I have to wonder where they get the cartridges to drill? Tonerbuyer.com doesn't pay anything for the 98A cartridge and won't pay for you to ship it to them, and Office depot makes you buy $10 in purchase per month in order to qualify for $2 back in rewards for every ink or toner cartridge you recycle, so in order to make it worthwhile you have to pile up 10 used toner cartridges and take them into Office Depot, to basically get a buck a cartridge back - in store credit - which will pay for maybe an overpriced flash drive, lol.
The HP 4+ cartridge is old school and is actually held together by real screws. No drilling necessary, it can be disassembled, cleaned and reassembled like a normal part. I did ONE of those, once. Discovering then the importance of a toner vacuum. But it printed out fine for a while. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Keith Lofstrom Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 4:16 PM To: Michael Ewan <michaelewa...@gmail.com> Cc: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org>; Portland Linux/Unix Group <p...@pdxlinux.org> Subject: Re: [PLUG] HP Laserjet 4M+ ... Toner On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:15:01AM -0800, Michael Ewan wrote: > It seems there are a lot of sources for the #48 toner, is "decent" the > problem? Many of those are "drill-and-fill", without replacing seals and gaskets and streaky drums. After a second multihour strip-and-clean of my old HLPJ 4M, I also (like Galen) gave my old machine to younger owner. Besides toner, and slow processing speed, the 4M was a great machine - we used to claim that it could print tee-shirts. I currently use two HP4100N printers with duplexers, with one spare, but face a similar "crappy toner" risk. The risk is not as bad as my hp2605dn color laser printer, which has FOUR toner cartridges that can leak, and a fan that can suck leaked toner into the optical box. That is a two hour teardown and rebuild, just to wipe a bit of toner off the mirrors. When it works, it makes BEYOOTIFUL color images, unlike the Brother MFC-9440CN that I mostly use. The Brother is easy to fix and clean, but the images look like a child's crayon drawings. Sigh. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com
