Printer technology is advancing rapidly. Wireless printers are pretty hot now and I often get the question, should I upgrade my printer?
The answer is NO! If your printer is meeting your needs there are many reasons to keep it:
- The quality of printers these days are very flimsy compared with the printers of a few years back. Most inkjet printers last from 6 months to 3 years. Laser printers are more robust than inkjet printers and tend to last longer.
- Your older printer cartridges hold much more ink or toner than the new ones.
- The OEM’s (original equipment manufacturers) have been reducing the amount of ink and toner year over year. Check for page yields of the newest cartridges and you’ll be astonished. Yes, the price is low, but you are getting what you pay for.
- A new printer comes with starter or setup cartridges which have a minimal ink and toner. Refilling your cartridges is your best bet to reduce costs.
- The incidence of electronic failure on a more recent cartridge is much greater than with an older cartridge. HP 60, 61 and 901 series are particularly vulnerable.
- Newer cartridges have chip technology which prevents the ink level read from working on refilled cartridges. All HP cartridges except #88 and #02 series, all Dell and Lexmark, Epson series 69 to 99. Canon cartridges can be reset and Brother does not have chips. Toner cartridges are not affected as new chips are readily available.
- There is so much electronic waste these days, you might want to think twice before sending your working printer to landfill.
We recommend Canon and Brother inkjet printers as they don’t make it difficult for consumers who are environmentally conscientious and want to be green. But if you have questions about printers in general, feel free to contact us here at Cartridge World Newmarket!
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Until next time,
Karen
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Many of our Cartridge World Newmarket customers have recently purchased the HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw color MFP, on sale for $279.95 this week at Staples, and they are very happy with this printer so we thought we would weigh in on this product and give you our feedback.
Recently we purchased an additional colour laser printer to serve our customer needs and we chose the Xerox Phaser 6280DN (currently on sale at Staples for $499). You can pay a lot for a fast colour laser print in the office, so it’s refreshing to find the Phaser 6280 offers a real-world 25ppm. The print quality is also excellent and running costs are good when you have your cartridges remanufactured. With a fair degree of expansion potential, the machine should be able to stay with you as your business expands and is a good colour printer in most settings.
Laser printers have become much more affordable over the last couple of years. Once used mainly in offices, many consumers now have laser printers in their home offices. Lasers offer an attractive cost per page vs an inkjet printer, and you don’t have to worry about drying out issues that can occur with ink cartridges when you don’t use them on a regular basis. So how do you choose the right laser printer for you?
Sometimes we get calls to refill toner cartridges where the toner is just not yet available. When we tell customers this, they say “well can’t you just put any toner in”? The answer is NO! You see, not all toner is created equal. Here is an example of how using the wrong toner composition wrecked a printer.
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Recently I needed to purchase a new printer for my home office. The most important requirement was that it be wireless as the four members of my household have laptops.
