Toner cartridges are complicated things. You think they’re just a cartridge that will run out of toner and stop working, but towards the end of their life cycles they can do strange things. Like leaving weird blotches of toner on your paper. There are a lot of moving parts in a printer: toner cartridge, drum …
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You’ve just changed the toner cartridge and you’re ready to print a big job. You go to the printer and the paper is jamming. How frustrating! It’s probably not your cartridge. There are usually two reasons why your paper is jamming. Sometimes there is a tiny piece of paper stuck in the paper path of …
There are usually two ways you find out that your new laser printer requires a separate drum unit. You change the toner cartridge and realize there is another big piece of plastic that the toner cartridge sits in. Or you get an alert on your printer to replace the drum unit. What is a drum …
Inkjet (or DeskJet) printers and Laser (or LaserJet) printers have very different methods of printing. Laser printers use toner power in toner cartridges. Laser and heat are used to bond toner powder to the printed paper. An inkjet printer uses liquid ink in inkjet cartridges. The liquid ink is sprayed through nozzles onto the printed …
It’s really useful to have a colour laser printer. You never know when printing something with a bit of colour will be necessary to understand the document. Highlighting text, using different font colours are all helpful additions. But this means you’ll need to buy colour cartridges as well as black cartridges. Colour toner cartridges are …
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You have just installed a new toner cartridge (that you bought from ETB, of course). The printed pages are coming out darker than the last toner cartridge. It’s strange that your prints are dark. It looks like this new cartridge is putting more toner on the page than the last toner cartridge. Why on earth …
Some offices print very little, some offices print so much that the printers are always working! Regardless of the type of office you’re working in, if you are working on a project that requires a lot of draft printing, there are often ways you can decrease the amount of toner the printer uses on each …
You need to print those last few reports before the big meeting. You’re rushing, you just want to go home. You go to pick up your prints and there’s an alert on the printer that says the toner is low. It’s late. You’re tired. You won’t have time to order a new cartridge before the …
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