One of the challenges for recycling cartridges at the end of their life is how to do it cost-effectively and safely. Toner is a fine dust and, as I discovered rather too expensively early on in my remanufacturing career, can and does explode. This a key factor when...
The OEM’s GreenLine remanufacturing operation applies to the full range of its MFPs, which “go beyond recycling and are genuinely remanufactured”. In an article on The Guardian website sponsored by Philips, it was described how the the MFPs are “returned from lease...
The Toner Optimiser detects and eliminates overlapping ink and toner coverage that often happens as a result of square computer pixels being converted into circles to be read by the printing device.
SymQuest, a former authorised retail dealer for Canon USA, has been denied its request for an injunction requiring the OEM to keep providing spare printer parts and consumable supplies. The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York decided to allow the...
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The OEM increased sales year-over-year but saw operating income decline. Brother’s results for the first quarter of 2015 show net sales of ¥177.05 billion ($1.4 billion/€1.3 billion), a 10.4 percent increase on the first quarter of 2014, but operating income fell by...
The UK-based remanufacturer has ceased trading “with immediate effect”.
The range of machines has been cited as “the end of the dreaded printer cartridge”, with the EcoTank machines to be launched in September including the WorkForce Pro WF-R4640 AIO, the WorkForce ET-4550 AIO, the ET-4500, the Expression ET-2550 and the ET-2500.
The growth in online retail has been “accompanied by an increase in the number of counterfeit items”, including cartridges. The Hindu reported on how the rising number of e-commerce stores in the Indian market has brought an “increase in the number of counterfeit...
The manufacturer has published a video guide on how to reset certain cartridge chips using its I-PROG chip resetter device, with the chips covered in the video used in the Sindoricoh A603 and Lexmark MS310 cartridge series.
The OEM released a technical white paper in which it advises both remanufacturers and chip manufacturers how to “properly programme the data field” on aftermarket chips.