When I was still supporting printers, we always bought remanufactured ones (not refillable) and kept a few of the OEM ones around in case we had to call the printer manufacturer for support.
Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv [email protected] Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 6:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OEM parts I will add this if the cartridge has been "reloaded" more than about 3 times I find that is usually fails. If by some strange miracle you mange to get it to work and refill it the fourth time it will empty itself into the printer. I have done this to enough personal printers to always suggest purchasing inkjet printers that have cartridges that can't be refilled or are not popular enough for the remanufactuers to be selling their cartridges. Jon On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Silvio L. Nisgoski <[email protected]> wrote: Well, around here, provided one buys the remanufactured / refilled cartridges / toners from someone that knows his work, the savings after two or three cartridges are so good that if in the 4th or 5th the printer has a problem, we can throw it away without remorse. And if we can get, like, 10 cartridge exchanges in it, the savings alow allow for buying a new printer. The prices they charge for original brand cartridges are insane... I agree the original ones have better quality, but I have had problem with defective ones also, and the trouble to make the store change them, or pay for the printer fixing, was the same that I would have with the people that remanufacture cartridges, so not that much faith in the "original brand" mantra. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Aldrich" <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 2:05 PM Subject: Re: OEM parts On Sat June 18 2011, you wrote: Same thing here with re-manufactured toner cartridges. Sales guy says they are great. We say, we've had problem in the past with the cartridges coming apart in the printer and spilling toner everywhere. Sales guy puts in writing, if that happens we will come clean the printer. After 2 or more trips here to clean printers, we've not heard from them again. Well, MY experience has been the opposite on the toner cartridges... Non- OEM seems to work pretty well for the ones that aren't under maintenance (Lexmark & Dell laser printers and Brother Laser MFPs.) We just have not had much luck with "remanufactured" inkjet cartridges... they appear to be full, but the printers can't / don't print with the remanufactured ink cartridges. *shrug* -- Thanks, John Aldrich Blueridge Industries IT Manager ~ 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 ~ 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
