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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Discussion on Toner Transfer Method

From: Stefan Trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2010-01-27

What I've done is look for private one-off sales of surplus toner.
It's people who sell it because they no longer have the printer or
something. Often indicated by grainy bad photos ;-)

You don't want any cunning professional toner sellers which hide the
fact that is a fake in the smallprint.

ST

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Brian Lalor <blalor@...> wrote:

> I spent a few days looking for used cartridges on eBay and finally
> went to Staples and spent twice as much.  I had to parse every word of
> every listing (and there are quite a few listings, even for my antique
> LJ 4050), or ask the seller directly, to determine if it was really a
> cartridge made by HP.  The vast majority — even those that use
> pictures of HP products — are knockoffs.  It’s immensely frustrating.
>