Rant Printer ink

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We have a Brother color laser printer. The printer takes 4 cartridges to fill it up. When you first get the printer you get "starter cartridges" which last a short time. Next you have the choice of regular or "high yield" (more expensive) cartridges. A refill is within a few bucks of $400.00

Since we do a lot of printing, we looked at after market toner. The color rendition was terrible so we are stuck with factory.

The cartridge uses a flag gear to alert the printer that it's empty. We quickly learned to reset the flag gear and run the cartridges through a second time.

I saved up spent cartridges with the idea of seeing if I could recover enough toner to refill a set .

I found there is a LOT of toner left in "empty" cartridges. There is NO physical difference between starter, regular or high yield cartridges. A starter cartridge lacks a flag gear, and the flag gear shape differs between the regular and high yield cartridges.

Bah humbug
 
Last time I needed a printer, I went to Costco, and looked at the ink.
One type of ink was more plentiful and less expensive than all the others, so I bought a printer that used those cartridges.
 
Last time I needed a printer, I went to Costco, and looked at the ink.
One type of ink was more plentiful and less expensive than all the others, so I bought a printer that used those cartridges.
Just did the same, after going thru 3 or 4 disposable HPs that crapped out ... except went to Walmart and bought a $50 Epson.
 
Was this a rant or a confession? So the author noticed that changing physical cartridge dimensions is not done when changing the contents of said cartridges. How else is a machine supposed to work? At any rate, the rant part of this rant was missing. Red card to the ranter and moving on.
 
currently 6 printers, years of using reman'd or serviced inkn cartridges or toner (inkjet and laser) off ebay various suppliers, and probably 90% success. I also refill. I probably could not have bought an airplane if I had bought new supplies all these years.
Yes I get black fingers from time to time.
 
We have a Brother color laser printer. The printer takes 4 cartridges to fill it up. When you first get the printer you get "starter cartridges" which last a short time. Next you have the choice of regular or "high yield" (more expensive) cartridges. A refill is within a few bucks of $400.00

Since we do a lot of printing, we looked at after market toner. The color rendition was terrible so we are stuck with factory.

Here's what you want: https://www.amazon.com/Epson-Expres...TF8&qid=1526598210&sr=8-4&keywords=epson+l210

Y
es, it's expensive. That's because the ink doesn't subsidize the printer. I have two of the previous model. Love them.

"Includes enough ink to print up to 4,000 pages black/6,500 color (2) — equivalent to about 20 ink cartridge sets (3)

Save up to 80 percent on ink with low-cost replacement bottles (4) — plus easy-to-fill, supersized ink tanks"
 
Was this a rant or a confession? So the author noticed that changing physical cartridge dimensions is not done when changing the contents of said cartridges. How else is a machine supposed to work? At any rate, the rant part of this rant was missing. Red card to the ranter and moving on.
Additional penalty assessed for not understanding the difference between ink and toner.
 
Seems like an excellent use of a Dremel tool to strip the flag gear. LOL.
 
"Includes enough ink to print up to 4,000 pages black/6,500 color (2) — equivalent to about 20 ink cartridge sets (3)"

Also from that page:
“INK NOT INCLUDED”

Mmm...
 
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