laser printer refiling cartridge

[monty]

Old printer not running on new computer. The Brother HL3140CW A4 Colour Laser Wireless Printer looks good at the price. I found this company which give you all the kit you need to refill. Anyone had experience with this?

[VapingBad]

It is potentially very messy, do it where you can hover everything within a few metres and no carpet or soft furnishings close by. It works as well though the last printer I did this with did not require reset as yours does.

You can also get non branded refiled ones for reasonable price IIRC I got a Staples one (online delivered to shop much cheaper than the shop) for about £20 (8,000 page) and I think the Brother one was 3-4 times the price, probably not such a saving for you because more and smaller cartridges.

[phatfil]

I have refilled laser toner cartridges of all sizes and it is a very messy job best done inside a big transparent plastic bag outside. and dont wear any clothes you want to keep stain free.


also before attempting to refil a cartridge remove it bag it and shake violently and perhaps give it a few shocking raps, the powder toner can settle/clump inside a cartridge and a knock n shake can free it up..

a paintbrush and hoover are good for cleaning the cartridge before refitting it use the brush to get toner out of nooks n corners

also if you scratch the static belt, you can clean off a scratch with an ordinary pencil rubber (soft white type not the grainy abrasive type) and a polish with cutting paste and a soft sponge 

[yahoo2u2]

TBH see if you can find an after market one. Refills work, but as said are messy and may also need cartridge resets etc. I used ot do it when they were very expensive.

Black and colour ones £12 incl delivery TBH not worth messing about
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-Black-Toner-Cartridge-For-HL-3140CW-HL-3150CDW-HL-3170CDW-Replace-TN241BK-/331041824555?hash=item4d13a15f2b:g:3sUAAOxysE5Sahjc

[nanotm]

monty whats wrong with getting the tonners on the cheap and the printer for free at the same time ?

www.ijtdirect.co.uk/DellC2665DNF/ ok so that's the most expensive one I could find they do cheaper ones

if its for your business/home office then list it as a necessary expense and claim against the tax return and the consumables price is free as well

[yahoo2u2]

Its £479 PLUS delivery LOL

Hardly free

[nanotm]

yahoo2u2
thats true you can get much better cheaper printers (especially given deal prices around at the moment) Dell stuff your always paying an extra 45% markup for the name,

I used that link to demonstrate there are better options to refillable toners, both in terms of mess /convenience and of course in terms of health protection, but also because for business use it doesn't matter how much it costs as its tax dedcutable and its better getting something that is "business grade" as it comes with other implied protections that "home grade" kit doesn't have, you buy a microwave from the supplies for £1100 for work and can get the exact same device for £100 in the local supermarket, the only difference mechanically and visually is the extra sticker on the back of it, however it comes with the limited liability stuff that the supermarket version doesn't give you, so should it malfunction and injur someone then its the manufacturer who's on the hook (for business grade only) providing you complied with all the instructions they supply, if the product isn't specifically "business grade" then its you the employer on the hook for any and all damages or problems .....

personally I would rather let someone swing on the rope than be the one its getting sized up for /



and if its for home use, well I value what's left of my health to risk it on saving a couple of quid on a toner pack

[yahoo2u2]

Well its not clear home or business, but even so, £12 for a new cartridge aint that bad IMHO

[VapingBad]

It's just you need 4 of the buggers that makes it so speedy and new ones generally come with smaller cartridges so not long before you need to spend £160 if you get the manufactures ones. I'll stick to a B&W duplex network printer and use the print shop for colour, I have 3 colour inkjets here all with clogged heads and they get so little use 90% of the ink goes in cleaning cycles so a colour laser is an attractive idea, but having worn out 3 or 4 B&W laser printers I think the print shop for colour is still my cheapest option long term.

[nanotm]

Feb 26, 2016 13:26:03 GMT VapingBad said:

It's just you need 4 of the buggers that makes it so speedy and new ones generally come with smaller cartridges so not long before you need to spend £160 if you get the manufactures ones. I'll stick to a B&W duplex network printer and use the print shop for colour, I have 3 colour inkjets here all with clogged heads and they get so little use 90% of the ink goes in cleaning cycles so a colour laser is an attractive idea, but having worn out 3 or 4 B&W laser printers I think the print shop for colour is still my cheapest option long term.

ahh yeah the last laser printer I had at work was an A3 colour job and it chucked out pages pretty fast but the colour was nothing compared to the stuff the reprographics place could produce with the high-speed litho's  inkjets are great for photo's though and a couple of high gloss posters but you really need the high end print runs for decent quality fast production runs.

also I noticed that the laser printers don't seem much good for more than about 50 pages on a single run (didn't matter if it was a dell Lexmark cannon or Xerox printer) they all suffer the same qualiy degredation (25 pages at best when doing full colour) and the cost per print is actually quite high,

the A3 brother MFC I have now at home is seriously cheap per page, but perhaps that's because I bought all the supplies during a sale and got 4 of each cyan /magenta/yellow and 6 black high yield carts + 250 a4 photo, 500 standard 6x4 photo 100 a3 photo 20 a4 photo stickers 20 t-shirt transfers, 500 160gsm a4 paper and 2500 80gsm a4 paper for under £200 (normal price based on rrp around £500) but I only buy stuff like that when its on sale/special offer so it should last me some time   besides amazon regularly has price fluctuations where the carts go from normal price of around £25 to between £6 and £12 (oh I didn't get all of it from the same place at the same time) in 6 years the only fault was the print head was broken on the day it arrived and brother sent out an engineer to fix it the same day for free, when I printed out a 200 page document it took about 40 mins and it also doesn't spit out ozone whilst its running which is a great bonus for health conscious folks, although its warmup time is longer than a lazer when just doing the odd page here and there/

[VapingBad]

I always buy by cost per page (about 0.25p per side B&W), I have a Brother HL-5380DN duplex, top of the range was cheaper due to the included 8k toner & 3 years free on-site warranty.

[djs]

I bought from IJT direct (Cannon)....

What they did was to remove the Authentic Kanger (Cannon, whoops ) carts and include a set of their own. That's how they cut me the deal.

I accepted that for the deal. (It's a less good deal than it looks i.m.o.)

The next two years of my life were then routinely interrupted by IJT phoning me and asking if I needed carts. I got rid of them one day by throwing the printer in bin whilst they were on the phone.



Did the trick. I wouldn't recommend them.

(All this has nowt to do with Laser printers, but just a heads up....)

[VapingBad]

Also I think they only really last as long as the drum, probably < 30k pages as the cost of replacing the drum on an old laser or 4 on a colour one you might as well get a new one.

[monty]

Thanks all... still thinking