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Choose the right toner cartridge for your laser printer
On the other hand, we recommend you to select OEM cartridges if you have high expectations on the printing results and primarily print in full color. For example, if you are a graphics designer producing samples of your work to show clients, you should probably buy a genuine inkjet cartridge. This will give you the best chance of producing high quality graphics prints. Besides, you are not price sensitive. Please also remember that the quality of the compatible ink or toner please remember that it is not the only factor affecting the print quality. The capabilities of the printer and the quality of the printing paper also have significant impact on the end printing results.
What about remanufactured toner cartridge?
Huge savings can also be done on printer cartridge costs by buying remanufactured cartridges instead of OEM ink cartridges. Remanufactured cartridges are together with compatible ink cartridges the cheapest alternative to go with. Besides, when buying remanufactured ink cartridges you support the reuse of cartridge parts for environmental sustainability. If you are interested in reading more about the environmental benefits of using recycled printer cartridges, read our Toner Cartridge Recycling Guide! Some printer manufacturers, like Lexmark, even have a prebate recycling program for used-up printer cartridges. Read our Return Program Toner Cartridges to learn more about having a significant discount of toner cartridges.
Should I buy a low yield or a high yield toner cartridge?
The high yield inkjet cartridges are obviously more expensive but are cheaper on a page yield basis. Your choice will depend on the number of pages you expect to print per year and the expected coverage of toner per page. The rated capacity of a toner cartridge is based on 5% coverage of toner on a Letter or A4 page. If your coverage is 10%, you will use twice as much toner and get half as many printed pages. Cartridges do deteriorate over time, usually of 2-year shelf life. You should choose a cartridge that will last you two years or less; if you do not do much printing, buy a low yield cartridge.
What Are The Differences Between OEM And Compatible Printer Cartridges?
OEM cartridge stands for original equipment manufacturer cartridge. An OEM cartridge is an original cartridge manufactured by the original brand manufacturer. An OEM cartridge comes in almost all the brands like HP, Dell, Canon, Lexmark, Epson, Brother, etc. The printing quality of these cartridges is the best as they are the original ones manufactured under their brand names.
A compatible cartridge, on the other hand, is the one which is not manufactured by the original manufacturer. These cartridges may be remanufactured ones or new cartridge. They work the same way as original OEM cartridge. Their quality of print is the same or even better than the original cartridge. The special feature of these cartridges is that they are priced at relatively lower prices and that the reason these cartridges have become popular among consumers. Buying compatible cartridges can be very much advantageous than buying a OEM cartridge.
OEM cartridges are priced normally. On the other hand, compatible cartridges are priced at almost one-third of half the price of the original OEM cartridge. Purchasing a compatible cartridge is much cheaper than purchasing an OEM cartridge. This makes you save money which you can spend on buying an additional compatible cartridge.
The cartridges that we buy should be well compatible with the printer you have. Almost all the printers are compatible to compatible printer cartridges. There are very few printers which are not compatible with these cartridges. If the cartridge is not compatible to the printers, then you may run into loss as the cartridge you purchased will not work with your printer and will go into waste. While, on the other hand, OEM cartridges are also compatible to all the printers.
As it is said, recycle and remanufacture in order to make the environment safe. Compatible cartridges are remanufactured cartridges which does not let the used cartridges go into waste and re-uses them thereby adding to the healthy environment. By purchasing compatible cartridges, we help reduce the amount of solid waste getting disposed off into landfills.
Compatible printer cartridges print an equal or even more number of pages than an OEM cartridge. This happens because most of the time, OEM cartridges are not filled to capacity. A compatible cartridge, therefore, offers the customer a two-fold advantage, both reducing the cost per page and per cartridge.
Compatible printer cartridges do not void the warranty of your printer. Most of the consumers are under the impression that using a compatible cartridge would void the warranty of the computer. Although this is not true….. Using a compatible printer cartridge never voids the warranty of your printer.
Many of the retailers or superstores offer various discounts and discount coupons on compatible cartridges. As these compatible cartridges are not manufactured by the original manufacturer, they are offered on a range of discounts by the retailers and other superstores. The original OEM cartridges do not necessarily be on sale for discounts. The original OEM cartridges are manufactured by the original brand names which are expensive. So , OEM cartridges may or may not be with discounts.
OEM cartridges are manufactured by their original manufacturers. So they would be available readily with their brand manufacturers while compatible cartridges are manufactured by other manufacturers, so they would be available with other retailers and superstores.