On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
One other thing that comes to mind is that the
blacks were much
better AFTER the first refill. It was widely believed at the time that
the drum was just getting "broken in" by that time.
There was also a finite useful life of the drum, and although the
"sweet-spot" was AFTER the first refill, the quality after many refills
was NOT good. I would guess that it would vary enormously depending on
what kind of content was being done (average density?). But there was
also no question that the CX drum had a life far greater than the amount
of toner in the cartridge. That "problem" was fixed in the SX, by using a
much smaller drum, with a shorter drum life.
HP did not seem to be very receptive to the concept of refilling their
cartridges. "We will pay the postage for you to send it back so that we
can "recycle" it, by crushing it and retireving some amount of the raw
materials in order to get that cartridge out of availability!"
BUT, can you
remember where to get some of that toner, so that Tony can
rebuild cartridges?
Oh hell no, if it's even still available, that was the
1980s.
I have no idea even of how many different parameters there are in types of
toners, but surely SOMETHING in current availability uses a reasonably
compatible toner (toner itself - no chance of cartridge
interchangability!)