Its of utmost importance to shake the hell out of the new toner cartridge prior to installation especially on machines with auto-refining developer.
I am currently working at a remote maximum security facility where everything you bring in is X-rayed. (high resolution colour display belt driven airport security type)
I was interested to see and was allowed to look at what the toner cartridges looked like when passed through in respect to the distribution of the developer and toner. These had been on the shelf for 6 months in the warehouse just outside the facility prior to being used today.( all 4 colours)
The developer which shows clearly on the x-ray in stark contrast to the toner ends up separated and pooling in 1 or 2 round clumps at the lowest surfaces of the cartridge. It almost looks like the bottles are deliberately tampered with and filled with a suspicious non uniform substance.
Unfortunately no phones or cameras are allowed in so you'll just have to take my word for it. Unless someone else can X-ray a toner thats been sitting for a while
This pretty much confirms my suspicion of failing dev units SOMETIMES being directly a result of customers NOT shaking the toner before installation.
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