It’s something that permanently makes me a bit irritated replacing my laser toner cartridges and I recently chose to try out toner refill kits. I had been warned of these a few years ago by a friend of mine (he prearranged a refill kit and received a bottle of toner ink !). It’s no pull somebody’s piling though my Lexmark printer costs over £200
for new cartridges . Anyway I thought I’d jot down my findings in a small toner refill review article.
When looking around for a kit to refill my toner cartidge I did some research – the waste in this industry is incredible – all is fit up to be used once and only once. In fact laser cartridges used to be refilled with ease save for now the printer manufacturers actively try to stop this – can you believe that many cartridges have small chips on them to stop them working after printing so many pages. This is basically the same as fitting something to your car that stopped it working after 20,000 miles so you had to buy a further lone. Frankly the more I read about this, the more I was single-minded to try it – what’s the top in me trying to be greener, recycling my trash, reducing carbon emissions if I just throw a perfectly useable cartridge away just because it needs some more ink .
That’s right – austerely place more ink in the average toner cartridge with a toner refill kit and the printer carries on printing . It took me a small research to find out a excellent supplier (try out links below for my recommendation) save for finally I found a steady whom I was pleased with. When I contacted them they did inform me that with my particular Laser printer you may possibly sometimes get a problem (lucky me) save for the worst case scenario was I saved the toner ink for a further cartridge.
They were very well-informed about all things to do with toner refill kits and I was pleased to do with business with them. I used the online selector and it told me what I needed – so I prearranged the special kit (which I only needed once) and the replacement toner ink. Next time the kit arrived with full instructions including a chocolate bar to eat whilst I waited for the small solder tool to excitement up . Basically this was what I needed to do – let the specially designed and supplied soldering iron excitement up (pack included an egg timer so you waited the right time). This was then applied to the side of the cartridge and it automatically made a small hole – shake the toner, pour in from the bottle and then use the supplied plug to seal .
The toner refill kit contained absolutely all I needed to do the job – it was so simple ! I’ve never used a soldering iron in my life save for all you had to was press it hostile to the side of the cartridge and it made the hole. You have to be careful with the ink as it’s so fine it’s nearly like liquid save for that makes it quite simple to pour. Doubtless took about 15 minutes to do 4 cartridges and they carried on printing fine – no difference to the originals. I subdue have loads of toner left as well so can refill them again.
The most rewarding part was not the money I saved save for the fact that I had reused something despite the hard work of the printer manufacturers. The trick is to try out out your printer with a company who have tested their refills, some laser and ink printers have small design flaws or issues which get on to them hard to refill. Save for the vast majority of printers can be refilled quite easily, as long as you use quality compatible toner. Save for I have also to say the process would be much simpler if the printer companies didn’t try to stop you just to bolster their profits though.
