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Compatible Laser Toner Cartridges

Recently, there has been a huge legal and investigative battle with people selling "compatible" laser toner cartridges. Often, a distributor will sell their defective, ineffective, or even damaging laser toner cartridges to unsuspecting resellers. These cartridges will make weak prints, cause messy ink spray, and may cause serious damage to your printer. So be sure to buy cartridges from an authorized reseller that the manufacturer audits. Check the manufacturer's website to obtain a list of authorized resellers.

Beware of laser toner cartridges that are priced way below market standard. Bad or old packaging should also send up a red flag for phony laser toner cartridges.

Finally, if your cartridge runs out of ink too quickly, gives messy prints, or damages your printer, don't buy from the same retailer again.

This is not to say that all compatible toner cartridges are bunk. But if you're going to spend tens of dollars on a cartridge, why risk it?

Remanufactured Laser Toner Cartridges

Most manufacturers, and some third-party distributors, will give you money or discounts in exchange for your old laser toner cartridges. They in turn replace the guts of the cartridge, refill it with toner, and resell it at a big discount. In many cases, the quality is almost exactly the same as new. For example, a black-ink cartridge for an Epson Stylus Color 880 costs $27 from Epson, but only $12 from Rhinotek.

Laser Toner Info provides detailed information about later toner cartridges and refills, as well as reviews of laser toner products. Laser Toner Info is the sister site of Brochure Printing Web.

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Aishwarya Telecom Limited, a Hyderabad-based player in the telecom testing and measurement segment, has been allotted three acres at the electronic hardware special economic zone (SEZ) on the outskirts of Hyderabad by the Electronic Industries Association of Andhra Pradesh (ELIAP).
• Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive (Slashdot)
Sportsqs points out a story at Coding Horror which begins: "Given the rapid advance of Moore's Law, when does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I'd say almost always. Consider the average programmer salary here in the US. You probably have several of these programmer guys or gals on staff. I can't speak to how much your servers may cost, or how many of ...
• The Hardware Behind WebOS: Palm Pre (Digital Trends)
Palm has released a smoking new piece of hardware to accompany its long-awaited OS, and it brings many of the features hardcore smartphone users have been waiting for.
• IBM layoffs will impact hardware workers (Muzi)
Employees of IBM's hardware segment are likely to be most affected by the axe hanging over the jobs of 16,000 Big Blue staff. Media reports of 16,000 job cuts have created a sense of fear and insecurity in the minds of IBM employees here in Bangalore.

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