How Do I Fill Up A Laser Cartridge ?

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I need to know how to fill up 2 laser cartridges for 2 printers : laser hp 1100 and a hp 1015. Cartridges : C4092A and Q2612A. One of them was previously refilled 2 times. How can I tell if it the refill will work ? Any advice / info / sites would be appreciated.


Thank you.How Do I Fill Up A Laser Cartridge ?
Unless you know what your doing, or want to clean a really bad mess out of your printer, or don't mind dirty and bad copy, I wouldn't recommend refilling a toner cartridge. Here is why.





If you look at a cartridge, you will see a green colored cylinder shaped part. That is called an image drum. It has three layers. A photo synthetic layer, a magnetic layer, and an aluminum core. That drum is were the latent image is painted on, and the toner is attracted to. It is designed to be only used once. When if fails, you will get maybe a line on you print out, or maybe a very gray and hazy background, or marks on the page.





Inside the cartridge on both sides of the drum, is a reservoir that holds your toner, and your waste toner. Inside of the toner reservoir is a series of augurs. These create the static charge, that allows the toner to be attracted to the drum. On the ends of these augurs are seals. When the seals fail, the leak toner into parts of your printer were you really don't want toner. The worst case, you short something out. The best case, you have a black mess, and really bad black marks on your printouts.





I have refilled a toner cartridge on several NEC units. Both of them required me to remove a side, and pull a plug, and dump toner through a funnel into the toner reservoir. Then I had to replace a fuse. (This clears the out of toner light.)





With an HP unit, I belive you have to drill a hole in the toner reservoir, and fill it with toner, then plug it up. Then you have to dump the waste toner. I believe that if you do a google search, you will find several sites that have refill kits for laser printers.





My advice would be if you are going to refill a toner cartridge, only do it once. The drum, and the rest of the cartridge are only designed to run through one run. It is cheaper to purchase a toner cartridge then being forced to call a printer tech, when the print quality gose down hill.