Question – What if I neglect my ink jet printer for long periods, will it affect the print quality? The simple answer is – Not using your inkjet printer for long periods WILL cause the ink in your cartridge to dry out, first affecting the print quality and eventually rendering the cartridge useless. Most of us are […]
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What Photo Paper Should I Use?
Have you ever walked into a computer store or a big box store and seen the samples of what you can accomplish with the newest photo-quality inkjet printers? But getting those same results at home can be a daunting task if you don’t feed the right paper into your printer. All those photo-centric papers on […]
Is a Remanufactured Printer Cartridge a Better Choice?
What is Remanufacturing? In our industry it’s reusing and refilling ink and toner printer cartridges so they can be used again. Used cartridges are collected though out the world by individuals, businesses and the remanufacturers themselves. Once the empty cores are at the remanufacturers location they are sorted to determine which cartridges can be remanufactured […]
Is the Cost of Laser Toner Going Up?
Have you been noticing that your laser printing cost are going up even though you have been trying to cut down on printing to save money? It seems the more you try to save by cutting down the higher your toner cartridges are costing. A report by Melissa Riofrio in PC World explains why this […]
Recycling Toner Powder Into Useful Items!
So we all talk about recycling and I like to believe that most of us are concerned enough about it to actually do our part to that end. In our industry which is involved in recycling the empty ink and toner cartridges that come from the small home user to the largest corporations we try […]
Do Economy sized inks actually save you money?
Recently HP released a new size of ink cartridges to the market in order to make their pricing seem more competitive against remanufactured cartridges and other manufacturers.
How Do I Fix a Paper Jam?
We all own printers and we all have run across the annoying paper jam that always seems to happen at the worst possible time. So how do you fix the jam and what in the heck causes paper to jam? In this post we are going to look at those questions and try to […]
What’s the Best Portable Photo Printer
Have you ever wished you could take a picture with your camera and turn it into a 4 X 6 photo right on the spot? Well now you can, it’s just a matter of choosing the right Portable Photo Printer to meet your needs and your budget. There’s just nothing like taking a photo at […]
Is the HP Officejet Pro 8100 as good as a laser printer?
It seems we’ve all been there, we want to move up from our old color ink jet printer to a nice shiny new color laser jet printer. Problem is up to now the price of a quality color laser was just out of our reach. Well the ink jet printer manufactures have heard our cries […]
Can an Ink Cartridge explode in your printer?
Here at Ink & Toner Solutions we hear this all the time: “my inkjet cartridge exploded in my printer and there’s ink all over the place!” Can an inkjet cartridge “explode in a printer”? The simple answer is No. Period. It’s just not possible. Let’s start with the way a print head is built: