How to Reduce the Usage of your HP Toner or Printer Ink
At Printerinkcartridges.ie we are not just interested in selling HP toner but are committed to finding ways to help the environment as well as making a difference in your pocket. Our discounted prices have already helped you save money but we think you will benefit from some useful tips on even further savings on cost.
First of all try to reduce the output resolution on your laser printer. Similar to the draft mode on your inkjet printer, the laser printer output resolution setting is adjustable. If you are printing at a lower resolution the printer will use less toner. Your printer may be pre-set to 600 dpi or even 1200dpi, if this is the case then try resetting to 300 dpi. Depending on what you are printing, especially text, you will probably not see much of a difference in the print quality of your HP toner. The printer will also produce faster print as it has less time to produce ink on the paper.
In HP inkjet printers (or any brand of printer for that matter), the colour HP ink and toner bears the brunt of the cost during the lifetime of the printer. Try setting the printer to print black only and this will ensure that the printer only uses a small amount of colour ink (which it must do either way) to produce a black image as it may currently be configuring the black as much as 30% from the colour cartridge. Some HP toner laser printers have an added feature called ‘Toner Saver’. If this is activated then it will help save toner during the life of the toner cartridge.
Buying the correct toner for your printer may sound like an obvious suggestion but some businesses and home users buy the standard capacity HP laser toner or ink cartridge. Some printers are able to accept a high capacity or XL version of the toner. This ink and toner will print be better value and will print more pages for your euro. Under the same label of the correct toner comes the non-genuine HP ink and toner. Compatible or non-original HP toner laser is readily available and can cost as much as up to 100% less than the genuine article! Good quality compatible HP toner is manufactured by no-HP third-party manufacturers to ISO standard and is guaranteed to give you the same results as the original brand toner. It cannot be stressed how much of a difference this can make to a business or busy home user over the course of a year, the savings are huge and all without compromising the quality of the print.
In short, there are two types of non-original HP toner, compatible HP toner and remanufactured HP toner. Compatible HP toner is a toner cartridge that is manufactured as a more or less direct copy of the original brand toner but made without any infringement on copyright of the original brand cartridge. This is currently the most popular selling replacement toner for HP printers. The remanufactured cartridge is a cartridge that has been collected or returned to a third-party factory, cleaned, repaired if necessary, refilled, tested, repackaged and resold as a new replacement toner. There is a difference in the cost with the compatible cartridge being cheaper as it is generally mass-produced and the manufacturing costs are lower than checking and repairing individual HP toner cartridges.
Printing can become more cost effective when taking into consideration a combination of the above factors, buying smarter and seeking out supplier incentive deals when buying HP toner online.
- Published in HP Toners
Samsung laser toners for all printer models now available as high quality compatibles
As the demand increases for compatible Samsung laser toner cartridges manufacturing has been stepped up to the extent where Samsung toners have become one of biggest sought after range of compatible toners in Ireland. The new Samsung SL range of printer is ideally situated to become a big player in the black and white home printer market. Ideal for the small office or the busy home user is the Samsung ML-2165 laser printer making an ideal desk top printer. This printer uses the Samsung MLTD101S laser toner with a 1500 page output. This printer may be more for home use as a personal printer and will reproduce good quality graphics and text using the compatible toner. The size of the printer is probably its biggest selling point. The compatible Samsung SCX4521D3 has a better print output at 3500 pages in black and white, based on 5% coverage of an A4 page.
The quality of the compatible toner is every bit as good as the original Samsung toner and is a fraction of the cost. A good quality compatible Samsung SCX4521D3 can be picked up for as little as €33.63 with low cost next day delivery.
The compatible laser toner market has grown immensely in the last five years with more and more businesses making the switch to compatibles in an effort to save money and not compromising the quality of the print.
- Published in Laser Printers, Samsung
Will using compatible HP laser toner damage my printer?
As more and more businesses are considering making the move to using compatible HP laser toner it appears there is still some doubts about the quality of the compatible printer toner and if the printer will still be viable after using the toner. It’s true that in recent years there may have been some dubious laser toners on the market, maybe poor quality toners manufactured in the Far East but nowadays the quality assurance is there for all good quality toners. All good quality toner cartridges are manufactured to the same ISO standards as the original brand and in most cases are filled to capacity with toner. This means that the compatible toner cartridge will print more pages than the original brand (the original brand toners are just not filled to the top!).
The main difference between the original brand and compatible brand of toner is the price, in some cases it is possible to save up to 600% for a set of four toner cartridges! The savings to a busy office or home user are immense and this is a saving not to be taken lightly. The evidence is in the price per page that it will cost to print your document. A simple calculation of the number of pages the toner should print (always calculated at 5% coverage which is really an A4 page of text with double line spacing) divided into the cost of the toner.
All good online suppliers of HP laser toner in Ireland will offer a money-back guarantee with all their products ensuring there is no risk to the buyer. It is our experience that apart from a few faulty ‘chips’ on the toners, there is really no reason why the toner should not work perfectly in the HP laser printer. The one exception is for printing large volumes of sticky labels, some of the compatible toners may not adhere to the label material and not print correctly, if this is the case you should certainly discuss it with your toner supplier before you make the purchase.
It’s very likely that when you make the switch to compatible HP laser toner you will not revert to the original HP brand especially when you see the results and in most cases there is no difference. If the color saturation in your document is of great importance to you, check with your supplier to see if this will be an issue for you before you buy. All in all, there is no downside to using compatible laser toner and any negative feedback is usually far outweighed by positive savings on money and extra pages printed.
- Published in HP, Laser Printers