There is a wide variety of copier toner cartridges and fax toner cartridges available, so created guide to finding the right toner for your office copier or fax machine. Below you will find our guide on what to look for when purchasing toner for your copier of fax machine. We also provide some help explanations of some toner industry terms.
The most important issues when buying new toner cartridges is to find one that fits your copier and coping needs. It is very important that you first know if your copier holds toner cartridges or toner bottles. It is also important that assess your need for either black toner or color toner. And finally it is important that you match the toner’s yield, number of pages it will produce, with your copier/fax usage.
Copier’s typically use toner in either a bottle or cartridge format. Since copiers are now standard in most offices, keeping them running and producing high quality output is very important for any office. Toner, powder type substance, in a copier works with what is called a drum. Drum collects toner when a laser beam from the copier hits the drum. This creates an image on the paper by having the toner melt on the paper. The toner is the most part of this process because without it the image can never be transferred on the page. Fax machines basically are smaller versions of copiers therefore they use almost exactly the same process to recreate images, utilizing the toner, drum and laser beam.
Toner can be refilled in by either purchasing a new cartridge or by refilling your current cartridge. There are 3 types of new cartridges that you can buy to refill your copier or fax toner. OEM, Original Equipment Manufacturer, copier toner is toner that exactly the same the one that originally came with your copier or fax machine. This is typically produced by the same people who made you copier or fax machine. Generic copier toner cartridges are made to mirror the cartridges created by the OEM. These offer a cheaper option and usual have the same quality as an OEM toner cartridge. Remanufactured copier toner cartridges are cartridges that have been previously used and refurbished so that they may be used again. These typically are the cheapest form of replacing a toner cartridge because the cartridge is previously used. By far, the cheapest option is buy toner refill kits which allow you to refill your old cartridges with new ink. These kits then to be user friendly and unlike one may think they hardly ever make a mess.
The most important factor when deciding what toner cartridge to purchase is which one will work best with your machine. Another highly important factor is price, make sure that you are getting a deal and that your toner is not bleeding you dry. We wish you the Best of Luck in your hunt for your next copier toner cartridge.
