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boxterduke

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Hello,

Anyone has ever come up with a solution to find out how many pages gets used per toner?
The idea is to find out during a specific period of time how many pages the toner printed to be able to see what is cost effective, getting a new toner or fill it up.
 
Its too random of a thing to know for sure. I work for Ricoh and they give an estimate on their toner cartridges based on 10% coverage of toner accross the page. If you print things with lots of images or text your toner consumption will go up.

I service copiers and printers and I can tell you that I see 'refilled' cartridges fail 10 times more than new cartridges, which if you have a return warranty might not be such a bad thing I guess. Just saying with the experiences I've had I hate to walk into an office to work on something and see off brand or refilled cartridges.
 
I went to a couple of printers here in the office and will give one as an example.

H Color LaserJet 3600 using an HP certified toner HP Q6470A - Black
In 5 months the printer printed 5386 pages so that is around 1077 pages per months.
Now in the toner specs page, it stays it yields around 6000 pages so in theory each Q6470A should last more than 6 months for that specific printer taking in mind that the usage would stay close each month.

Is there anything that would calculate this for me automatically for each printer? Not sure if I'm being too optimistic about this or not.
 
On some models there is a supplies counter that will tell you how many pages have been printed on that cartridge since it was installed. I looked at the user manual for a LJ 3600 but it doesnt say for sure if it gives a specific counter for the cartridge, but you can check the life of the cartridge through the control panel.

Supplies life
The life of the print cartridge depends on usage patterns and the amount of toner that print jobs require. For example, when printing text at 5 percent coverage, an HP print cartridge lasts an average of 4,000 or 6,000 pages, depending on the printer model. (A typical business letter is about 5 percent coverage.) Cartridge life expectancy is reduced by frequently printing many 1- or 2-page jobs, heavy coverage, and automatic duplexing. At any time, you can verify the life expectancy by checking the print cartridge life.

Thats from the HP guide.

http://bizsupport.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00390162/c00390162.pdf

Check out page 108 in chapter 7 and it gives you some info about the life expectancy.
 
Thanks for the help, I will check it out and report back if I have any questions.
Have a great weekend and happy Halloween.
 
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