We have about 75 small to medium size laser printers. For a few years we tried to save money with remanufactured or third party toners, running the gamut from some done by a local business person in their garage, to some from those companies that do the phone marketing, to ones available from Staples, Office Depot, and WB Mason, and even some manufactured by I think it was Toshiba or Xerox or some well known company.
Like others have said, the expense wasn't worth the cost savings, so we went back to OEM. I have to say that in the last 5 or so years, dealing with OEM cartridges for 75 printers, I don't believe I've EVER had a bad one. Plus the quality of the prints was noticeably better. Recently we decided to enter into a maintenance agreement for all of our printers where we pay by the page and they supply all toner, parts and labor. The down side is they supply remanufactured toners, but so far we haven't had many issues, and at least when we get a bad one they just send over another one, and if it leaks all over the printer, they come in and clean up the mess. We'll see how it goes. -----Original Message----- From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT: Off-Brand / Reman Toner I have not had the Mechanical issues, I agree with Leaking Toner, however we do get that with new cartridges just not as much. We have had several that report Empty with almost no pages printed, so we have to return to company for credit. -----Original Message----- From: Roger Wright [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT: Off-Brand / Reman Toner My experience with reman'd cartridges: 1) You will save some money, and 2) You will have more problems. If you're working with a good company the savings can offset the issues relating to leaking toner and mechanical issues. For us, the savings was substantial but the users and execs determined is wasn't worth the hassles and we returned to OEM toner. Roger Wright ___ Dr. Seuss is my favorite rapper! Cat - Hat... sheer genius! On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:27 AM, John Hornbuckle <[email protected]> wrote: We're an HP shop when it comes to printers, and we've always used HP brand toner. A few companies have been hitting us up lately trying to sell us off-brand and/or remanufactured toner. We've never bought these in the past, but maybe my fears are unfounded. Maybe they work just as well as HP toner, but for a lot less money. Anyone have any experience with them? Thoughts? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District www.taylor.k12.fl.us ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you do not have permission to disclose, copy, distribute, or open any attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by returning it to the sender and delete this copy from your system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
