laserjet reset chip?

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Hi all,

I had an old HP Laserjet 2100 (10+ years old) that finally bit the dust. I was hoping I could resurrect it, because I didn't want to deal with the new toner cartridges and their chips that count pages, etc. Well I finally bit the bullet and consolidated into an "all-in-one" with laser color printing, network scanning, etc (HP cm1312 nfi)

Well sure enough the toner cartridge counted out exactly ~1000 pages (or whatever the count is) and then refused to print again until I bought a new cartridge. I'm sure there is *plenty* of toner left in the cartridge.

I've surfed google a bit but most of the sites that talk about reset chips don't seem to be very reputable. Is there some techie tip to reset these chips or some otherwise reputable website I can go to for the answers on this? I quite simply refuse to buy a $80 toner cartridge ever two months for this thing, and throw away perfectly good toner.

I would be considered an "advanced" computer user probably.. I'm not afraid to pull things apart.
 
That was helpful.

Just a thought, but I'm hoping future responses could include something devoted to the actual question I posed.
 
You can buy the reset chips alone on ebay for around $20 shipped, or a little more for the chip + toner refill. Just search for your model (cm1312 reset chip).

A drum probably won't last longer than a couple of refills, so you will still be replacing the toner cartridge. My last 2 Samsung laser printers would only get around 5000-6000 pages out of the cartridge before it started streaking or ghosting.
 
Hehe, if I had anything for the original question, I would have mentioned it. I noticed you mentioned you pay $80 for toner... which is about twice the amount I pay. So, I just wanted to point out that there are cheaper toner alternatives out there. ;)
 
Are you serious, they locked you in to a certain amount of pages? I have dozens of HP 4000 series at work and they don't do this. Is this something they are doing now days?
 
iunno, I have well over 1000 pages on my current 1320n toner cartridge. /shrug
 
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