On Jan 20, 8:58 pm, William Spencer <wspen...@jhu.edu> wrote: > Hi there: I am seeing bottles of refill toner for laser cartridges > being offered, and would like to solicit views on how sensible a > route that might be, rather than try to find an increasingly rare > cartridge for my poor old Apple 12/640 PS. How feasible is it to put > new toner into old cartridges? Messy? Reliable? Complicated? Etc. etc.
As you probably know, the Apple part number for that toner cartridge is M4683G/A, and using that or your model number, I found thousands of hits on Google for remanufactured/compatible cartridges, at least as low as $62+shipping (6,000 pages @ 5% coverage), and almost all of those I checked offered refilling. So, I don't think "rare" really applies, but you don't have the advantage my old Laserwriter Pro 630 has of having an HP equivalent. FYI, the other printers using your cartridge include: Xerox DocuPrint P12, GCC Elite 12/1200N,12/600,1212, IBM 4312, IBM Network Printer 12, and NEC Superscript 1260,1260N. BTW, believe it or not, toner is considered a toxic material and you need to take special care not to breathe in any of that fine polystyrene powder if you do undertake refilling yourself--and follow your communities' rules on disposal of "household toxic waste." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
