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Refilling laser printer cartridge
I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no
longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. |
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"M. N." wrote:
I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. Depending on the model this should work well. The only longer term issue is that the waste compartment in the cartridge will eventually fill and overflow but not all cartridges have such a container. Also with some cartridges there are components that will wear out. I would be surprised if remanufactured or compatible cartridges are unavailable. If you can provide the make and model I should be able to give you more information. Tony MS MVP Printing Image |
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M. N. wrote: I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? According to this (UK) site http://www.refilltoner.com/toner_refill.htm and/or http://www.refilltoner.com/toner_refill_questions.htm it's a successful route. (Look around the site for information on the various methods used to refill laser toner cartridges).. Not sure which side of The Pond you're on, or which 'half' of the World, but the UK site above is repeated all over the place.. The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. Put it this way, if you don't try it, then your printer and certainly your old cartridges might well become pretty useless anyway. You can but see if it works - and if does, then you've avoided an immediate stock outlay, at least for the while until you've considered suitable replacement printers.. Slightly more expensive, although perhaps less messy(!), would be, depending on where you are, somewhere similar to.. http://www.cartridgeworld.org/ ...where you can send, or take, your used cartridges to be refilled ..perhaps even while you wait, if you're fairly sure the cartridge gubbins doesn't need any refurbishment.. Hope helps... Bill ZFC -- Adoption InterLink UK with -=- http://www.billsimpson.com/ Domain Host Orpheus Internet -=- http://www.orpheusinternet.co.uk/ |
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:58:58 -0400, M. N. wrote:
I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. bW Laser printers are cheap now. Just go get a new one. |
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On Mar 10, 10:58 am, "M. N." wrote:
I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. Got $3 bottles of toner for mine and they're working great. Used lots of it on the first toner cartridge, which is still going fine. Burning a hole shouldn't be nothing major, (mine's got a plug and it's not needed), though kind of a waste for one time on a $10/15 soldering 20W tool. As mentioned, when thought a spare in order and priced out my a drum's unit, it was $10 more than the rest of OEM toner assemblies, but built the way I liked. Or --- $20 more, above the toner unit, to buy the whole printer again, which is $20 more than what I paid on a sale that isn't necessarily going to come around again, any time real soon now, hear. Therefore, after applying logical deliberation, I decided using two is sometimes better than one, and I bought another Samsung for $60. Besides, never know when a heat fuser unit is up and going to go out (one of those newer types with the optical drum contained inside the cartridge). I don't miss my old Okidata -- though it did hurt a little to throw it in a dumpster (then looking around, not wanting to do that again, worrying a little about inkjets, unit I found a laser $40 new in the factory box). |
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On 11-Mar-2009, Joel wrote: I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. Has anyone successfully refilled? of course yes, all the refill companies and most people buying toner do. You just need to buy the correct toner, and refill it correctly (read the instruction or Google for more detailed information). Noting that toner is generally regarded as carcinogenic, and tends to act more like a dye than a powder, don't get it on the carpet. You may be fine with a refill but drums don't last forever. |
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Tony,
Thanx for taking time to reply. My printer is a NEC Superscript 860 and the cartridge # is NEC 20-080. I can buy the toner for that printer and a hole-burning tool for about $25. I think I know the appropriate area of the cartridge where to burn the hole. (There is no fill hole and I don't have a functional diagram of the cartridge.) I realize the burning will produce an odor & fumes and that the toner is very fine -- thus I will do it in a work area. Also, I will have to judge how much toner to pour from the bottle/funnel into the cartridge. (I don't know anything about a waste compartment .) I phoned Cartridge World and they cannot fill this cartridge. Thus my only option is to try to fill it myself after gathering information. Let me know if you have any specific info about this cartridge that could help me. -Marty ================================================== =========================== "Tony" wrote in message news "M. N." wrote: I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. Depending on the model this should work well. The only longer term issue is that the waste compartment in the cartridge will eventually fill and overflow but not all cartridges have such a container. Also with some cartridges there are components that will wear out. I would be surprised if remanufactured or compatible cartridges are unavailable. If you can provide the make and model I should be able to give you more information. Tony MS MVP Printing Image |
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On Mar 10, 8:27*pm, Tony wrote:
"M. N." wrote: I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. Depending on the model this should work well. The only longer term issue is that the waste compartment in the cartridge will eventually fill and overflow but not all cartridges have such a container. Also with some cartridges there are components that will wear out. I would be surprised if remanufactured or compatible cartridges are unavailable. If you can provide the make and model I should be able to give you more information. Tony MS MVP Printing Image Waste compartment, when present, is the same just reversed situation. You drill or melt the hole to empty instead of fill, then plug or tape over the hole. It is a bit messier though, shaking out waste toner compared to pouring new in. A nice way to do it is hold the sides of a plastic trash bag firmly around the area of the hole, with the bag mostly flattened so there is not excessive air to collapse out when finished which would create a toner cloud. Wearing a dust mask or doing it outside is advised. There is another longer term issue, there's usually a seal that can come loose over time as toner slowly works it's way onto the adhesive area. Might get as many runs out of the cart as the drum will last if drum is integrated, might find it starts being leaky before that. |
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:13:02 -0400, M. N. wrote:
Tony, Thanx for taking time to reply. My printer is a NEC Superscript 860 and the cartridge # is NEC 20-080. I can buy the toner for that printer and a hole-burning tool for about $25. I think I know the appropriate area of the cartridge where to burn the hole. (There is no fill hole and I don't have a functional diagram of the cartridge.) I realize the burning will produce an odor & fumes and that the toner is very fine -- thus I will do it in a work area. Maybe you should call the hazmet team Also, I will have to judge how much toner to pour from the bottle/funnel into the cartridge. (I don't know anything about a waste compartment .) I phoned Cartridge World and they cannot fill this cartridge. Thus my only option is to try to fill it myself after gathering information. Let me know if you have any specific info about this cartridge that could help me. -Marty ================================================== =========================== "Tony" wrote in message news "M. N." wrote: I have a black & white laser printer for which the toner cartridge is no longer available. However, I can get a bottle of toner for this printer, and a tool to burn a refill hole in the cartridge. Has anyone successfully refilled their B&W laser cartridge using the above? The printer works real well and I'd like to continue using it. Depending on the model this should work well. The only longer term issue is that the waste compartment in the cartridge will eventually fill and overflow but not all cartridges have such a container. Also with some cartridges there are components that will wear out. I would be surprised if remanufactured or compatible cartridges are unavailable. If you can provide the make and model I should be able to give you more information. Tony MS MVP Printing Image |
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:23:29 GMT, measekite wrote in
: Maybe you should call the hazmet team Maybe you should call the sanity inspectors. -- - Nicolaas |
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