My Tektronix 740 color laser printer had a similar way of handling toner. One day a looked carefully at the cartrdige and found that I could tape two tiny holes in the cartridge and fake the printer to think that there was enough toner to keep printing (there was some kinf of optical sensor that sensed the toner was about to end). That way I could get a couple hundred more of color pages.
Boy, how I want an A3 printer...! All my life! With a duplexer! > Listsibs: > > I had one concern after the information on the Ricoh AP 2610. Somone > had told me that sometimes these inexpensive laser printers use a > counter in the toner cartridge, so that when it is advertised that the > cartridge is good for some number of copies, when that number of copies > has been printed, that's all, folks. The price point of the toner > cartridge for the Ricoh caused me to be concerned that this might be > true with this unit, and I sent an email to the local sales rep asking > about it; I was informed that there are volume sensors in the cartridge, > rather than a counter, so that if one was printing documents with less > density than the standard, one could presumably get more copies than the > 20k advertised. He answered my followup question before I got a chance > to ask; the density upon which 20k copies is based is 5 percent toner > coverage. If, as I suspect, typical music has a lesser density than the > standard text page, thus, the number of copies per toner cartridge is > significantly increased: if toner coverage of a sheet of music is 2.5 > percent, for example, the cartridge should last for about 40k copies. > > ns > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
