How often do you have to change your toner cartridge?

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Posted on June 30, 2022 by Rawan

A toner cartridge filled with toner can print thousands of pages because laser printers can print thousands of copies of a single toner cartridge. As a result, laser printers have become extremely popular. Numerous families have bought laser printers too. The toner cartridge must then be prompted every time the printer is used. The printer’s toner cartridge is comprised of three components: the magnetic drum, the photosensitive drum, and the toner cartridge. Several laser printers are self-contained and can be replaced separately, but more of the three are embedded into one. However, the most common answers would be when your toner cartridge expires. When you run out of the toner cartridge and when you change printers. Nevertheless, how would you know if any of these happen and when should you actually change the toner?

Toner Cartridges - when should you change them?

Here are some tips to prepare you for any of these.

The Tips

The expiration dates are found on the side of printer cartridges or on the side of the cartridge boxes. For most printers, the first indication that you’re nearing the end of your toner cartridge will be a low toner warning on the printer’s exterior, either on a screen or an the printers LED light.

As for needing a new printer, this will come down to many different reasons.

What are the reasons?

Your cartridges may end up being too expensive. This can affect you in terms of prints depending on how many pages you usually print. Another reason could be your printer may not work anymore, or the print speed is too slow. It could even come down to the print quality being poor. All these factors can lead to one buying a new printer. To use your printer, it is recommended that you print every 2-3 weeks, however if you are trying to replace your printer than it is recommended that you replace it every two years. This all just depends on different factors such as technology upgrades, security protocols and wear-and-tear damage.

Your cartridges can also dry up if you are not using it properly. Make sure that if you do use your printer often, to keep your cartridges sealed and stored upright in a cool and dark space. When installing your cartridges, double check by running a print job at least once every couple of weeks to keep your cartridges in good condition.

Electricity Bills going up!

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Posted on March 25, 2022 by Rawan

As you may already know, our electricity bills are increasing. Should we aim to live our lives like everyone else in the 18^th / 19^th century? The most reliable times being when electricity was just invented and social media never existed… any power cuts? You could still read a newspaper; still write letters, submitting your homework by hand etc. Not to say that either of these are bad things, it is just better to be reliable, especially when you have an important task to complete. The good thing about investing in paper is that you would not be facing any of these issues when the electricity bill increases.

Not only is electricity bills increasing but also due to inflation, everything has gone up by 5% in the market. Realistically, it feels like the inflation has gone up by 20%! This has influenced everyone greatly by this, whether you own a business, work in a business or if you are just a buyer. Why not save some money and invest in compatible cartridges? Whether you need to print your homework or even photocopy your documents! We value your time and money because we always aim to consider our customers and do our best to assist you on buying the best-valued products on our market/industry.

However, how can you tell if an Ink Cartridge is a compatible?

On our website, we label the compatibles through the titles of the product. You may miss this, so the best way to identify a compatible cartridge is from the box design. You’ll notice that original cartridges will have all the details including the logo. However, the easiest method would be to type in your printer model or cartridge on our search or quick finder. When you do this, all of your options should appear. Look for the compatible cartridge and when you do that, adding your cartridge to the cart should be straight forward. You could save yourself money and your compatible inks will fit into your printer the same way as originals. The quality is almost identical, you are saving the planet and you get more prints!

Here are the most popular Ink and Toner cartridges that may fit well with your printer;-

HP 12A (Q2612A) Toner Cartridge
HP 21 C9351 Inkjet Cartridge
Epson 603 Ink Cartridge (Starfish)
HP 65 / HP 304XL Cartridge

The list goes on…

We sell all the originals too. If you want to be safe and still rely on original cartridges there’s still the option to do so too. We hope that this blog helped in terms of affordability and time management.

Colossal Savings on HP toners

Posted on January 25, 2013 by aalim

Following the recent InknTonerUK website improvements, we are continuing our goal to save YOU money, whenever possible on ink and toner cartridges. If, you have read the last post, you may already know that the new budget and premium feature on the website gives you more choice, all you have to do is take advantage of that and choose the most suitable option to you. Today’s Blog Post is all about savings and how to save with HP Toners.

Have you been spending more than you should on your toner cartridges? To answer that question, we have decided that it would be a good idea to inform our customers of unbelievable savings that can be made, if they choose to go for budget compatible or premium compatible, instead of the original toner cartridge.

If, you own one of the following printers, you might be in for a pleasant surprise, when you find out how much cheaper the budget and premium toner cartridges actually are.

HP Laserjet P2030 Printer, HP Laserjet P2035 Printer, HP Laserjet P2035N Printer, HP Laserjet P2050 Printer, HP Laserjet P2055 Printer, HP Laserjet P2055D Printer, HP Laserjet P2055DN Printer, HP Laserjet P2055N Printer, HP Laserjet P2055X Printer.

We start with with HP LaserJet (lucky printer owners) and look what we have here. Original HP 05A Black toner cartridge costs £69.44, a cheap price indeed, but if you look at the compatible that we offer, it is only £19.15. You save £50.29!!! But that is not all if you choose to buy the HP 05X High Capacity Black Cartridge 3-Pack you save even more with original costing £325.37 and Budget only £57.36 your savings would add up to gigantic £268!!! You could actually go on holiday for that type of money, just by choosing the budget toner cartridge instead of the original.

HP Laserjet P4014 Printer, HP Laserjet P4014DN Printer, HP Laserjet P4014N Printer, HP Laserjet P4015DN Printer, HP Laserjet P4015N Printer, HP Laserjet P4015TN Printer, HP Laserjet P4015X Printer, HP Laserjet P4015XM Printer, HP Laserjet P4510 Printer, HP Laserjet P4515N Printer, HP Laserjet P4515TN Printer, HP Laserjet P4515X Printer, HP Laserjet P4515XM Printer.

If you own any of the printers above you are in for a real treat, just take a look at the prices. Hp 64A standard capacity original toner cartridge price is £133.35 not bad at all, but the budget toner cartridge will cost you only £43.71. Now, take a good look at the price of the Hp 64X high capacity black toner cartridge 3-Pack. It’s £605.19 and it is a reasonable price, as you are getting 72,000 pages altogether. The budget toner cartridge on the other hand, costs almost 5 times less £126, meaning that total saving for you would add up to astrological 479.19!!!! I think, someone is flying to Hawaii soon!!

Even, if you don’t own any of the HP Laserjet printers, that we talked about it is always highly advisable to check and consider budget or premium compatible toner cartridge alternatives as they are most of the time at least twice as cheap. No need to thank us – just don’t forget to bring back a souvenir from that holiday.

We hope you learned about savings and HP Toners in today’s Blog Post and we hope to see you next week!

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written by Donatas Ivaskevicius

Battle: Original vs Compatible

Posted on December 7, 2012 by aalim

Matrix of the Problem

Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) such as Canon, HP, Brother and Epson etc – take years to design, develop new technology and manufacture their printers. Apparently, it takes up so much of their resources, that by the time the printers fully develop and are ready for selling to the consumers – the OEM companies are in a loss. The only way for the OEM to get their investment back and make profit, is to sell ink and toner cartridges at higher prices and try to prevent the public from buying the compatible ink and toner cartridges, although the latter is unnecessary. It’s a difficult battle for many companies, big or small. What does the competition look like today, and what tactics are used? Let’s get started and get into the details of every battle constantly fought by huge companies.

Dirty Tactics

One of the latest moves by HP in the battle of original vs compatible ink and toner cartridges, is to install new software drivers on to your computer after you bought HP inkjet printer. Once it is time for you to get your replacement inks, you decide to go for the cheaper compatible HP ink cartridges. Your cartridges arrive swiftly and It is all fine, but after you inserted the compatible ink cartridges into the printer, the software installed by the HP confronts you with the following messages:

“Counterfeit or Used Cartridges Installed”

Warning

Your printer warranty does not cover repairs or service due to use of non-original ink cartridges
Information about ink levels will not be available
This is not a genuine ink cartridge to continue click OK, to cancel the print job click Cancel (no OK button provided)

The false information displayed such as “counterfeit ink cartridge installed” can really put the consumer off and make them feel as if they are doing something wrong. The Remanufacture Industry invested time to develop compatible ink and toner cartridges and OEM such as HP bombard the consumers with unnecessary information, in some cases causing the consumers to send the 100% fine compatible ink cartridge back where they bought it from.

Original or Compatible Ink Cartridge for me?

When I first got into the printing industry, I was not aware of compatible/remanufactured/aftermarket ink and toner cartridges. The consumer awareness is a vital part that determines, what we purchase and who we sponsor. While multi-million companies base their success on profit, sometimes the consumer is lost in the middle of all the “palava” but facts remain facts regardless of the OEM companies trying to tell you otherwise. Advantages of purchasing the compatible ink cartridges instead of originals are huge and undeniable. By purchasing the compatible inks you save bundles of cash on your printing costs, while the effect on printing quality is only slight, you also contribute to a cleaner planet.

Mark Twain, American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer once said “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”. I hope Ink’N’TonerUK helped you to put on your “wise printing shoes” to determine what ink and toner cartridges are best for you.