# Toner Survey **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [January 12, 2012, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124 "2012-01-12T11:21:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/1 "2012-01-12T11:21:44Z")
Do you use the manufacturer’s original toners or cheaper ones? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/2 "2012-01-12T15:36:01Z")
Manufacturer’s ## – lehmanp00 lehmanp00’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=25393](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=25393) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/3 "2012-01-12T15:58:50Z")
Arthur wrote: [color=blue] > Do you use the manufacturer’s original toners or cheaper ones?[/color] When it was my decision, I always went with manufacturer ones. – Does this washcloth smell like chloroform? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/4 "2012-01-12T16:46:21Z")
manufacturer’s. 1. They just work better. We have tested several aftermarket cart’s and no matter the claims, there were always problems. 2. We carry printer maintenance. Its cheap and worth it (in our eyes) to be able to make a service call and have a dude show up with parts. The maintenance company prefers manufacture cartridges. They also claim there is less trouble with OE then aftermarket/refills. On 1/12/2012 3:21 AM, Arthur wrote:[color=blue] > Do you use the manufacturer’s original toners or cheaper ones?[/color] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/5 "2012-01-12T18:27:01Z")
Manufacturer’s - we some time ago tried others, but they never delivered what they claimed. Further on ower higher volume printers we have maintenance contracts, which require OEM toners - but overall they are the cheapest if you calcuate costs per page. Only at home with some older HP inkjets I use alternate products, but only new cartridges from other brands, never refilled. – W. Prindl Arthur wrote: [color=blue] > Do you use the manufacturer’s original toners or cheaper ones?[/color] ---
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Guess I’m the lone dissenter. I use a mix of remanufactured and OEM. As far as remanufactured goes, there are proportionately more problems BUT all of them are guranteed to work so if it doesn’t, back it goes. We keep three for each printer in stock. It has happened once that all three on the shelf were bad! That remanufacturer got fired. Anywho, as the price we get is almost half of OEM, we deal with the issues they cause. Maybe you don’t have the time for it, but maybe you do. Definitely all remanufacturers are NOT created equal. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/7 "2012-01-12T19:41:42Z")
Arthur,[color=blue] > Do you use the manufacturer’s original toners or cheaper ones?[/color] Original – Anders Gustafsson (NKP) The Aaland Islands (N60 E20) Have an idea for a product enhancement? Please visit: [http://www.novell.com/rms](http://www.novell.com/rms) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/8 "2012-01-12T20:49:56Z")
When the CPA firm I worked for purchased the original HP LaserJet in the 1980s, they bought new HP cartridges and had them refilled twice. At the time, that was the recommendation due to limitations on the drum. I noticed that by the time you were using the twice-refilled cartridge, the characters and lines drawn by the printer were “fatter” than with a new cartridge. Today, the better remanufacturers replace the drum when they become worn, and refilled cartridges can be very good. Having said that, I buy new OEM cartridges on eBay. I search for them well ahead of when I will actually need them, and look for really good prices. Although the prices are usually pretty good, even bargain purchases of OEM cartridges cost more than remanufactured. -Bob Carroll “Arthur” [a@b.com](mailto:a@b.com) wrote in message [news:ICxPq.473$QG1.454@kovat.provo.novell.com](mailto:news:ICxPq.473$QG1.454@kovat.provo.novell.com)…[color=blue] > Do you use the manufacturer’s original toners or cheaper ones?[/color] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/toner-survey/22124/9 "2012-01-13T11:26:01Z")
Have been down the refill and OEM route previously, but would always choose the manufacturers cartridges these days due the high failure rate we saw via several alternative suppliers. ## – JAMES GOSLING ‘[www.jamesgosling.com](http://www.jamesgosling.com)’ ([http://www.jamesgosling.com](http://www.jamesgosling.com)) ‘[www.novellblog.com](http://www.novellblog.com)’ ([http://www.novellblog.com](http://www.novellblog.com)) jamesgosling’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=9688](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=9688) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606) ---
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:29:58 +0000, GofBorg wrote: [color=blue] > Guess I’m the lone dissenter. > > I use a mix of remanufactured and OEM. As far as remanufactured goes, > there are proportionately more problems BUT all of them are guranteed to > work so if it doesn’t, back it goes. We keep three for each printer in > stock. It has happened once that all three on the shelf were bad! That > remanufacturer got fired.[/color] Us too. We have been testing remanufactured cartridges from different sources for a few years now and found all but one were no good. The source we are working with now has never had a failure. ---
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cheapies for me defenitely just a cheapo 100 buck laser printer, the manufacturer carts cost almost as much as a whole new printer compared to 30 bucks on evilbay for a cheapo one for what I use it at home for I can’t tell the difference ## – gleach1 gleach1’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=934](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=934) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606) ---
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> cheapies for me defenitely[color=blue] > just a cheapo 100 buck laser printer, the manufacturer carts cost > almost as much as a whole new printer compared to 30 bucks on evilbay > for a cheapo one > for what I use it at home for I can’t tell the difference[/color] For home use it is definitely a no-brainer. Problems show up more readily with higher volume page counts. ---
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I use the manufacturer brand - in both of my printers: Minolta 2530DL Color Laser and Cannon Pixma color inkjet printer The Minolta have a 4 cartridge system (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and 1 Black drum) system, the Cannon has only 2 cartridge system (1 black and 1 tri-color) – I’ve seen with other “cheapies” that I have to clean the interior of the printer more often because of leakage from the remanufactured cartridges and drums for the Minolta. Leroy Joseph Visual Click Software (eDirectory Management and Reporting) ‘eDirectory Management and Reporting | DSRAZOR for eDirectory’ ([http://www.visualclick.com/content/dsrazor-for-edirectory.htm](http://www.visualclick.com/content/dsrazor-for-edirectory.htm)) ## – leroyjjr leroyjjr’s Profile: [http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=75462](http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=75462) View this thread: [http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606](http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=450606)