Your Wish Items for the New Year

Do you have a new year’s wish list? If you are a laser printer user, then a toner refill kit is one item that should form part of the things you’d want to get for the upcoming year. Not that you won’t be able to afford it, but a steady supply of monochrome or color refill kits on hand should give you a year of uninterrupted, quality printing without putting a dent in your pockets.

So now that you’ve registered a toner refill kit for say your Brother HL-4040 laser printer, just where should your family and friends secure this consumable? Well, they can easily purchase it online and have it delivered to your home in time for the New Year’s celebration. Laser Tek Services, Inc. offers a wide array of third party consumables, from compatible toner cartridges, reset chips, OPC drum kits, reset gears and of course toner refill kits.

For the HL-4040 laser printer, the Brother TN-115/TN-110 toner refill kit 4 Pack can be used to refill both the high yield (TN-115) standard yield (TN-110) cartridge at the low price of $154.95. Package includes 4 bottles of compatible black, cyan, magenta and yellow toner. Materials necessary to conduct the refill are likewise supplied such as toner wipes, 4 funnel caps, a pair of latex gloves and an illustrated instructional material. See what’s up for grabs with every purchase of a Brother TN-115/TN-110 toner refill kit.

LTS toner is 100% compatible with your toner cartridge and laser printer. Compatible toner has been engineered to match the particle specifications of the OEM toner. Therefore, expect the TN-115/TN-110 compatible toner to work seamlessly with cartridge and printer components as well as fuse properly with paper, without causing any damage to your equipment. Also get crisp, clear and professional prints as if you are using an OEM toner cartridge to produce those print jobs.

LTS toner produces similar yield at 5% page coverage. Every bottle of toner is supplied with the same gram load as the OEM toner cartridge. This way, refilled cartridges get the same rating with every printing cycle.

LTS offers free shipping. Orders transacted online and exceeding $50 are shipped for free to any location in the United States and Canada. Items are also shipped the next working day so definitely there won’t be any delay in the receipt of your wish item. For any inquiries, aftersales and troubleshooting concerns, you can easily get in touch with LTS representatives during working hours at its toll free number 1-877-945-2737.

Handling Tips for Brand New Toner Cartridges and Toner Refill Kits

Color laser printing is expensive because of the bundled cost of its replacement consumables, particularly the toner cartridge. Therefore, most consumers would really find ways to extend the print capacity of the toner inside the cartridge and get more than the expected yield from the cartridge unit. Many users have turned to toner refills (use of compatible toner refill kits) to replenish the toner supply of an empty toner cartridge and extend its serviceable life. Refilling is undeniably the perfect option, because nobody can deny the fact that toner cartridges are built sensibly to last longer, not just for one print cycle as what printer manufacturers maintain but to as much as 3 print cycles, as recommended.

The initial loading of a brand new toner cartridge into the laser printer is a critical factor and must be dealt with seriously since this will affect the nominal print cycle of the cartridge. Below are some tips to consider to help sustain the cartridge and fully utilize its capacity.

Remove the sealing tape first before loading the cartridge to the printer. The sealing tape is a clear plastic strip of about 1 foot long that prevents toner from leaking when cartridge is not in use or in transit. Be careful not to break the tab which is an extension of the sealing tape and completely pull the strip out from the cartridge. Should in the process the sealing tape breaks and a portion of it is left inside the cartridge, then it only means that the cartridge is defective and should therefore be returned to the manufacturer.

Most toner cartridges have a print capacity of around 3,000 pages (based on the industry average of 5% coverage) when properly handled and cared for. Thus when left for some time before installation, the cartridge unit must be stored in a cool, dry place and possibly inside its original packaging. New cartridges are sealed in aluminum foil wrappers that protect toner from exposure to sunlight; while moisture proof to prevent humidity from seeping into toner particles.

Likewise observe the above storage tips when dealing with replacement toner, particularly one supplied with the toner refill kit, to avoid the manifest of print quality defects and the turnout of lower yields. When the printer prompts ‘toner out’, immediately administer toner refills and never allow the cartridge to print on an empty toner chamber because doing so will damage the sensitive imaging component and shorten the effective lifecycle of the cartridge.

Bring Christmas Cheer with Custom Printed Greeting Cards!

The Internet has now become the most indispensable form of communication that encompasses even the dispatch of greetings on special occasions. Despite our dependence on this medium, receiving a custom made greeting card through the mail still puts us on high because such gesture evokes a personal connection and a special bond as well. That is why in this season of giving, sending a Christmas greeting to a dear friend through a courier becomes really important.

Laser printer users can easily get out of their way to convey the Christmas Spirit to friends and relatives alike by printing special greeting cards and enliven the season. And since consumables for color laser printers such as the CP1215 toner cartridge of the HP 1215 laser printer are expensive, users can turn to the aftermarket for compatible toner products like the HP CP1215 toner refill kit to meet the heavy printing load of the coming holidays.

One of the salient features of the HP CP1215 is the printer’s Instant on Technology that reduces significantly the Time To Completion (TTP) of a typical print job. The CP1215, an ENERGY STAR classified laser printer, operates with low power mode and cuts energy consumption by as much as 50%. The Instant on Technology as employed with most HP LaserJet printers has so far helped reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere by about 5.5 million tons – equivalent to taking out over a million cars on our roads. Quite impressive, considering the fact that laser printer owners indirectly pursue environmental preservation in the process of using the printer unit.

Although the bundled cost of CP1215 CMYK toner cartridges is really within reach at $290, yield rating is limited to only about 1,400 pages for the color cartridges and 2,200 pages for the black cartridge at 5% coverage. This sets the cost per page (CPP) to around $0.05 which appears quite pricey still. And during the holidays, spending $870 to meet the 3 cartridge replacements required to complete the necessary print jobs can be quite hefty for the regular user. On the other hand, users who take advantage of compatible consumables such as toner refill kits will only have to spend around $400 for the same requirement. Toner refill kits have been proven tested to stand ‘toe to toe’ with the OEM toner in terms of print quality and yield in printed pages.

Better yet, be the Santa Claus and send 3 bundled packs of toner refill kits and allow your friends to complete their color-printing requirements for the holidays. Well, all these at the expense of your pocket. Giving a gift like the toner refill kit is a fulfilling way to end the year and a refreshing thought to anticipate the coming year.

New LTS Toner Refill Kits

For this post, we are featuring new toner refill kit releases from Laser Tek Services’ line of compatible toner products. This time, LTS makes available toner replacement packages for sophisticated color laser printers, particularly the Xante Ilumina CL30 and Lexmark C910.

The Xante laser printer model is designer oriented while the C910 was built for high volume color printing. Both are single pass laser printers with speeds of 32 and 29 ppm (pages per minute) respectively. Given the profile of the mentioned laser printers, we can only expect users to have a discriminating eye on print quality and likewise particular with the efficient turnover of printed pages.

Think our compatible toners can top those requirements? Better check out our new toner refill kits.

Lexmark C910 Toner Refill Kit


This item is available in CMYK individual packs and a rainbow kit. Individual packs come supplied with a quart size bottle of toner powder, a funnel cap, toner wipes, hand gloves and an illustrated instruction material. The rainbow kit meanwhile is packaged with 4 quart size bottles. The OEM black cartridge retails for over $250 while our toner refill kit can be purchased for only $58.95 for the same rating of 15,000 pages at 5% page coverage. That translates to savings of over 75%.

Visit LTS website for a listing of compatible Lexmark C910 printer models and cartridges.

Black Cyan Magenta Yellow 4 Pack


Xante Ilumina CL30 Glossy Toner Refill Kit

The item is likewise available in individual color packs and a rainbow pack. Individual color packs are supplied with large quart bottles and 4 bottles of the same size for the 4 pack. The OEM black cartridge retails for around $190 while the color cartridges are sold at around $245 a piece. You’ll likely be billed for $925 if you purchase an entire set. Compare that to LTS’ rainbow kit that retails for only $265 and featured with the same yield rating; then you definitely got a big discount.

Visit LTS website for a listing of compatible Xante CL30 printer models and cartridges.

Black Cyan Magenta Yellow 4 Pack

Feature: A Customer Review of the Canon 104 Black Toner Refill Kit

Find below a customer review of our Canon 104 High Yield Black Toner Refill Kit. The author of said review published a comprehensive account of his refill experience and includes a recommended dimension for the refill hole. It's great to read about LTS products being published in other blogs and that users are satisfied with the performance of LTS toner refill kits.

Value is definitely 5 stars.What you receive for the price with this kit is outstanding.The only reason I gave this kit 4 stars vs. 5 is because the directions recommend cutting a 1″ x 1″ square as a refill hole.This is done by heating up the end of a (preferably old) utility knife with a lighter and then cutting the hole by melting your way through the plastic.It’s quite easy actually.What I did was to cut out a 1″ x 1″ square of a label and stick it in place and then cut around it with my utility knife. READ MORE

HP 2600n Color Laser Printer: Why use only specified print media?

Although laser printers can print text and images on almost any type of print media, it is still requires good judgment on the part of the user to follow the guidelines set forth by the printer manufacturer in terms of substrate use. Paper fibers react under varying conditions of temperature, humidity and handling which could result in chronic paper jams; necessitate frequent unit servicing or even trigger printer damage. These are conditions and variables that manufacturer Hewlett Packard has no control of.

Buying the specified print media is like looking for a needle over a pile of haystack, as there are hundreds of transparencies available in the market. Therefore make it a habit to perform test prints over particular print media just to make sure that the substrate conforms to the requirements specified in the user guide and with the HP LaserJet Printer Family Print Media Guide. This is necessary especially when purchasing paper in volume.

Caution is expressed by HP, particularly when using print media that do not meet printer specifications. Use of incompatible substrates can trigger serious printer operation problems and may even lead to the early replacement of printer parts and components. Be aware that printer repairs ensuing from the improper use and handling of print media is not covered by Hewlett-Packard's warranty service agreement.

Print media properties such as weight, composition, grain and moisture content are important factors that would dictate printer performance (print quality) and output yield in pages. Always remember that use of paper other than those specified could result in poor print quality, frequent paper jams and premature wear of printer components. Find a list of OEM specified print media for the HP 2600n laser printer from this link.

Setting aside print media requirements, laser printer users should also be attentive to the printer unit's toner requirements. Like paper, low quality toner will also adversely affect print quality. In the event that the HP toner cartridge dries up, a user can refill its toner supply using compatible toner packaged with a toner refill kit. Toner refill kits have been engineered to produce optimum prints and yield similar to that of the OEM toner.

Recycled Paper: Is this media fit for laser printing?

Let us set aside negative perception towards recycled paper as a trigger to paper jams in the course of laser printing. Technically, media not designed for laser printing (even virgin paper) can be the culprit behind paper jams. The ghost of recycled paper past continues to haunt the paper industry, particularly those manufactured when Muhammad Ali still ruled supreme in the boxing world. Earlier releases of recycled media were of inferior quality and packed with paper dust that harm printer components. Well, the ‘float like a butterfly and sting like a bee' proponent has long been retired. But then papermaking technology improved twenty times over and recycled media already reached a status similar to virgin paper; making both paper types indistinguishable, except for the large red ‘R’ printed across the ream cover.

Several factors have now been identified as the cause of paper jams. And some factors do not even point out to paper quality but rather on the environment that paper is subjected to during storage. Here’s a quick look at pertinent factors:

• Media that are less than 24 gsm in weight are prone to crease easily and tear into pieces; if not scourge during laser printing.
• Paper stored for a long time (3 months or more) amidst a very hot environment has the tendency to be very dry (with less humidity content), wrinkle and tear which causes paper to jam.
• Similarly, when paper is stored amidst a cool, damp environment; it also has the tendency to absorb moisture over and above the recommended humidity content ideal for laser printing. Note that using moisture-laden media reduces the likelihood of paper to resist lateral shear imposed by the printer’s mechanical roller, which causes paper to tear and jam during printing.

The misconception that recycled paper is not suited for laser printing is no longer acceptable because modern papermaking methods have already addressed the factors confounding recycled paper. In fact, only around 10% of recycled paper produced enters the paper supply chain. And since there is no distinguishing mark for recycled paper and virgin paper, it is probable for picky laser printer users to have purchased recycled paper without them knowing about it.

Just like virgin paper, toner adhesion in recycled paper works similar and no visible difference manifests. However when faint prints appear on both paper products, certainly low toner supply is the primary cause. This can be resolved easily by replenishing the cartridge's toner supply with compatible toner supplied with toner refill kits.

Look up our previous posts on recycled paper products.

HP Toolbox - Activate to clean the HP 2600n Color Laser Printer

Print troubles and print quality irregularities are seldom encountered in the first few months run of a laser printer unit. Over time, toner and paper dust will accumulate over printer components such as the OPC drum, fuser assembly and even the mechanical rollers that come in contact with paper. This consequently affects component performance and produce print quality defects (like toner smears) over printouts. The only option therefore is to clean or perform maintenance work over affected components; which is tedious since that would involve dismantling pertinent printer panels to reach the inner cavities of the laser printer.

Maintenance work must be concentrated on the fuser assembly since the component does not have an automatic toner cleaning system. As the fuser generates a lot of heat, some of the toner particles tend to adhere to the fuser rollers and stick permanently, even if the cylindrical surface is coated with Teflon (a non-stick material usually coating frying pans). Consequently, a sizeable mass of toner particles sticking to the rollers can produce toner smears over printouts. Fuser rollers therefore need to be cleaned periodically to sustain acceptable print quality; unlike OPC drums that come outfitted with a cleaning device called the doctor blade. The doctor blade is made of thin and soft polymers that collect excess toner from the drum's surface and deposits it to the waste toner chamber of the toner cartridge.

Users of the HP 2600n color laser printer are fortunate because the printer unit comes with a built-in cleaning system that can be activated right on the printer's control panel. The cleaning procedure is outlined as follows:

1. Turn on the laser printer and be sure that it is set to ready mode.
2. Open the HP Toolbox from the printer's control panel
3. When the troubleshooting tab appears, click maintenance and follow it up by pushing the cleaning page icon. The printer will then print a document with printed pattern.
4. Remove all loaded print media in tray 2 and from the optional tray 3.
5. Take out the printed media with pattern and position it face down into the paper tray 2 or the optional paper tray 3.
6. Lastly, press clean on the printer panel
   

The whole sequence should clear the fuser assembly of baked toner and paper dust, and produce smear free printouts.

Print defects are the fare of laser printers and they are numerous. But when print irregularities are due to a low toner supply or an empty OEM toner cartridge, replenish the cartridge's supply with a compatible toner refill kit and extend its print capacity for up to 3 print cycles.

Look up our previous posts on the HP 2600n laser printer.

Brother Toner Cartridges: Reset Gear Versus Reset Chip

Brother Industrial Corporation (BIC) is perhaps the only printer manufacturer that does not implement the ‘razor and razor blades’ mentality in the design of printer peripherals. In fact, BIC encourages refills on its toner cartridges and even provides users with step-by-step remanufacturing guidelines to extend a cartridge unit's capacity to over 3 print cycles. Moreover, BIC retained the reset gears in the design of their cartridges - in lieu of the more sophisticated microchips. This would allow users of Brother cartridges to simply adjust the reset gears to its starting position each time a refill is performed, which by the way reactivates the toner cartridge.

If reset chips are designed to control the printing process based on the number of printed pages, how does BIC implement this with the reset gear?

While cartridge yield is determined from the number of pages printed under a particular page coverage; calculation is based on the actual revolutions per minute (RPM) of the developer roller. For the Brother high yield black cartridge series, the maximum life of the developer roller is 110,000 revolutions or equivalent to 6,000 pages - at 18.5 revolutions necessary to complete the printing of a single page. Users can actually convert a high yield cartridge such as the TN-115 to a low yield TN 110 toner cartridge or vice versa, since only the reset gear controls the lifecycle of the Brother toner cartridge.

BIC’s laboratory tests confirm that the Brother HL 4040cn laser printer can detect if a new cartridge has been loaded; where the bias voltage is automatically set to high because of the tendency of new toner to print light. But as the cartridge is used regularly, density also increases. And to sustain this level all throughout the life of the cartridge, the density bias voltage is reduced accordingly. While users of non-Brother cartridges complain of how reset chips would desist printing while the cartridge still has sufficient toner supply, BIC can however assure its users that Brother reset gears will only respond when toner supply is really low or totally depleted.

Brother compatible reset gears (a.ka. flag gears) intended for starter cartridges are also available with Laser Tek Services. The flag gear resets the printer and eliminates the "Toner End Life" prompt so that a new cartridge cycle can commence.

Understanding the HP 2600 "Cartridge Out Override" Function

Like most laser printers, the cartridges of the HP 2600cn laser printer is outfitted with a microchip that communicates the toner supply status of the consumable. In turn, the printer is able to prompt the user whenever the cartridge is low on toner; to consequently desist printing once toner supply is depleted. But in most cases, at least 20% of toner supply still lingers inside the cartridge's toner hopper when printing altogether stopped. This gives users the wrong impression! What if this were a scheme intended by OEMs to fast track the repurchase of a new cartridge? In this case, users are advised to pull out the cartridge from the printer and shake it vigorously so that clumped toner inside the chamber cavities is released and a few more pages can be squeezed out from the cartridge.

Well, we can always point an accusing finger to printer manufacturers. But the truth is that this could just be a sensor error wherein the ‘toner out’ prompt is routinely issued by the unit. Sensors are sensitive electronic devices directed towards a cartridge window that monitors toner supply. And once toner can no longer be detected, the "'toner out' prompt is thereafter displayed.

This troubleshooting technique is however not necessary with the HP 2600 laser printer. The printer is equipped with a ‘cartridge out override function’ that can be accessed through the control panel. Therefore when the ‘order supplies’ message is prompted, pressing the ‘cartridge out override’ button will deactivate the message and consequently, printing will commence. The ‘order supplies’ prompt informs the user that toner supply is running low and the succeeding pages could likely result in questionable prints as pointed out by the printer's service manual. This benefits the user as extra caution can now be observed in the printout of ensuing documents. The moment any print defect manifests, printing is immediately discontinued to thus avoid wasting paper in the process. To commence with print jobs, the user either replaces the cartridge orrefills its toner chamber with fresh toner supply.using a compatible toner refill kit.

If the HP Q6000A OEM toner cartridge is cost restrictive at $75, the user can choose do-it-yourself refill consumables to save on printing costs. The HP 2600 toner refill kit is sold online for only $30 and delivers print quality and yield of 2,500 pages at 5% coverage; similar to what the OEM toner can deliver.

From Commercial Printers to Laser Printers

It took 60 days to print a single book in 1456.
Today, it would take less than 60 minutes to do just that.

Although the Chinese and Koreans have carried out some form of printing technology called the moveable wood blocks technique in the early 13th century, it was in 1456 that the Western World saw a more progressive printing technology. The pioneer who made it all possible was Johann Gutenberg, a jeweler who crafted a metal alloy that allows the casting of individual letters. The mirror images of the letters are grouped together into a matrix to produce a single page. The whole arrangement of letters is then applied with ink, and then paper is pressed against it. Gutenberg started his printing business by redesigning a winepress and turned it into the first printing press. And the first books that came out were 200 copies of the Holy Bible.

Six Hundred years later, printing has progressed several notches higher particularly with the development of laser printers. Printing could no longer be singled out to large printing presses of the type operating in Gutenberg’s time. Instead, the task of printing has been delegated with offices and even households through laser printers and inkjet printers. Thanks to the advent of desktop publishing; now with just a push of a few control panel buttons of a laser printer, an office personnel can produce hard copies of documents saved in the hard disk of a personal computer or laptop.

A typical example of a trusty color laser printer is the OKIDATA 3000 series that loads with a toner cartridge accessory to produce its fine prints. Instead of liquid ink as employed with inkjet printers, toner powder is loaded into cartridge cavities which in turn supplies toner during printing. This technology has therefore made printing so simple. At the onset, offset printers would charge exorbitant fees to produce several hundreds of documents. But then this is understandable considering all the requirements needed to initiate the printing process. Producing the final print of the document is not really intricate per se. And that is why the cost per page (CPP) for print jobs drops with every increase in copy requirement. But then again, this is hardly felt in laser printing since a single toner cartridge may have a rating of say over 3,000 pages that reduces CPP dramatically - even lower than the CPP of large offset printers. Whether an office requires 100 or 1000 printed pages, the CPP is therefore sustained. The OEM toner cartridge for the OKIDATA 3000 series costs $80, but given its yield of 3,000 pages at 5% coverage, the CPP should be affordable.

A growing number of laser printer users nowadays prefer to refill empty toner cartridges with the use of compatible toner supplied with third party manufactured consumables such as the Okidata C300 toner refill kit. Retailed for only $26.95, the cost of printing will definitely be reduced at this rate. Since no considerable difference in terms of print quality and yield is apparent between the OEM toner and compatible toner, using a refill kit is a practical option.

HP 2600 Toner Cartridges - How a defective developer roller can affect the integrity of printouts?

Light prints and/or banding in printouts can only develop from defective OEM toner cartridges. Said print irregularity is even more profound with the toner cartridges of the HP 2600 laser printer. As the print cycle slowly reaches the end of its term and toner supply is close to exhaustion, the developer roller likely wears out which makes the component less effective in the even distribution of toner powder on the surface of the OPC drum.

All toner cartridges similar in design to the Q6000A, Q60001A, Q60002A and Q60003A cartridges (loads the HP 1600, 2600, 2600N and 2605 printer series) are outfitted with developer rollers. Said component is manufactured with precise tolerances because any minor deformity (like a curved roller) affects toner distribution and consequently print quality of output.

The developer roller is coated with a special surface finish intended to withstand abrasive surface friction, as it moves in sync with the OPC Drum in the course of supplying toner. Remember that this action is not limited to 3 or 4 times, but is repeated several thousand times in the process of printing. Surface tolerance between the developer roller and OPC Drum must be maintained at all times to produce acceptable print quality.

The developer roller is a critical component since worn out surfaces cannot be detected upon troubleshooting and only manifest over printouts. Therefore, most cartridge remanufacturers put premium on the replacement of developer rollers, just to ascertain that print defects will not transpire after the cartridge is refilled with toner. Remember that a substantial amount of toner will not be able to reactivate a defective toner cartridge.

HP 2600 toner cartridges are not designed for the conduct of toner refills. Therefore, once the developer roller wears out, the cartridge has to be replaced with a brand new unit. However, if print quality is still acceptable at the time the unit runs out of toner supply, then this only indicates that the developer roller is still in fine form and the user can administer refills on the cartridge.

The print capacity of the Q6000A cartridge for instance is pegged at 2,500 pages at 5% coverage and conducting 3 refills on the unit increases its capacity to 10,000 pages. Conducting refills on a cartridge with a still functional developer roller is the most sensible option as an OEM replacement costs $75 while a compatible toner refill kit is sold online for only $30. Moreover, users gets the same print quality and yield expected from an OEM toner.

HP 2600n - Know the Laser Printer’s Energy Operating Costs

The HP 2600n LaserJet desktop printer is probably one of the most energy efficient laser printers now in use with households and offices. While most desktop printers consume over 700 watts of energy when in full printing mode, the HP 2600n operates only at a rate of 190 watts whether producing monochrome or color prints. Moreover, the printer unit consumes only 16 watts of energy in standby mode and zero energy is utilized during sleep mode. However, the computation of actual energy consumption for the HP 2600 remains as a puzzle to geeks since energy expended is reckoned based on how the laser printer is used during a pre-set time period. Laser printer operation fluctuates from high-peak periods to periods of inactivity, which is punctuated only by the daily printing load.

The laser printer is not like the metal halide flood lamps used in sports arenas since power consumption is constant for the entire duration of the game. Say each lamp is rated at 340 watts and that around 1000 lamps are utilized to light up the arena, the lamps will consume as much as 340 kilowatts per hour and within an 8-hour period the average consumption is 2,720 kilowatts of energy. And if the venue is New York City, the cost to light up the sports arena would likely be around $400. Now let us assume that the HP 2600 laser printer will be in constant operation during an 8-hour work period so that the average consumption will be 1.52 kilowatt or roughly $0.23 for the entire day of printing, around $6.84 for the entire month and $80 at years end. Certainly the cost will be lower since the laser printer encounters brief periods of inactivity as the unit switches automatically to standby mode and eventually to sleep mode following the run of print jobs.

When it comes to energy consumption, the HP 2600n is a power miser, and the design of the replacement Q6000A black toner cartridge is also patterned after the printer’s energy saving specifications. Color printing is really expensive. The monochrome replacement cartridge for the HP 2600n is retailed at $70 and pricing is similar for the 3 other color cartridges. The monochrome cartridge comes with a yield rating of 2,500 pages at 5% page coverage while the remaining cartridges are rated at 2,000 pages.

However consumers can reduce color-printing expenditure by refilling empty toner cartridges with compatible toner. Compatible toner for the Q6000A comes packaged with the HP 2600 toner refill kit. The third party consumable is sold online for only $23 but then again, the cartridges refilled with its supply toner can deliver OEM quality prints and yield.