Originally Posted by
allan
If its a contract machine why not? The guy that needs to fix it would be me. Sure some discomfort for the customer if it ends up to be the the kind of toner that could choke the machine in a verity of ways. Have not seen or heard a clump in a generic bottle, or just my luck. Now the kind that sticks to the mag roller or fails to transfer or fuse or simply fails to fit in the development bad leaving a nice background would be one of the things a vacuum cleaner would be handy for.
Ive been avoiding HP machines since i started, serviced a good couple of inkjets in my time. Disassemble wash reassemble repeat. They are expensive to run. No doubt that they work well. The machines i use privately for own use always ends up being a HP or a brother. But seen the downtown guys printing volumes with small 1100 printers chasing the cost down by refilling toner and using cheap generics to replace them when the drums die. Brother is also champion to refill and rebuild.
Its the darn chips that can become an issue. If the machine only warns you but still run its ok.
How does the Kyocera machines work with the chips? Does it need to be replaced or will it run without it or with a spent chip? Konica Minolta only use chips to reset counters and its nothing but a fuse.
Toner prices are ridicules and makes for the bigger part of the running cost. Getting that down makes much sense. I run a bunch of PRO 951's and 754's. That would be TN015 and TN712. Both are happy to run of TN414 except if you don't replenish the developer thru the bottle the developer in the tank will fail sooner.
Even if I get that cheap enough its a hassle to pour toner over. Takes five TN414's to fill a TN015 bottle.
Been chopping and changing toners i find from previous series machines and pouring it over to the new shape bottles to sell with no complaints.
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