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by dead leaves raked in a pile on July 21st, 2009

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I refill my toner cartridges when the printer won't print because it says they're empty. First thing I have to do is empty out the remaining toner, and there seems to be loads of it. How come?

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  • by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on July 21st, 2009

    8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009

    I forget which magazine it was, but they did a test and found that some manufacturers set their printers to report empty at as much as 40% of the toner/ink remaining!

    Lucky for me, I have a printer that will still print with a pseudo-empty ink tank. It starts giving me warnings long before it's actually empty enough to affect print quality but I just keep on keeping on until it's actually out.

    Whoever made your printer must have got wise to people like me and installed a cut-off to make you buy toner twice as often as you need to.

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