What's the difference between the standard and high-yield toner cartridges for laser printers? It is just the quantity of toner inside or is there another underlying factor? AND…. if I refill my own what kind of life can I expect from a refilled toner cartridge? Is it similar to ink jets where they deteriorate after 4-6 refills or do they last longer?
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Usually a “high yield” cartridge is one that has more ink or toner it in so that it last longer. As the shipping and handling usually cost more than the making, they have the ability to ship a cartridge that last twice as long cheaper than they have the ability to sell you two standard ones.
Without knowing which cartridge you are wanting to refill, the question can not be answers. But my history with refilled cartridges is that they give you more trouble then the amount of money they save.
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Depending on what type of laser jet printer you’ve, the cartridge is more than just a container of toner:
- All toner cartridges have a developer roller; basically a rubber roller that feeds the toner towards the drum. This roller will degrade slowly like all objects made from rubber do.
- More important, some cartridges have a build in drum. This is a green, light sensitive cylinder on which the actual image is formed during the printing process. This drum can only be charged and discharged a certain amount of times before print quality starts to suffer. Manufacturers of toner cartridges will choose the circumference of the drum to match the amount of toner in the cartridge during normal use. If you keep refilling the toner without ever changing the drum? And no, you can't change the drum cylinder yourself. Usually, at the first refill the difference in quality already shows
- Finally, refills have a higher chance of leaking. If an original cartridge leaked, the manufacturer will offer full warranty (new cartridge, cleaning of the printer, or whatever it takes to get you going again). If you used a refill, though luck! And on that note, toner powder particles are about 5 times smaller than normal dust particles. If you try cleaning it up with a regular household vacuum cleaner, chances are the toner will be blown out uninterrupted from the other end.
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Hi
The correct answer is a normal cartridge installed in a new printer yields less paper because they want to make sure you return to the store and buy more cartrdiges for your printer.
That is where the money is just like gas and a automobile. The higher yielding cartridge print about 5000 pages whereas the standard one , print approx. 2000 if you’re lucky.
If you refill them yourself, the life expectancy of the drum itself is about 15 to 20,000 copies. After that, the drum is useless.