Retailer promotes benefits of reman

Office Supply Outfitters releases new information on the benefits of remanufactured and compatible brand ink and toner cartridges.

Office Supply Outfitters has recently compiled a list of six major reasons for purchasing toner and ink cartridge replacements that are remanufactured products. An online imaging supplies retailer, Office Supply Outfitters has contributed to the growing success and prevalence of compatible brand third party toner and inkjet cartridges in the market place.    

Office Supply Outfitters affirms that remanufactured imaging supplies are purchased by a variety of state agencies for a number of reasons. Six benefits can be obtained by using compatible brand imaging supplies. These generic ink and toner cartridge imaging supplies will help agencies attain their procurement goals, improve markets, create jobs, reduce energy consumption, reduce waste going to landfills and reduce manufacturing waste and pollution. “Many state departments, boards, commissions, offices, agency-level offices, and cabinet-level offices buy compatible brand toner cartridges and inkjet cartridges,” says Mike Gardner, the company’s president, “for these important reasons”:

1. Improves markets: When people buy goods with recycled content, their purchases help to create a demand for materials collected in local government recycling programs.

2. Helps attain procurement goals: Many states have “Buy Recycled” programs, and remanufactured imaging supplies approved recycled products that satisfy their program requirements.

3. Creates jobs: The manufacturing process for recycled printer cartridges and other recycled products creates far more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.

4. Reduces energy consumption: Recycled products usually take less energy to make. Recycled aluminum, for example, takes 95 percent less energy to make than new aluminum from bauxite ore.

5. Reduces manufacturing waste and pollution: In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution, water pollution, and waste than making products from virgin materials.

6. Reduces waste going to landfills: Diverted materials are made into new ink cartridges and other products, rather than being disposed of, so landfill space is conserved.

Many State of California agencies are currently using re-manufactured toner cartridges in their operations, with good results. Local and federal government offices, as well as those in the private and nonprofit sectors, benefit from using remanufactured cartridges. A few California state organizations that use remanufactured cartridges are: Department of Water Resources, Management Services Branch, Sacramento, CA; Department of Health Services (DHS), Program Support Branch, Sacramento, CA; California Integrated Waste Management Board, Information Management Branch, Sacramento, CA.

The Information Management Branch has been purchasing re-manufactured toner cartridges for the CWIMB for the last eight to nine years.

The re-manufactured toner cartridges are reliable, and if a problem ever arises Office Supply Outfitters is quick to replace the cartridge.