I worked for Canon USA in digital camera and inkjet printer development and marketing for 5 years starting in 2000 when quality was finally becoming "good" although expensive. I recently purchased the Canon MF4150 Laser Printer as a replacement for my Canon inkjet office multi-function printer.
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Why don't these companies call them disposable printers?!?! I have to either break down and buy a new toner cartridge or go and get yet another printer! It seems to be cheaper to buy a new printer than buy the ink or toner cartridges.
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But now it sits next to me, flashing that red "error" light and mocks me. Now my pages are black, toner is everywhere and I wasted all that toner because it now resides in the vacuum! If the toner would have lasted a little longer, I would have married the machine til death do us part. Then beep, beep, beep, I'm out of toner again? Please! I just put toner in there! So I added more toner thinking maybe I didn't put enough in there. So I did what any other red-blooded American does, I added toner to the cartridge! I wasn't about to pay the $80 they wanted for the toner cartridge at Office Max and I had bought plenty of toner powder off of Ebay! It was working fine.for about a week. Telling me I'm out of toner! I shook it up and continued to print, afterall, I hadn't done much printing with it yet, it couldn't be low already! Then every other time I printed something, beep, beep, beep. For a month, this machine was the answer to all of my printer dillemas! (I have a printer graveyard here at the office and one at home.) Then one day, as I was printing coloring sheets for the kids and the nightmare beeping began-we all know that sound-it means something is wrong! It was the "error" beep. I use the printer at my preschool to print up statements for parents, payroll for my staff and coloring sheets for the kids, just to name a few. What I didn't know was that Canon uses what they call a "starter" toner cartridge that runs out a heck of a lot faster than a regular toner cartridge. It was a floor model and I knew it might have some wear on its exterior and maybe a decent amount of toner life in it. I bought it anyway because I knew it was a good laser printer and I couldn't beat the price. I bought the Canon MF4150 from a local Office Max- it was a floor model.