Save 60% on Your Printing Budget with a Toner Refill Kit

Can you really save money when you use a toner refill kit? Yes. I have asked myself this question countless of times before finally settling on a firm answer. But coming up with an answer was not an easy coup. I had to get over my doubts and apprehensions on whether it is okay or not okay to refill an empty cartridge and administer the process on my own. Nevertheless, when I finally decided to go for it, I never looked back.

The promise to get ample savings may seem too good to be true but on the contrary, laser printer users who have sampled a compatible toner refill kit can attest to the authenticity of this claim. Normally, a compatible toner refill kit is 60% cheaper than an OEM product. To cite an example, an OEM replacement cartridge retailed at $80 has a cheaper toner refill kit counterpart at $20. Owing to the design of toner cartridges, a limit of 3 refills has been recommended; though this is not endemic to all brands because others can withstand 5 to 6 refills or print cycles. Nonetheless, the user still can save a few hundred dollars when a cartridge is reloaded 3 times with compatible toner.

The meager pricing of this consumable however does not imply inferior print quality and yield for refilled toner cartridges. Though produced by a third party manufacturer, the compatible toner powder supplied with toner refill kits has been expertly engineered to provide top of the line print quality and yield. In fact, compatible toner can duplicate or even exceed the performance of the OEM toner. Why is this so? It should be noted that compatible toner was manufactured using the material and particle size specifications of OEM toner, which allows this third party consumable to produce OEM-quality prints. Furthermore supplied with the same gram weight, compatible toner can likewise keep up with the yield rating of the OEM toner cartridge.

How to Refill a Cartridge without a Fill Plug?

Here, I will outline the procedure for a melt-and-pour type of cartridge. To state the obvious, this type of cartridge, does not come with a fill plug; therefore, the user is required to melt a hole on the cartridge's casing to access the toner hopper, which holds the toner supply.

Accessing the Waste and Toner Hoppers. Melt holes over specific sections of the cartridge using a sufficiently heated refill tool - one each for the waste hopper and another over the toner hopper to serve as fill hole. Thereafter, empty the waste hopper from residues of toner and seal the hole with electrical or duct tape. Do the same for the toner hopper, but do not seal the fill hole just yet.

Conducting the Refill. Open the toner powder bottle supplied with the kit and carefully attach the funnel cap to the brim to facilitate transfer of toner from the bottle to the hopper. The funnel cap will likewise help minimize any instance of spills. Following transfer, seal the fill hole with electrical or duct tape.

Reloading the Cartridge to the Printer. Shake the cartridge back and forth to evenly distribute the toner powder filling the toner hopper before loading it back to the laser printer. Perform a test print thereafter.

A third party compatible toner refill kit has been described as a redeemer, simply because it has reduced consumable replacement expenditures and brought laser printer technology closer to budget-conscious users.