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Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges

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Subject: Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges
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by: David - Sat, 9 Jul 2022 12:34 UTC

My HP colour laser printer is running out of black.

I couldn't remember quite what I did in October 2018 so I now have to hunt
through and see if I changed all the (small original) cartridges or if
there is anything left in anything.

Possibly I swapped out everything and held the partly used ones as spare;
I have a vague memory of running out of blue because of all the blue
themed documents I printed.

The printer certainly filled its remit of occasional large double sided
print runs and long periods of no printing without gumming up (as previous
inkjets did).

I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are because
they were not direct from HP (which would have cost significantly more
than the printer).

The immediate decision, I think, if should I just buy black or should I go
for the full kit?

So long since I had to do anything that I've taken the printer for granted
and will have to relearn how to fettle it.

Cheers

Dave R

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by: Andy Burns - Sat, 9 Jul 2022 12:46 UTC

David wrote:

> I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are

If the printer is ethernet connected, it will almost certainly have a web page
telling you that, otherwise trawl through the front-panel menu to find how to
print a status sheet that will tell you ...

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by: David - Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:14 UTC

On Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:46:27 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

> David wrote:
>
>> I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are
>
> If the printer is ethernet connected, it will almost certainly have a
> web page telling you that, otherwise trawl through the front-panel menu
> to find how to print a status sheet that will tell you ...

Control panel and printed status report say there is still toner left.
However there are faint patches over part of the black printout.

I have tried gently shaking the toner cartridge but this doesn't seem to
have improved things much, if at all.

Cheers

Dave R

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by: Adrian Caspersz - Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:03 UTC

On 13/07/2022 16:14, David wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:46:27 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> David wrote:
>>
>>> I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are
>>
>> If the printer is ethernet connected, it will almost certainly have a
>> web page telling you that, otherwise trawl through the front-panel menu
>> to find how to print a status sheet that will tell you ...
>
> Control panel and printed status report say there is still toner left.
> However there are faint patches over part of the black printout.
>
> I have tried gently shaking the toner cartridge but this doesn't seem to
> have improved things much, if at all.
>

Have a dig around this YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/viandant5

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by: Abandoned_Trolley - Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:55 UTC

On 09/07/2022 13:34, David wrote:
> My HP colour laser printer is running out of black.
>
> I couldn't remember quite what I did in October 2018 so I now have to hunt
> through and see if I changed all the (small original) cartridges or if
> there is anything left in anything.
>
> Possibly I swapped out everything and held the partly used ones as spare;
> I have a vague memory of running out of blue because of all the blue
> themed documents I printed.
>
> The printer certainly filled its remit of occasional large double sided
> print runs and long periods of no printing without gumming up (as previous
> inkjets did).
>
> I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are because
> they were not direct from HP (which would have cost significantly more
> than the printer).
>
> The immediate decision, I think, if should I just buy black or should I go
> for the full kit?
>
> So long since I had to do anything that I've taken the printer for granted
> and will have to relearn how to fettle it.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Dave R
>

Long ago and far away ....

there used to be a very helpful web site called fixyourownprinter.com

("helpful" = meaning that it helped me fix my laser printer)

The web site has disappeared, but it looks like the owners may have
turned it in to a FaceBook page. I cant make any comment on it because I
am not a FaceBook user, but it might be worth looking at ..

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aus+uk / uk.comp.homebuilt / Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges

Subject	Author
Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges	David
Re: Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges	Andy Burns
Re: Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges	David
Re: Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges	Adrian Caspersz
Re: Laser printer longevity and toner cartridges	Abandoned_Trolley