Best Generic Toner recommendations

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DeepBlueSky

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#293392 18-Jan-2022 10:09

Hi Team,

I need to get some more toner for my colour laser printer, HP mfc-477dfw I would rather not pay multiple hundreds for genuine if I can get a good generic. Do you have any reommendations of a good locally NZ available alternative.

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#2852825 18-Jan-2022 13:43

Yesterday I got a replacement toner cartridge from Cartridge World for $84. This requires giving them the old, empty cartridge. They offer the same Brother OEM for $134, and Warehouse Stationery had it for $128. The OEM options included (at least in the past) a courier bag to send in the old cartridge for recycling.

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DeepBlueSky

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#2852848 18-Jan-2022 14:13

Thanks Shadowfoot

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#2852968 18-Jan-2022 15:37

Cheap reman toners can sometimes be really bad , poor colors , leaking issues (not all are bad) .
I used to be in that industry .

So buy from a company that can help if you run into issues (ie can clean up the printer ) , rather than some reseller of cheapy Chinese remans
Cartridge World would be a good bet

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#2852974 18-Jan-2022 15:53

Easyink have been good for us so far.

Avoid Tonerink at all costs, their toner destroyed a printer

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DeepBlueSky

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#2853426 19-Jan-2022 13:13

Thank You 1101 / danfaulknor - 1101 thanks for the guidence, I got a cartridge off Fab Cartridges to test before ordering more I'll let you know how it goes they supply genuine and generic and looks like also supply hardware. Also thanks danfaulknor for the heads up on EasyInk I'll keep these guys as a backup.

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#2854803 22-Jan-2022 08:49

In case you don't know, ink jet ink is NZ $4,700 a liter, and by weight more expensive than gold.

Manufacturers have been known to use dirty tricks, scare tactics, and DRM to strongly encourage you to buy cartridges exclusively from them. (DRM = Digital Rights Management)

With COVID, there's a chip shortage so Cannon made an official announcement how to bypass the DRM.

Tech Dirt: Chip Shortage Forces Canon To Issue Workarounds For Its Own Obnoxious DRM

For decades now, consumers have been lured into a sour deal: pay for a relatively inexpensive printer, then spend a lifetime paying an arm and a leg for viciously overpriced printer cartridges. As most have learned first-hand, any attempt to disrupt this obnoxious paradigm via third-party printer cartridges has been met with a swift DRM roundhouse kick to the solar plexus. In fact if there's an area where the printer industry actually innovates, it's most frequently in finding new, creative and obnoxious methods of preventing cartridge competition.

Unfortunately for Canon, the global chip shortage has temporarily put a kink in the company's plan to annoy regular customers. The shortage means the company hasn't been able to buy enough chips used to determine whether a printer cartridge is "genuine" or "authorized," and therefore has had to start selling cartridges without DRM, and issue guidance helping users do an end around for the company's own obnoxious DRM warnings.
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#2855351 24-Jan-2022 10:37

kingdragonfly: In case you don't know, ink jet ink is NZ $4,700 a liter, and by weight more expensive than gold.

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not when youre importing generic inkjet carts for 25c each . (where I used to work)
Then selling for $25+
The markups are huuuuuge

DeepBlueSky

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#2855551 24-Jan-2022 12:27

Hi Team,

Update

After a bit of a Courier delay I received a 411x Toner Cartridge today, read the intructions gave it a shake removed long pull tab plus a couple of plugs and installed. The printer went through a setup routine and I now have according to the printer >4600 pages of Cyan available.

Printed a few test pages with shades of blue it it looks great no weirdness and the price way cheaper ~$70 including courier vs Warehouse Stationary Genuine HP $419.00 or $369.93 from FAB.

https://fabcartridges.co.nz/product/410x-compatible-hp-hi-yield-cyan-toner-cf411x/