After watching a couple of the cartridge rebuilding videos that were posted on my last thread, it has me thinking that I might be able to rebuild a couple of these old cartridges I have sitting around. The printer is a 10-year old Samsung ML-1450.
Here's the question. If a cartridge is at the point where it's printing real light, even though it's full of toner, is it shot at that point? Will I ever be able to resurrect it? When I say printing light, it's not the way it looks when you're getting low on toner. The coverage is still 100% there. It's just faint. And it doesn't seem to stick to the page very well. I've printed shipping labels like this, where the package was returned for some reason. After traveling across the country, you can barely read the label. (I started putting clear shipping tape on these labels, covering everything important, until I got a new cartridge.) On these cartridges, I don't think there are any other problems, like ghosting, or that melting plastic smell that some of them make when they're no good anymore.
Sorry if it's a confusing question. I just don't want to buy the toner, take the time to rebuild the cartridge, and then have it still print just as light. Anybody have any experience with this situation?
Thanks!
IB
Here's the question. If a cartridge is at the point where it's printing real light, even though it's full of toner, is it shot at that point? Will I ever be able to resurrect it? When I say printing light, it's not the way it looks when you're getting low on toner. The coverage is still 100% there. It's just faint. And it doesn't seem to stick to the page very well. I've printed shipping labels like this, where the package was returned for some reason. After traveling across the country, you can barely read the label. (I started putting clear shipping tape on these labels, covering everything important, until I got a new cartridge.) On these cartridges, I don't think there are any other problems, like ghosting, or that melting plastic smell that some of them make when they're no good anymore.
Sorry if it's a confusing question. I just don't want to buy the toner, take the time to rebuild the cartridge, and then have it still print just as light. Anybody have any experience with this situation?
Thanks!
IB