The largest manufacturer of aftermarket imaging systems and components launched products in the first quarter including chips, toners, doctor blades and drums.
The products released consist of over 30 replacement chips for use in HP, Samsung, Lexmark and other OEM cartridges, with HP chips including 90, 91, 789 and 792 wide-format plotter chips. Static Control stated that it “redesigned these chips to allow for easier installation” for remanufacturers, with a new “easy install” and “proper ‘ink low’ and ‘ink out’ messaging”. The company also produced inkjet chips for use in HP’s 831 cartridges.
Chips for Lexmark offerings included multiple yield chips for use in the C782, X780 and CX310 printers’ cartridges, featuring “full OEM functionality and accurate reporting” alongside “being resistant to OEM firmware updates”. Static Control commented that “in order to [keep] providing firmware-resistant chips for these cartridges, it is vital for customers to send their used OEM chips to Static Control”.
For Samsung, chips with “regional variants” were released with yields of 30,000 pages for the MLT-D307U. The regional variants come as a result of Samsung “often releas[ing] cartridge SKUs across multiple regions”, with Static Control warning users to “be sure to check the cartridge part number prior to ordering to ensure the correct chips are ordered”. Other Samsung releases included a replacement chip for the MLT-D11S cartridges and a 40,000 page yield chip for use in the MLT-D309E and ELS cartridge.
Other chips launched included a regional chip for use in Kyocera’s TK-1124 cartridges, and replacement drum unit chips for Xerox’s WorkCentre 4150 cartridges and a chip for use in the WorkCentre, 5325, 5330 and 5335 cartridges. Chips were also released for use in Ricoh’s C262 cartridges, Konica Minolta’s bizhub 4000P cartridges (with a yield of 20,000 pages), Epson’s LP-S440 and S340 cartridges, and NEC’s 5300 and 5500 cartridges. Finally, multiple page yield chips were produced for use in Fuji Xerox’s P350, 450, CP305, P215, P255 and M255 cartridges.
One “complete system solution” was produced for Ricoh’s SP 5200 cartridges, consisting of Odyssey toner and drum and a replacement chip, with Static Control stating that “these cartridges are similar to the popular Lexmark T-650 cartridges”. The cartridge types “share remanufacturing techniques”, and Static Control’s drum and toner combination “was developed together to provide OEM-comparable performance”.
Other products released in the first quarter included an update to the NeverTAB PCR for HP’s 4600, offering a “superior level of resistance against toner additive build-up (TAB)”, and a universal HD toner for “a broad range” of Brother cartridges. Replacement toners for use in Samsung’s MLT-D307 and Dell’s 7130 cartridges rounded out the toners launched, while a doctor blade and wiper blade solution was produced for HP’s 1012 cartridge.
Finally, doctor blades for HP’s 1320 and P1505 cartridges, a replacement wiper blade for HP’s P2055 cartridges, and an Odyssey drum for Samsung’s CLT-x407 cartridges were launched.
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