Compatible Printer Cartridges.
We all know about the rip-off of printer inks and cartridges.
I think I ruined a Canon Ink Jet by refilling with my own ink, and an Epson by using a local retailer who supplied so called 'professionally' refilled ink cassettes.
I now have a Brother Laser printer - HL 2O4O - that needs a new Brother TN 2050 Toner/Cartridge.
Brother originals sell at over $100 dollars through Internet mail-order suppliers and yet one such supplier offers a 'compatible' one at $40, and reckons that out of an estimated 10,000 sold, only 2 have given problems.
This is more than just refilled ink, or toner, the device is more or less the bones of the whole printer, and includes moving parts that doubtless wear, but then if the cartridge fails it isn't necessarily going to damage the rest of the printer, as happened previously with an ink jet, and a new cartridge would restore to normal again ?
I'm still a little sceptical.
Last edited by ExSp33db1rd; 3rd January 2013 at 01:24.