Anyone found the optimal amount of times a laser toner cartrige can be
re-filled before printing becomes below acceptable?

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I bought a refill kit of a Hewlett-Packard cartridge through Ebay some time
ago........... kit came to about£15 with postage and it worked fine. The
site reckoned on average, you can refill about 3 times and then the
light-sensitive starts to deteriate and lines begin appearing on the
printouts.
It was very easy to refill............ you use a soldering iron with a
length of 15mm copper pipe attached to melt a whole in the casing, sealing
it up afterward with some insulating tape. My refilled cartridge was fine
"Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk" wrote in message
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Anyone found the optimal amount of times a laser toner cartrige can be
re-filled before printing becomes below acceptable?

Cheers
Pete
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In message , Geoff Norfolk
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I bought a refill kit of a Hewlett-Packard cartridge through Ebay some time
ago........... kit came to about£15 with postage and it worked fine. The
site reckoned on average, you can refill about 3 times and then the
light-sensitive starts to deteriate and lines begin appearing on the
printouts.
It was very easy to refill............ you use a soldering iron with a
length of 15mm copper pipe attached to melt a whole in the casing, sealing
it up afterward with some insulating tape. My refilled cartridge was fine


I have an Epson C1000, and I've only tried it once so far, so I can't
answer the question

However, I discovered that Epson secrete an 80mA 20mm fuse behind a pair
of electrodes at the other end of the cartridge to the "refill" end.

On first inserting the toner cartridge, the machine blows the fuse to
recognise that it's a new cartridge

So, now you know


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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:15:09 GMT, "Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk"
wrote:

Anyone found the optimal amount of times a laser toner cartrige can be
re-filled before printing becomes below acceptable?

Around 3 to 5 times.

sponix