Printers, Toner, replacements ... what do you do?

[DeonH]

Hi there.

I'm having a battle with myself.

I have a HP Colour Laser CP1215 printer which I am very happy and satisfied with. Except, when I have to buy new toner.
We bought the printer just under a year ago after I had to fork out almost R3 500.00 for 4 new toner cartridges. It was cheaper to buy a new printer with toner than to buy new toner.

Now I am having this very same discussion with myself.
What are you doing? New toner or new printer. To replace all 4 cartridges, will cost me R2 650.00. Is it not better, once again, to buy a newer printer? This printer's younger version will cost me R2 600,00 and it has 4 new cartridges:
http://www.comx.co.za/computer-store-specifications.php?products=21636

I will really appreciate your advice.

Regards,
Deon

 

[killadoob]

I think the toner that comes with the hp printer is not as full as the new toners you buy, i may be wrong but it makes sense to me. Surely hp are not stupid and do not want people buying a new printer everytime. They make their money on toner not printer sales surely? Well the bulk of their money i would imagine.

Ever had a look at these okes who sell toners cheaper? Seems like a good idea even though Hp don't recommend it. I would also not recommend it if meant lost business though

 

[Leostar]

IMHO no brainer?? Save R50.0 and get a brand new printer? Go for new printer with a guarantee as well.

 

[P924]

My HP 1020 definitely comes with a full cartridge, I bought an extracartridge that came out of another printers box, both did 2500 pages while advertised yield was 2000 pages.

 

[J0n0]

New machines don't come with full toners... That page yield you mention is at 5% coverage so you must have been printing pages with one sentence on them, if that much.

 

[P924]

I print lots of books, so no not only one sentence. 5% is quite a lot of text. not as much images... Try cartridge hyper, or huge printing consumables (although they have k@k service IME) and get a price on generic cartridges, they usually give the same performance at 40% the price...

I bought refill toner from hong kong for ~R60. Would not suggest going that route, refilling toner is a buggerup...

 

[PallBearer]

new printers come with 25% filled cartridges.

I sell all my cartridges and the guy that collect can see a "new printer" cartridge compared to a off the shelf toner and he wont take them as all, as he can't fill them to the brim, apparently thier capacity is alot smaller than off the shelf stuff.

I have several Hp 1100 and the cartridges are costing up to R900 now, so i rather toss and get a new P1005 for R1200 and then the following month the new toners are only R500, so it's cheaper in the long run.

 

[J0n0]

I print lots of books, so no not only one sentence. 5% is quite a lot of text. not as much images... Try cartridge hyper, or huge printing consumables (although they have k@k service IME) and get a price on generic cartridges, they usually give the same performance at 40% the price...

I bought refill toner from hong kong for ~R60. Would not suggest going that route, refilling toner is a buggerup...

Maybe we should meet up and I show you nicely how you work out 5% coverage of a page. 5% is not a lot of text. I know, been in this industry long enough and I work with a guy that has close to 30 years experience. There's no way in this world that you got 2000 pages printed full text full quality. And printing books on a 1020 is uneconomical and stupid. That alone tells me you're the kind that think you're saving yourself a lot by buying a cheapie printer and expecting it to do what the big machines do. Not very clever im afraid.