Refilling Laser CartridgesWritten by Barry Shultz
Laser cartridges are much more sophisticated than inkjet cartridges. They have many moving parts but they all have some things in common. Laser cartridges do not use ink, they use toner. Toner is a dry black powdery substance with consistency of baking flour. All laser cartridges consist of a drum, toner, corona wires and cleaning blades among other parts that include gears and other moving objects. The only similarity that they have to inkjet cartridges is fact that you can refill them. You will not get as many refills from a laser cartridge because there are other parts that will eventually wear out that most people will not be able to replace without some technical skills. Expect about three refills on average from a laser cartridge. Refilling a laser cartridge is not that difficult. First you need to gain access to toner hopper. You can do this by either dis-assembling cartridge or by using a tool to burn a hole into cartridge right into toner hopper. You re-fill hopper with proper amount of toner and re-assemble it or seal fill hole. This is a rather simplistic explanation because there are so many different styles of laser cartridges and each one will have it's own procedure. The way laser cartridges work is very ingenious. A photosensitive substrate is coated onto a cylinder or drum. The drum is charged evenly with electricity by corona wire or corona strip. When laser in printer shines on drum electrical current at that particular area will be dissipated leaving a latent image or an invisible image made up entirely of electricity.
| | Recycling Inkjet CartridgesWritten by Barry Shultz
Here are a few facts about inkjet cartridges:* Over 375,000,000 Empty Inkjet Cartridges Dumped Each Year. * Statistics reveal that only 5% of all empty inkjet cartridges are currently being recycled. * E-mail has increased amount of paper used in offices by almost 40%. * Plastics used in inkjet cartridges can take over 10 centuries (1000 years!) to decompose * 90ml of oil is used to produce each inkjet cartridge. * In last six months alone, inkjet cartridge recycling has saved more than 50 million liters of oil. This is more oil than what was tragically spilled by Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989. * Empty inkjet cartridges are THE most valuable post-consumer item. (http://www.empty-inkjet-cartridges.com) There are lots of companies on internet that will buy your empty inkjet cartridges. This is an excellent opportunity for raising fund money for any organization from Boy Scouts to baseball teams or to just put a few bucks back in your pocket. This is not chump change either. Some companies are paying $6.50 and more for one cartridge. Collect a bunch of these and you can make some serious money. Laser cartridges can fetch up to $25 each Most of companies that will buy your empty cartridges will also pay for any postage charges that you incur. Inkjet brokers just can't get enough cartridges fast enough to supply many recyclers that are starting up. They have to rely on people like you and me to keep them supplied.
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