SAMSUNG printer is fading.

[inquiring]

My SAMSUNG ML-1430 laser printer has printed exactly 814 pages (nearly all of which was on TONER SAVER mode)--the outer edges of text near the margins are beginning to fade. I know that this means that the toner in the cartridge is beginning to go low. Ive shaken the toner cartridge but it has not helped. Is SAMSUNG ripping me off by selling a cheapo laser printer which now provides a number of copies less than 1/3rd of what I am accustomed too on my HP laser printer?
Thanks.

 

[M39shadow]

Not really unless the Samsung Laser refils cost the same. You see the same thing in Inkjets. Some people think all ink cartridges are the same but they are not. Some have more or less ink in them than others. Some include a print head and some are just ink (the printhead stays in the machine and requires replacement later at big dollars).

As I've mentioned before. Cost of toner or cartridge means absolutely nothing. At the end of the day, the most important stat is cost per page. In the case of inkjets there is a bit more to it. You also have to ask just exactly what am I getting when I change print cartridges (is a new print head included or not). A lot of cost per page analysis does not figure in the cost of new print heads which do require changing or service after a period of time.

 

[inquiring]

BTW I printed text at 5% coverage which normally gets me about 2000-3000 pages with my HP. I see no cost advantage to the SAMSUNG if I have to spring for a toner refill every 800 sheet at $40 a pop--time to write Mr. Sam Sung a letter and convey my eminent dissatisfaction with their printer output.

 

[inquiring]

Ink jets are Gods gift to the marketing world--we'll give ya the printer thern bleed ya on the ink (cartridges). Most Americans have fallen prey to this ill gotten logic and I still avoid using my ink jet for that reason, unless I absolutely have to have color-if I manufacture a greeting card for example. I still rely on my lasers as my workhorses and have drooled for years about someday owning a color laser--until I discovered the cost of replacing those laser color cartridges. I guess there is no avoiding the replacement cost of ink, toner, etc unless-one opts to dump their rig and go back to pen and paper. Hey, I've got an old Olympic typewriter here in primo condition. Anyone want to buy it? He he.

 

[EdtheROM]

Just buy the way a toner cartridge works, the edges fade first as the toner is used up.

You can try taking out the cartridge and gently rocking it sides several time as if you were trying to even out a pile of sand inside it.

This often works several times, until it gets spotty in the middle as well as the edges.

Or you have a bad cartridge.



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