Hp Laserjet 1300 Toner

Filling Your Own Laser Toner Cartridges Guarantees Lower Cost

Anyone who has purchased inkjet or laser toner catridges for their computer's printer has quickly learned that the real business manufacturers of printers are in is selling "consumables;" i.e. those items which must be replaced on a regular basis if you want to be able to use your printer.

It is commonly said among printer users that the manufacturers may as well give the printers away for free just so consumers will buy their inkjet or toner cartridges.

I recently was reminded of this painful fact when I purchased a Hewlitt-Packard Color Laserjet 2550L. It was on sale at one of those box-pushing retailers for $399 and as I output copy for desktop publishing, this printer seemed like the perfect purchase.

In truth, Hewlitt-Packard is to be commended, as the output from this inexpensive printer is truly beautiful. It will actually print the exact variation of any of the 14 million shades of color available using digital prepress software.

What's more, there is now inexpensive gloss paper which prints perfectly in this printer to give your work an even more professional look.

I was as happy as a desktop publishing clam until the printer stopped dead. Looking in the manual for the meaning of the blinking light, it turned out that one of the four color toner cartridges had run out of toner after 400 copies. Additionally, HP color toner cartridges have a chip built into each cartridge which closes down the printer if one toner cartridge goes dry. This guarantees you have to run to the store and buy a cartridge to meet your deadlines.

Heading over to Office Depot, then Office Max, I was catapulted into the laser printer Twilight Zone. To replace the four color toner cartridges for my printer would cost $320! That means shelling out 80 percent of the cost of the printer each time the toner has to be replaced.

And how often is that? The toner cartridges are rated as producing 2, 000 copies when installed new. However, that turns out to be true if the color used on a single page covers only 5 percent of the page. The purpose of graphics work is to use type, graphics, color and design in a complementary array of options to communicate ideas. And, believe me, 5 percent coverage is not going to allow any user to create the quality of work they hope to achieve.

Having the overwhelming feeling I was a chump, a very, very big chump, I was forced to fork down the $320 to get my job done on time. While only one cartridge had gone dry, I bought three other colors since it was a pretty good guess that the others would soon run out.

Determined that I should not again be a laser toner chump, I began scouring the internet for options to purchasing color laser cartridges at other than retail costs. In my wanderings, I discovered a number of alternatives.

First, I found "discounters" whose prices for the new HP color laser cartridges were the same as I had paid retail. Next I found companies selling remanufactured cartridges for about $10 less than retail. This meant, instead of spending 80 percent for the cost of the printer I would be spending 70 percent, and using a possibly inferior cartridge.

Finally, I came upon companies which sold bottles of powder toner along with instructions on refilling toner cartridges. While I was not excited about the prospect of opening a toner cartridge, I was less excited about turning over so much money each time I needed color toner.

By Robert Besser - Twenty-five years as a reporter, editor and newspaper publisher. I also have worked in network television news and politics.

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