What's the Right Choice for Printer Cartridges?

Technological innovations have brought us numerous printing solutions that allow you to produce files and documents from your computer. The printer has come a long way. In fact, it is now a “basic commodity”. Look around you and you would probably see that almost all computers, whether desktop or laptop, printers attached to them. Indeed, printers have evolved from monochromes and dot-matrix types to color and laser jets that allow people to print pictures and graphics and invoices and receipts. But as the printer increases its number of functions, so do the rate of consumption for their inks and toners. This means that more and more people now need to replace their printer cartridges.

Popular brands like HP, Canon, Epson, Brother and Xerox have also noticed this evolution. In fact, they have expanded their business acumen from manufacturing printers to manufacturing and selling of ink and toner cartridges and even specialty paper capitalize on the growing roles of printers. Though people used to patronize OEM printer cartridges because these are supposed to give “excellent print quality and will not cause any damage to the printer”, compatible and remanufactured ink and toner cartridges are now fast gaining name and fame. This is because they are more economical, easy to use and hardly have any difference with OEM ink and toner cartridges. Some people prefer using remanufactured ink and toner cartridges because aside from lower costs, it is also more environment-friendly.

To date, the use of printers in homes, offices, schools, malls and other places you can think of has earned compatible or remanufactured printer cartridges the title as the “right printing solution”. Of course, they reduce costs and expenses. They also contribute to the green campaign. As mentioned, there is hardly any difference in the usability and quality of printouts when you are using compatible or remanufactured inks and toners. A compatible or remanufactured printer cartridge can function just as well as an OEM printer cartridge. This is specifically-designed and manufactured to match the standards and performance of their OEM counterparts. Perhaps the main consideration when buying compatible printer is the quality of the ink or toner. If it’s your first time to buy a compatible or remanufactured printer cartridge, we recommend that you list down your printer model and part number (or serial) of the cartridge to make sure that you are buying the correct compatible or remanufactured cartridge. Browse through online stores and catalogs to compare the prices and services for each brand or store.

Tonerboss offers you cheaper but premium quality ink and toner cartridge products. All of our products are formulated and tested by expert technicians, guaranteed compatible and with excellent print quality. Tonerboss offers online shopping so you can buy your printer supplies anytime and anywhere. Our services and transactions are also guaranteed safe and hassle-free.

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Show Me the Money: Your Savings from Using Reman Toners

The end of one year signals the start of another. Businesses are now preparing not only for the tax season but also for their business plans for next year. Management teams also have their hands full at this time of the year because they have to come up with their budget budget plans for next year. Part of this budget plan will be the printer supplies. Yes, more and more companies are now making the effort to go green but paperwork remains inevitable in the office.

TonerBoss knows your business needs. We are giving you an option to maximize your profits by cutting down your expenses even more. At the same time, we will help you promote your “go green” campaign. So what's this option? Use compatible or remanufactured toners and cartridges on your printers. This is not just about getting your money's worth, it's also about great savings and valuable contribution to your corporate social responsibility of saving the environment.

You might be spending too much on printer supplies. Printer manufacturers makes use of the “user-based model” which means that they are selling their printers at lower prices since they can make more money from selling OEM toners and inks.

Here is a rundown of savings and costs when using compatible or remanufactured toners and inks:

Table 1: Sample Cost Analysis

Printer Model: HP Color LaserJet CP4005n (CB503A)			Unit Price: $ 1,099.00
	Cost/Cartridge ($)	Pages	Cost per Page ($)	Cost/Year ($) *	Savings (vs. OEM)
OEM	179.99	7,500	0.024	1,079.94
Premium Compatible Toner	79.99	7,500	0.011	479.94	55%
Remanufactured Toner	28.99	9,000**	0.0032	144.95	87%

*Cost per Year is calculated assuming that your office replaces black toner cartridges every two months.

**Since the remanufactured toner has more standard page yield, it is assumed that it can last more than 2 months.

From here, you can see that your business can gain more profits by getting more savings from using compatible or remanufactured toners and inks. If you choose OEM toners, a whole year’s supply or consumption is already almost equivalent to the price of a new printer unit.

Premium toner allows you to cut your expenses by more than half with hardly any difference on the print quality and page yield. Users who have tried premium compatible or remanufactured toners and inks say that they did not encounter any issues in installing and in the using premium toners and inks.

The use of remanufactured toners and inks can give you the highest savings. There are no issues or problems with remanufactured toners and inks especially if they are manufactured by reliable third-party manufacturers. There may be some differences in print quality but this is not noticeable.

Apart from the savings, using compatible or remanufactured toners and inks can help you save empty or used cartridges from being thrown into landfills.

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Beware of Overpriced Inks and Toners!

I know there have been several warnings and testimonial blogs posted online on printer ink scams but it seems that there are some people who do not quit on the bad habits and there are also some who don’t seem to learn their lesson.

These printer ink scam offer people and small businesses overpriced toners and inks. All transactions are done through telemarketers. For example, a telemarketer will contact you to promote their ink and toner products. They tend to prey on small businesses and individuals. The telemarketer will tell you that their products are guaranteed to have more ink or toner, can print more and carry a popular brand name. In most cases, the telemarketer will not stop or drop the call unless he gets a verbal approval from you or from the employee of the small business. Sometimes, the telemarketer would even resolve to outright lies just to get some “forced sale”.

Soon enough, you or the company will realize that you have paid much more than what you normally spend on inks and toners. In fact, you may have paid for as much as four times more than the average prices of inks and toners. All you will get is a bill that does not have a valid phone number or address except for a P.O. Box address where you can send the payment.

If you don’t want to fall prey into this scam, do not entertain calls from alleged telemarketers. The best way to handle these calls is to ask the telemarketer for the legitimate company name and URL so you can check on the validity of their business as well as compare their prices to those of other brands or printer supplies companies. This also allows you the opportunity to get their phone number by telling them that you will just return their call if you are interested to purchase some stuffs from them.

As for small businesses, it is more advisable for them to adopt a standard procedure in which all purchases will be directed to a single-point person.

There is nothing wrong with purchasing compatible toners, just make sure that the store from which you are buying from is reliable like TonerBoss.

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