HP laserjet toner refills?

[whistleclient]

I have an HP Laserjet which takes expensive ($70+) toner cartridges. Anyone know a source for reliable refills/ remanufactured ones? Unfortunately this is the type of thing where google turns up spammy results so I was looking for a personal recommendation.

There are a couple on Amazon, but the reviews seem too positive, if that makes sense.

 

[imagoon]

Staples.... Officemax. $70 is a cheap cartridge also btw. Toner carts have wear parts that may or may not make it through a second fill of toner. I use lots of refurbished carts at the office and I do get a few that die because the drum simply wore out or the seals started leaking.

 

[whistleclient]

Staples.... Officemax. $70 is a cheap cartridge also btw. Toner carts have wear parts that may or may not make it through a second fill of toner. I use lots of refurbished carts at the office and I do get a few that die because the drum simply wore out or the seals started leaking.

Yeah, I guess $70 isn't that bad. Thanks, I guess I'll do Staples.

 

[Soundmanred]

Swiftink.com

 

[Cerb]

For non-OEM and refills, there are plenty of good eBay sellers. If it has to be OEM, there are some good eBay sellers, and plenty of stores out there that offer mild discounts compared to normal office supply places...but don't expect price-saving miracles if you need it to be OEM.

 

[Lemon law]

It seems to be that none of the above posters have any real overall strategy. You can save money using third party toners with the down side risk of a higher fraction defective.
So what happens when you have a defective third party cartridge? Are you going to shut down your whole office waiting for that free replacement or will you have at least one known good replacement? And a local refiller you are in driving distance of. By the time its mail order its at least three days at a minimum.

But point be you can save maybe 50% or so on Third party toner cartridges.

But if you really really want to save huge bucks on high volume laser printing, you change the laser printer you use instead. There are a lot of out of production HP industrial use high volume printers on the used market now. They use standard 10,000
page yield toner cartridges that also come in non-OEM. Using them and you can get to the close to 1/4 A CENT consumable costs. In production the printers used to cost way over a grand, but on the used market its only a Hundred or so.

 

[imagoon]

It seems to be that none of the above posters have any real overall strategy. You can save money using third party toners with the down side risk of a higher fraction defective.
So what happens when you have a defective third party cartridge? Are you going to shut down your whole office waiting for that free replacement or will you have at least one known good replacement? And a local refiller you are in driving distance of. By the time its mail order its at least three days at a minimum.

But point be you can save maybe 50% or so on Third party toner cartridges.

But if you really really want to save huge bucks on high volume laser printing, you change the laser printer you use instead. There are a lot of out of production HP industrial use high volume printers on the used market now. They use standard 10,000
page yield toner cartridges that also come in non-OEM. Using them and you can get to the close to 1/4 A CENT consumable costs. In production the printers used to cost way over a grand, but on the used market its only a Hundred or so.

I wouldn't say that.

For the poster directly I answered his question. For my business it is simple, I use a toner supplier. If one toner cart causes you to lose days of printing then quite frankly "you are doing it wrong." I buy toner at minimum 5 carts at a time. More for the "common" models. A toner vac is less than $100. Spare carts are always on the shelf, and there is more than 1 printer in the building. I do not see the 50% savings however. Decent re-manufactured carts and third part carts are typically 75% to 80% of the OEM. I go with this route because the ultra cheap carts were wasting my time and money failing before the cart was empty and forcing me to vacuum laser printers regularly as they leaked.

Basically labor and failure rates made the 50% off oem toner cart cost more TCO than oem. The 80% carts however have saved me that cash and includes printer refurbishing which we use extensively.

 

[StarrSCW]

It seems to be that none of the above posters have any real overall strategy. You can save money using third party toners with the down side risk of a higher fraction defective.
So what happens when you have a defective third party cartridge? Are you going to shut down your whole office waiting for that free replacement or will you have at least one known good replacement? And a local refiller you are in driving distance of. By the time its mail order its at least three days at a minimum.

But point be you can save maybe 50% or so on Third party toner cartridges.

But if you really really want to save huge bucks on high volume laser printing, you change the laser printer you use instead. There are a lot of out of production HP industrial use high volume printers on the used market now. They use standard 10,000
page yield toner cartridges that also come in non-OEM. Using them and you can get to the close to 1/4 A CENT consumable costs. In production the printers used to cost way over a grand, but on the used market its only a Hundred or so.

Totally agree