Recharge your toner cartridges with our bottles of matched toners and laser cartridge parts at a fraction of the cost of buying a brand new OEM toner cartridge. Or, purchase our remanufactured toner cartridges and compatible toner cartridges.

To get started, choose your laser brand from the options below or type your laser printer or laser cartridge model into the search box.

Recharge Your Own Toner Cartridges!

Just as with ink cartridges, most toner cartridges can be easily and successfully refilled and re-used, provided that you have the proper toners and tools. One toner powder is not necessarily the same as the next, so first and foremost when recharging your own toner cartridges is to use the proper toner with the proper toner cartridge. To help you find the toner that you need for your specific laser machine, we carry a large number of different formulations of toners for both monochrome and color laser printers, laser copiers and laser faxes.

Once you have the proper toner at hand, you can turn your attention to the appropriate method for recharging your particular toner cartridge. In general, toner cartridges fall into one of four categories, based on how you recharge them.

Method #1: Unplug or Uncap

Some toner cartridges have an easily accessible plug on the outside that leads directly to the toner hopper (the toner hopper is the chamber that stores the as yet unused toner powder). In many cases, simply removing the toner hopper plug/cap and pouring in new toner will do the trick, though in some cases there will be a fuse, chip or other mechanism to reset. The unplug/uncap method applies to the most popular Brother toner cartridges, a small number of color Lexmark toner cartridges and a goodly number of monochrome and color toner cartridges from Okidata.

Method #2: Melt a Hole

With quite a few toner cartridges from Canon and HP and some older ones from Lexmark and IBM, there either is no toner hopper plug, or the plug is largely inaccessible unless the toner cartridge is disassembled to a large extent. While some may relish the idea of taking apart their toner cartridge and seeing the laser "guts" inside, most small office and home users just want to add more toner and print away. To accomplish this, we have developed a special tool to melt a precise hole in the plastic wall of the toner hopper, through which new toner can be funneled. When done, simply re-plug the hole with our specially-sized orange plugs.

The refilling tool comes in a kit with plugs, a funnel, and instructions. Click here for more information on our toner hopper tool kit.

Method #3: Remove Endplate and Unplug

This toner cartridge recharging category is very similar to the unplug/uncap method, except that the toner hopper plug is hidden behind one of the toner cartridge's endplates. In most cases, the endplates are held in placed by one or more screws (generally not more than four): remove the screw(s) and the endplate comes off, revealing the toner hopper plug underneath.

The next step is then to funnel in new toner, replug the hopper and re-attach the endplate. Some toner cartridges in this category also require that a chip or fuse be replaced, but in most cases we have replacements already available.

Method #4: Remove Top of Toner Hopper

The toner cartridges in this category are less common than the other three categories, but are refilled in a way that is very similar to the "Remove Endplate and Unplug" toner cartridges, except that there is no plug to worry about. With these toner cartridges, the top of the cartridge is also to the top of the toner hopper -- some people refer to this toner cartridge style as having "open toner hopper" structure. After removing the top of the toner hopper, simply pour your new toner directly into the toner hopper chamber. When done, reattach the top of the toner cartridge.

Other laser printing and toner recharging articles:

 

Terms and Conditions of Sale | © 1995 - 2008 Computer Friends, Inc. All Rights Reserved.