Saturday, June 23, 2012

5 Ideas That Will Make You Think About Toner

By Thomas Berlinghof


Interesting Facts about Ink Toner Cartridges

Technology as it is today would not be the same if it weren't for ink toner cartridges for printers. The very first ink toner cartridge was put on the market in 1978, and technology has gone a long way since then. Back then, nobody really knew how far this technology would go and how popular these ink toner cartridges would eventually become. About ten years after the invention of ink toner cartridges, the technology of re-manufacturing the cartridges was introduced into the printing world. The best thing about the invention of both the ink toner cartridge and the invention of ink toner cartridge recycling is the fact that printing became affordable for nearly everyone.

The advent of ink toner cartridge re-manufacturing not only helped those with printers save money, but it helped keep empty cartridges out of the earth's landfills. Ink toner cartridges will be extremely harmful if they are not recycled or disposed of properly; if the ink runs into an underground water system, the water cannot be used and the entire area could become polluted.

What is an interesting distinction between ink cartridges and ink toner cartridges is the fact that the ink toner cartridges are much bigger. Do not be fooled; just because that is pretty much the only difference between ink cartridges and ink toner cartridges that is visible does not mean that it is the only difference between them at all. One of the largest, non-visible, examples of the difference between ink cartridges and ink toner cartridges is the way that they print ink onto paper.

Let's look at the ink cartridge without toner first; this cartridge contains a liquid ink mixture that is sprayed onto paper at the time of printing. On the other hand, ink cartridges with toner contain a powder mixture that gets heated to extremely high temperatures and is then fused onto the paper when printed. The ink toner cartridges actually have two electrodes manufactured into it, which helps bind fibers and create that clean print that we are all used to. The difference between the two types of cartridges can be seen once the paper is printed; prints from standard ink cartridges often take time to dry while prints from an ink toner cartridge can be touched immediately after printing without any smudging.

Another interesting fact about the ink toner cartridge is the fact that when they were first being introduced to printers, they were built in and could not be removed. As you could guess, this would mean that the owner would need to buy and entirely new printer every time they ran out of ink. High end printers today, however, are much more technologically advanced and work in a logical manner; you can now choose from four different cartridges that create nearly any color imaginable, and these cartridges can easily be replaced once they run out of ink.




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