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Does any one have any info or experience's with different Toners, I recently run out in my Canon LBP1120 and there are refill centres here selling them for around US$20 so no huge loss if I killed it,   anyway I couldn't get the side cover on the cartridge to come apart without trashing it in some way but could clearly see the Plastic Cap under this cover ... so what the hell, I drilled a 5/8 Hole, cleaned up the berries and used a Rubber Seal from a syringe to seal it up. I did get some Toner that was for a Canon NP6650 Copier, the refilled cartridge works fine now but the Toner is a few shades lighter than the origional stuff.

Any comments about what makes toner darker or lighter, I would imagine that just maybe a Finer powder may give better results and of course the actual colour would have something to do with it.

Thanks
Thomas

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On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 09:38:15 +0700, Thomas <teecee@...> wrote:

>
> Any comments about what makes toner darker or lighter, I would imagine  
> that just maybe a Finer powder may
> give better results and of course the actual colour would have something  
> to do with it.
> Thanks
> Thomas


I found there are huge differences in toner.
Trying to refill a EP-S with copier toner resulted in WAY too much toner  
was applied to the magnetic transfer drum. There is a metal strip  
restricting the amount, which normally has plastic spacers to make a small  
gap (maybe .2mm). i filed away the spacers totally to make the gap as  
small as possible, which kind of worked. But the quality of the print is  
not OK and it is lighter too.


In general i have much better TT results with genuine toner, which costs  
no more than refill at ebay. The HP toner is much darker on paper than  
remanufactured one it seems.


ST