The chips are designed for use with the TK-5197 colour cartridge, used in a range of TASKalfa MFPs.
Apex stated in November that the OEM “launched several types of A4 colour MFPs TASKalfa” machines this year since February, including the 306ci, 356ci, 406ci, 3252ci, 4052ci and 4002i, with its chips released in October to cover “six major regions” including Europe, Japan, the USA, China, Asia-Pacific and South Korea.
The Apex chips “adopt [the] ASiC design which is consistent and OEM-like” in performance, while the chip size “is perfectly fit” to the groove of the cartridge, and can be “directly used” in remanufactured cartridges “without any modif[ications]”. Apex also provided a series of images to discuss the groove of the cartridge, with a small square space filled by its chip and an image of another chip for which the “interspace between [the] cartridge and printer is very small”, so the “sealing of [the] chip is hard to control”, and can “lead to the abrasion of the components”.
Its chip “can perfectly fit in the groove” and “keeps a safe space between [the] cartridge and printer, which can effectively avoid the risk of the abrasion of the components”. At the time, the company said that coming soon for Europe were chips for the 4052ci, 5052ci and 6052ci; chips with respective yields of 30,000 and 20,000 pages; and finally, for the 4002i, 5002i and 6002i, only the black chip, with a yield of 35,000 pages.
In its latest release, the company updated the releases list with CMYK chips for Europe for the TASKalfa 3252ci, with yields of 25,000 pages in black and 15,000 pages in colours; CMYK chips for Europe for the 2552ci, with yields of 20,000 pages in black and 12,000 pages in colours; CMYK chips for Europe for the 4052ci, 5052ci and 6052ci with yields of 30,000 pages in black and 20,000 pages in colours; and a black chip for Europe for the 4002i, 5002i and 6002i with a yield of 35,000 pages.
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