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To help our growing customer base, we have put together some common discussion items on refilling your empty laser toner cartridge below for you...
Printer Test Pages
You can use the following test pages to reduce the amount of toner left in your cartridge (by colour).
The "full colour" pages are also useful for checking if your cartridge is suffering from any printing issues - prior to refill. Print defects will normally appear as lines, dots, spots or smudges which will repeat at intervals down the page.
To reduce the amount of toner left in a colour cartridge - choose the colour you wish to use up i.e. Magenta - download the "magenta page" and print until the Magenta colour starts to fades from the page. This will make emptying the cartridge less messy.
Which colour cartridge is low on toner?
If you have overriden the chip on a cartridge, it can be difficult to tell which colour is then low on toner . Use the Color Fade page above to help determine which cartridge needs to be refilled
Print the page a number of times until the fade out is clearly visible
- Black fading - Black is low
- Blue fading - Cyan is low
- Blue and Orange fading - Magenta is low
- Yellow and Orange - Yellow is low
Common Errors
Konica Minolta Magicolor "Cartridge not installed"
Different printer manufacturers use different cartridge designs so your cartridge might vary in exact detail from the examples above, but the principle will be the same. You may also need to change a chip or reset the cartridge - our instructions will show you how.
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