

I also recently designed a book cover as part of an assignment. The full cover was exceedingly colourful and with some pretty excellent compatible inks, my trusty Pixma was able to create a masterpiece! Working for Inkredible I have already picked up many hints and tips for getting the best out of my printer, and the best thing is this knowledge is here for our customers too.

If you check out the rest of the blogs here or drop us an email, we’ll be able to help you with just about any aspect of your printing world.

Anyway, enough about me and us. We’re here for you!