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| Thread ID: 126335 | 2012-08-21 08:49:00 | Swapping Brother Laser toner cartridges - OK ? | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1295973 | 2012-08-22 22:17:00 | I've never had much success with toner cart refiles. They last a couple of months then start to dump lots of toner on the page or it goes blotchy. Only use new toner carts when the old ones are completely empty but use refilled inkjet carts.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1295974 | 2012-08-22 23:02:00 | Yep, remanufactured toner carts and laser fuser's are NEVER as reliable as a new one (in general), the cheapies are particularly bad. They dont all fail, just fail more often than new. Some brands are simply to hard to remaunfacture/refill reliably. Some of the chinese remaned toner carts Ive seem are shockers. Inkjet carts seem to be really unreliable,I'm running at a 50% fail rate on the ones Ive bought. I'll just keep buying them as they are so cheap. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1295975 | 2012-08-23 03:21:00 | I am thinking of buying a new toner cartridge and then filling it myself a couple of times and then biffing it before it wears out. If you buy a refilled one from a shop, you do not know how many times it has been re-filled. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1295976 | 2012-08-23 05:41:00 | I am thinking of buying a new toner cartridge and then filling it myself a couple of times and then biffing it before it wears out. If you buy a refilled one from a shop, you do not know how many times it has been re-filled. I've done this successfully with some Brother toner carts. Have an empty one lying around and when the one you use goes faulty put that tone in the empty good one. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1295977 | 2012-08-23 06:32:00 | And I've seen a couple of Youtube videos, where they say one of the key things to do is to vacuum out all of the old toner first. | Digby (677) | ||
| 1295978 | 2012-08-23 06:57:00 | And I've seen a couple of Youtube videos, where they say one of the key things to do is to vacuum out all of the old toner first. Before you do that, you might want to read this: www.repairfaq.org |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1295979 | 2012-08-23 21:59:00 | @Agent 24 Thanks for that I just read the article. I was going to do it outside. I'd rather not have to vacuum the toner out. So what is the answer ? Get manufacturers to put the prince of printers up and toner carts down ? Make the manufacturers make easy refillable cartridges ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1295980 | 2012-08-23 22:38:00 | Before you do that, you might want to read this: www.repairfaq.org Thats more BS unfortunately. (I used to do this as a job) :thumbs: However, the toner will probhably go straight through a household vac, & into the motor & out into your room. We initailly did used to just use ordinary vac's, I never got any shocks,in 3 years. However I often had to rebuild the vac & some toner just came out the other end of the vac. Its an aweful, dirty job. Toner is very fine & hard to clean up. (imagine black talc or soot & you'll get the idea of what its like) How its done depends on if its a all in 1 cart, or separate toner & drum. If you DIY, dont be to surprised it it turn's into a disaster (some carts are dead easy though) Some carts can simply be filled by pouring new toner in. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1295981 | 2012-08-24 02:12:00 | Yes that article struck me as a bit like those idiots saying that fracking causes earthquakes ? How many houses have blown up due to toner filling ? I can imagine the toner may kill a vacuum cleaner. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1295982 | 2012-08-24 10:15:00 | My own, limited experience with laser printers, starting from the oldest to newest models used: OKI: Lousy paper feed. This thing would regularly drag 2 or more sheets and jamb... decade or more ago. No longer made I think. BROTHER: Lousy Drum / Cart issues with loads of toner spill within the machine, and grey pages. The humidity here is cited as a culprit, however the HP has never had a problem like that. HP: One baked it's roller which was beside the fuser, and was killed by a staff member thinking the wrinkled layer on the roller was trapped paper, and picked it out bit-by-bit (it couldn't grip the paper without the layer). The replacement has been totally sweet. No feed issues, no toner or print issues, and years of pretty heavy use. My recommendation 100% HP. With the Brother we clean it, replace the drum, and the print out is still grey. We replace the cart, and the printout is still grey. These things have just consumed consumables and continue to give sh1++y service. Cleaning the contacts and fuser wire achieve nothing. Best place for a Brother laser is in the box, still in the warehouse, unsold. Next best place is the tip. I've used many at work, and have disliked them all. |
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