You’re used to your printer telling you to change the toner cartridge, and every once and a while it’ll tell you to change the drum unit. But now you’re getting an alert to change the maintenance kit. What is a maintenance kit? Depending on the make and model of your printer, your printer manufacturer will …
First of all, what is a drum unit? The toner cartridge has all the toner powder in it, why do you need a drum unit? The drum is responsible for fusing the toner powder onto the paper. The fuser is also involved, but that’s a separate post 😊 But how often do you need to …
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You’ve just replaced your toner cartridge and notice that there is loose toner inside your printer. Don’t panic. Most likely your prints are still coming out looking great. Toner is a very fine powder that can escape the cartridge when you pull the seal. Some toner can also come out of the cartridge when you …
It’s rare, but sometimes you’ll find regular dots or marks down your paper after printing. Cleaning the printer doesn’t fix it. You can see it on test prints too. This usually means that the drum was damaged during shipping or installation. There’s a “ding” or dent on your drum that is holding toner and causing …
You might need to buy a special toner cartridge just for printing company cheques. This special cartridge is called a MICR toner cartridge. MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. MICR toner cartridges have a special type of magnetic toner that is required by banking institutions to print cheques. If you have the choice between …
Sometimes towards the end of your cartridge’s lifespan, you get black lines on one or both sides of the paper. This is often caused by the coating wearing off of the drum at the end of it’s cycle. When this happens, toner builds up on the metal of the drum and goes onto the pages …
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If your prints seem to be lighter since changing your cartridge then try adjusting the toner density setting for your printer. Every printer is slightly different. Sometimes this is in the menu on the printer, sometimes you can do this from your computer from the printer properties window (usually the advanced menu). You may have …
If you have one of these Lexmark printers: MS310, MS310d, MS310dn, MS312dn, MS315dn, MS410d, MS410dn, MS415dn, MS510dn, MS610de, MS610dn, MS610dte, MS610dtn then you need to use the 50F1H00 (or 501H) toner in your printer. The 50F1H00 has a page yield of 5,000 pages. The Lexmark printers have a separate imaging unit. An imaging unit is …
If you have one of these Brother printers: HL-2132, HL-2220, HL-2230, HL-2240, HL-2240D, HL-2242, HL-2242D, HL-2250, HL-2250D, HL-2270, HL-2270W, HL-2270DW, HL-2275DW, HL-2280, HL-2280DW, MFC-7240, MFC-7260, MFC-7360N, MFC-7460, MFC-7460DN, MFC-7860, MFC-7860DW, DCP-7060, DCP-7060D, DCP-7065, DCP-7065DN, IntelliFax-2840, IntelliFax-2940 then you need to use the TN450 toner in your printer. We recommend the TN450 because it is a …
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If you have one of these HP printers: Colour LaserJet Enterprise M455dn, Colour LaserJet Enterprise MFP M480f, Colour LaserJet Pro M454dn, M454dw, Colour LaserJet Pro MFP M479fdw, M479fdn, M479fdw, we recommend the W2020X (or 414X) series of cartridges because they are high yield cartridges. The black (W2020X) cartridge has a page yield of 7,500 pages, …
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If your toner cartridge is leaking or leaving toner splotches on the page when you first put it into the printer, most of the time this was caused by the cartridge being dropped during the shipping process. If this has happened when you first put the cartridge into the printer, get in touch with us! …
If you have one of these Brother printers: DCP-L5500DN, DCP-L5600DN, DCP-L5650DN, HL-L5000D, HL-L5100DN, HL-L5200DW, HL-L5200DWT, HL-L6200DW, HL-L6200DWT, HL-L6250DW, HL-L6300DW, HL-L6400DW, HL-L6400DWT, MFC-L5700DW, MFC-L5800DW, MFC-L5850DW, MFC-L5900DW, MFC-L6700DW, MFC-L6750DW, MFC-L6800DW, MFC-L6900DW then you need to use the TN850 toner in your printer. We recommend the TN850 because it is a high yield cartridge and has a page …
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If you have one of these printers: LaserJet Enterprise 500 MFP M525dn, LaserJet Enterprise MFP M525f, LaserJet Enterprise Flow MFP M525c, LaserJet Enterprise P3010, LaserJet Enterprise P3015, LaserJet Enterprise P3015d, LaserJet Enterprise P3015dn, LaserJet Enterprise P3015n, LaserJet Enterprise P3015x, LaserJet Pro MFP M521dn then you need to use the CE255X toner cartridge in your printer. …
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If you have one of these HP printers: HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401dn, LaserJet Pro 400 M401dne, LaserJet Pro 400 M401dw, LaserJet Pro 400 M401n, LaserJet Pro 400 MFP M425dn, LaserJet Pro 400 MFP M425dw then you need to use the CF280X toner cartridge in your printer. We recommend the CF280X because it is a …
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If you have one of these HP printers: Laserjet Pro M402d, Laserjet Pro M402dn, Laserjet Pro M402n, Laserjet Pro MFP M426dw, Laserjet Pro MFP M426fdn, Laserjet Pro MFP M426Fdw, imageCLASS LBP214dw, imageCLASS LBP215dw, imageCLASS MF424dw, imageCLASS MF426dw, imageCLASS MF429dw then you need to use the CF226X toner cartridge in your printer. (Yes, sometimes all the …
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If you have one of these Brother printers: HL-L2300D, HL-L2320D, HL-L2340DW, HL-L2360DN, HL-L2360DW, HL-L2365DW, HL-L2380DW, DCP-L2500D, DCP-L2520DW, DCP-L2540DN, DCP-L2540DW, MFC-L2700DW, MFC-L2720DW, MFC-L2740DW then you need to use the Brother TN660 toner in your printer. (Yes, sometimes all the letters at the end of your printer model do make a difference when it comes to what …
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If you have one of these Brother printers: DCP-L2550DW, HL-L2350DW, HL-L2370DW, HL-L2370DWXL, HL-L2390DW, HL-L2395DW, MFC-L2710DW, MFC-L2730DW, MFC-L2750DW, MFC-L2750DWXL then you need to use the Brother TN760 toner in your printer. (Yes, sometimes all the letters at the end of your printer model do make a difference when it comes to what toner cartridge to use, …
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For a lot of laser printers you have the option of purchasing a standard yield or high yield cartridge. Different companies use different naming conventions for their cartridges, which can be confusing. For HP printers, the cartridge model ends in an A for standard yield, or X for high yield. For Brother printers, the cartridge …
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For some printers, when you buy a toner cartridge, you have the option of buying a standard yield cartridge or a high yield cartridge. The high yield cartridge will print more pages. But sometimes, the cartridge make and model you always buy will print fewer pages than it usually does. There’s a simple explanation for …
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You’re used to your printer telling you to change the toner cartridge, and every once and a while it’ll tell you to change the drum unit. But now you’re getting an alert to change the fuser. What is the printer fuser? Laser printers are complicated pieces of equipment. You think it’s just toner being put …
