KAREN THOMPSON'S BLOG
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment, Technical on Mar 31st, 2011
By accepting firmware upgrades for your printer, you could potentially lock out the use of refilled printer cartridges. This means you may only be able to use original cartridges supplied by your printer manufacturer, which will in turn increase the amount you spend on printer cartridges.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Mar 1st, 2011
These days printers have shamefully become a throw away item. With the low cost of purchasing a printer and the lower quality of printers, they are not as valuable to some as they used to be. The good news is, most printers can be fixed.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Nov 24th, 2010
Most people don’t know that Lexmark has two types of cartridges that can be purchased after the “one time use” cartridge is empty:
* The standard non refillable ones, sold at the big box stores, and
* The refillable ‘A’ version of the same cartridge sold at Cartridge World.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Nov 9th, 2010
One of our valued customers recently came to us after learning a valuable lesson. This area business decided they could probably save even more money buy purchasing “refilled” cartridges on-line rather than from Cartridge World. We got a call from that area business last week and their message couldn’t have been clearer: you get what you pay for!
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Oct 14th, 2010
Since July 2005, Cartridge World Newmarket has been helping local residents and businesses save money on their printer ink and toner cartridges. The demand for our products has continually risen. With a full-time staff of 4, we outgrew our 850 sq. ft unit and have recently relocated to a unit measuring 2,100 sq. ft.
Our new location is 16640 Yonge Street, on the west side, just south of Mulock.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Aug 24th, 2010
Re-manufactured cartridges contain high quality components, and give excellent printing results. More than 3 million companies around the world already rely on these quality products for their printing needs. They trust the quality and reliability of re-manufactured cartridges for their day-to-day printing needs as well as for their most important projects.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Jul 15th, 2010
Most have more than one life cycle – most inkjet cartridges can be refilled several times before having to purchase a new cartridge. Laser toner cartridges have components that are replaced in the remanufacturing process and toner cores can be used many times because of this.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Jun 29th, 2010
Have you ever been so frustrated with a paper jam in your printer that you just yank out the paper? And to add fuel to the fire, your printer won’t work anymore. Every week or so, we have customers bring their printer in for service due to a paper jam. So we thought we would publish some great tips and steps to follow when you have a paper jam.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on Jun 15th, 2010
Currently both OEM’s (original equipment manufacturers, HP, Canon, etc) and remanufacturing companies co-exist globally and so do their respective recycling programs. But OEM’s and the remanufacturing industry will always remain on opposite sides of the fence. It is for society to arrive at a conclusion as to which one is a better recycling option. An option that is economical, environmentally friendly and benefits society at large without compromising on both quality and output has to be selected. The recycling option that the customers and society eventually choose will be determined more by an environmental need than simply an economic need.
Posted in business, Eco-friendly, environment on May 18th, 2010
If you are looking for a new printer the task can be daunting, with so many makes and models to chose from.
When it comes down to buying a printer, the real key is finding the best printer for your needs. And how do you find the best printer for you? Ask questions! Here are 6 great questions to ask yourself in order to find the absolute best printer for all of your printing needs.
