On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 06:43 PM, One of the McKays wrote:
I have been getting my inkjet cartridges for my Canon BJC 6500 refilled by Cartridge World for about half the price of a new cartridge. I can't detect any difference in the output.
That makes sense -- Canon printers use ink wells, which are easy to refill and yield good results by just filling up the tank. Laser printers use dry toner, which is not so easy to refill, and (as Andrew mentioned) refilled toner cartridges do not always yield the best results.
Also, I concur with Andrew that if you have an HP printer, you will only get the best results if you use HP toner cartridges.
That is not my experience. If you put OEM quality toner into the original HP cartridge, it will work exactly like it did originally. There are pieces that do degrade over time, but the cartridges are (obviously) engineered so that they do not degrade through the entire duty cycle of the originally supplied toner. My experience is that on my HP 6P cartridges, I can easily get the original plus two complete refills before seeing any degradation whatsoever.
As far as the ease of refilling, it is MUCH EASIER to refill toner than to refill most inkjet cartridges. Many inkjet cartridges have internal sponges that are quite temperamental. I've only had about a 50% success rate refilling inkjet cartridges, and I've don this on Xerox, Lexmark, and Epson printers. Laser printer toner cartridges generally have a big reservoir that is not complicated at all. It just holds the dry toner. To add more toner using the tonerrefillkits.com system, you use a glorified soldering iron to burn a small hole in the top of the plastic reservoir. Pour in more toner, then insert a plug. That's it. The next time you refill, you pull out the plug, pour in toner and replace the plug. Takes all of 2 minutes -- or less than 30 seconds if you are quick.
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