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If you’ve ever investigated the possibility of refilling your toner cartridges, you’ll probably have come across information warning against compatible toner quality.   In some cases they’re absolutely correct, occasionally you’ll find a company that just sells low grade toner refills just to make a quick buck.    But I can assure you that they are more the exception than the rule, after all it doesn’t make much sense as a business model.   The firms who sell printer toner refills, have in a way the same vested interest as the printer manufacturers.

Compatible Toner Quality Problems
Imagine you’ve set up your business to supply people and companies with compatible toner for them to refill their cartridges over and over. Customer will save so much money each time they do it that they’re bound to keep coming back for more. The costs will have to be significantly lower than the brand refills obviously but if the toner is of the same quality, there are no real issues.

Why try and make a few pennies by sending out inferior toner, you’ll get angry customers, no repeat business and lots of stress. The vast majority of companies in this line are very green minded and want to provide a good eco friendly service.

Take the Risk

Seriously have a look around, try and find some recommendations, ask a few questions of the supplier. The cost and environmental savings are so large it’s worth taking a risk. Even if you are really unlucky and get poor quality toner refills it won’t have cost very much. You can even put the cartridge away for when you need to do a big print run when quality is not that important.

Seriously in most situations where I have used toner refills in many, many printers the results have been indistinguishable from the brand toner refills. The average savings of about 80% make it a real boon in these days of rising prices.

I generally only use the one firm when I am buying compatible toner refills, of course if you’re in teh US it’s probably not worth using them – but use their checker tool to see if your printer can be refillled easily – you can find it here

You can then try and find a company nearer home, if anyone has any real experience of such companies outside the UK then I’d be really interested to hear about them.

Yes, its easy to fill this. Theres free refill instructions at www.uni-kit.com/support.htm
Notice that there are different instructions for the C7115a and the C7115x. The “a” is a low capacity cartridge, and the “x” is a high capacity cartridge.
You need a hole making tool, and the right toner. Uni-Kit #1 toner is designed for this machine and others.

Will the image on the t-shirt fabric fade when washed? I’ve only tried printing using my inkjet printer and transfer paper. Now, I’m planning to put ink refills on my printer since cartridges are expensive.

I just purchased a Samsung SCX-4521F MFP Laser. At the moment the toner is fine but i want to get ready to replace the toner when it begins to run out.
On ebay.ca there is mention of:
65 grams toner refill kits + reset fuse for the model of for $5CDN (+$5 shipping). This sounds interesting tho I have no idea of 65 grams is enough to refill the toner cart and what the heck is a reset fuse?
Thanks

I have a HP laserjet 2600 printer. I like the printer a lot but new cartridges are extremely expensive.