Archive for May, 2010
Dell 5230 / 5350 MICR Toner in R&D
We’ve just started working on a Dell 5350 / Dell 5230 MICR toner cartridge. We hoping to offer a high yield cartridge with a 21,000 page yield. This will be a new MICR cartridge, not remanufactured. The Dell cartridge is very similar to our Lexmark T650 MICR toner cartridge, the main difference being the chip which does not allow cross use of consumables between Lexmark and Dell printers.
Dell offers 4 variations of cartridges for this printer, although two varieties are really the same thing with a “use and return” policy. When you buy a “use and return” cartridge you are agreeing that you will return the cartridge to Dell and not let the empty fall into the hands of someone whom “heaven forbid” might actually recycle or remanufacture the cartridge. And for this Dell allows you to save $120 on the high yield cartridge and $60 on the standard or low yield cartridge. Dell seems to have modeled this practice after the Lexmark “Prebate” cartridge in which Lexmark offers you a rebate in advance if you agree to return the cartridge to Lexmark. All of this is done to keep the empty cartridges from being remanufactured or recycled. If the cartridge is remanufactured then that’s revenue that Lexmark / Dell does not receive.
The “use and return” or “prebate” policy to me seem to add to confusion. My guess is most customers just bought the cheapest one and never really felt then entered into a contract buy buying the “prebate” cartridge, and therefore what they did with it had no bearing on the “contract” but rather what was convenient.
Dell 5350n / 5350dn / 5230n/ 5230dn Part Numbers
| Yield | Dell Part # | Page Yield | Dell Retail |
| Std Yield “use and return” | 330-6989 | 7,000 | $139.99 |
| Std Yield | 330-6990 | 7,000 | $199.99 |
| High Yield “use and return” | 330-6968 | 21,000 | $299.99 |
| High Yield | 330-6991 | 21,000 | $419.99 |
We want your empty HP toner cartridges!
We’re now providing a free shipping label to purchase your empty toner cartridges for select HP models. We’ve always bought HP empty toner cartridges, but now we need your empties more than ever, so we’re providing shipping labels to pickup your empties. For more on our ECP (Empty Cartridge Purchase) program check out ECP Section on our website.
In talking with our customers, most customers felt it just wasn’t worth packaging and shipping their empty toner cartridges to us once they paid shipping. Hopefully by providing a free shipping label more customers will sell their empties to us for remanufacturing.
Click here for our current HP ECP Pricelist.
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Free Shipping Label – These empties qualify for a free shipping label |
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HP 8000, 5Si – C3909AHP 4100, 4150 – C8061X HP 4000, 4050 – C4127X HP 2400 – Q6511A, Q6511X HP P3015 – CE255A, CE255X |
HP P2015 – Q7553XHP P3005 – Q7551X HP P2035 – CE505A HP P2055 – CE505X HP P1005 – CB435A |
HP P1505 – CB436A HP P1102w – CE285A P1606dn – CE275A HP 4200 – Q1338A |
MICR for HP CE278A and CE285A Pass QC – On Sale Now
QC just cleared both the CE278A MICR toner cartridge for the LaserJet Pro P1606dn and the CE285A MICR toner cartridge for the HP LaserJet Pro P1102W. The MICR results are spectacular for both of these printers. We did find we had better results using a slightly bolder variation of the MICR font with the P1606dn as it produces lighter a lighter stroke.
MICR Toner for the P1600 Series including the HP P1606dn – CE278A
MICR Toner for the P1100 Series including the HP P1102w – CE285A
Here’s some screen shots from our MICRmate document analyzer on our P1606dn MICR Toner
As you can see from the histogram the MICR cartridge is producing an even signal strength.
We use a MICRmate analyzer to make sure every batch of MICR toner we use meets ANSI and ABA standards. In addition, in production, we use a RDM Verifier to make sure that your cartridge has MICR toner and meets our stringent standards.
New updated website almost complete
Several months ago we commissioned Jared Ray of Jared Ray Design to create a new look and feel for our website. We’re 75% completed. All that is left is expanding the About Us section, adding a new section with bio’s on our employees, and re-working the MICR toner cartridge navigation so it takes less clicks to get to the MICR toner cartridge you are looking for.
We’re going for a clean look that is pleasing to the eye. We’re trying to avoid unnecessary graphics or anything that might distract our customers from finding what they’re looking for. We started with the flash animation on the home page, then created an entirely new look, updated logo, new icons, and added a feed that shows the most recent blog entries on our home page. In addition, Jared has also re-skinned our Word-press blog to match the website. We think it looks great, what do you think? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.