HP Toner
Buy 2 HP Cartridges, Get $30 Home Depot Gift Card Rebate
HP has a new rebate good through the end of the year. Receive a $30 gift card with the purchase of two (2) identical select Original HP LaserJet print cartridges during the promotion period at the same time, on the same invoice. Your choice of gift cards: Darden Restaurants, L.L. Bean or the Home Depot. Note: Dual and tri-packs qualify as a single purchase only. Click here to download the HP Rebate Form
Expires 12/31/10
$40 Rebate when you buy two of the same HP toner cartridges
HP seems to have some sort of rebate deal every month. This one is an improvement over the restaurant rebate they had last month as they are paying cash. But the catch is you have to save your UPC’s and fill out the dreaded rebate form. Still the limit is 5, so you can get $200 back assuming you buy 10 cartridges, not bad. This rebate expires October 31, 2010.
Click here for the dreaded rebate form
HP’s Unsuccessful Battle Against Remanufactured Toner Cartridges
As you probably know, HP make far more from their inkjet and toner cartridges than they do from selling the printers. As with razor blades, HP makes their real money on toner cartridges. So it makes sense that HP will do what it can to discredit remanufactured toner cartridges as they threaten a very profitable segment of their revenue stream.
Recently HP wrote 4 myths about remanufactured toner cartridges. This article make an attempt to show how HP’s cartridges are less expensive and more reliable than remanufactured toner cartridges. The problem with the article is that HP unfairly insinuates that all remanufactured toner cartridges have the quality of remanufactured inkjet and color toner cartridges. We actually agree that in the case of inkjet and color toner cartridges HP has a superior product. For that reason we don’t sell a refilled inkjet cartridge. As far as color cartridges go, remanufactured color cartridges are a step below HP, but closing the gap. What HP does, is insinuate that the quality of remanufactured color cartridges is the same as the quality of monochrome cartridges, which is simply untrue. We’ve been remanufacturing monochrome toner cartridges since 1988 and the quality and reliability are quite good. In fact we have less than a 2% return rate, and while HP may have a lower rate (sub 1%) the cost saving is definitely there. Our industry has a long way to go on color manufacturing technology, but to say that the monochrome quality and reliability are the same as color is simply misleading.
HP states that their monochrome cartridges are 10% cheaper than remanufactured but they don’t give any data on how they come up with it other than explaining that once you consider the time you spend dealing with unreliable cartridges makes their cartridge cost less. Remanufactured cartridges from Advantage are typically 40% less than new HP.
HP then goes on to state that HP cartridges are more reliable than remanufactured toner cartridges, and the data they use is from the HP Color LaserJet CP3505. Had they used an HP monochrome toner cartridge such as the HP LaserJet p3005 (Q5771A toner) they would have had a much different result.
Finally HP states that it’s a myth that buying remanufactured cartridges are better for the environment. HP notes that most remanufacturers throw away their unusable cartridges. There you have to select a company that does recycle the empties, even when they are not usable. That’s we we provide “the box” to allow our customers to recycle not only the toner cartridge but many other items on our approved recycling list such as power cords, cell phones, batteries, glasses, etc. Furthermore everytime you buy a remanufactured cartridge, that is one less new cartridge that HP will have to remanufacture.
We like the HP product and believe it’s the best on the market, but feel their article was misleading.
New Toners for HP P1005, P1006, P1505
All come packaged in "the box"
We’ve just released 4 new Advantage Brand toner cartridges. Both a text and a MICR toner cartridge for the HP CB435A and CB436A. The CB435A is most commonly used in the HP P1005 and P1006, while the CB436A is most commonly used in the HP P1505.
The cartridges are all remanufactured and represent a savings of 30 – 35% over buying new HP cartridges. These cartridges are engineered to print the same page yield with the same print quality as a new HP toner cartridge.
All of these cartridges come packed in “the box” and are in stock as of today.
HP P1005, P1006 – CB435A Toner Cartridge
HP P1005, P1006 – CB435A MICR Toner Cartridge
HP P1505 – CB436A Toner Cartridge
HP P1505 – CB436A MICR Toner Cartridge
New Advantage Cartridges: HP CE255A, CE255X, CE505A, CE505X
Good news! We finally have remanufactured (Advantage Brand) cartridges (text, not MICR) for the HP P3015 Series and the HP P2035/P2055 laser printers. These cartridges are in stock and will ship same day. As always our cartridges are guaranteed to work to your satisfaction. Althought we have new MICR versions of these cartridges, we don’t expect to have the remanufactured MICR versions for several months.
CE505A – for HP P2035 and HP P2055 – Advantage Brand – Remanufactured
http://www.advlaser.com/HP-P2035-P2055-Toner-CE255A-p/rcce505ap.htm
HP CE505X – for HP P2055 – Advantage Brand – Remanufactured
http://www.advlaser.com/HP-P2055-Toner-CE255X-p/rcce505xp.htm
HP CE255A – for HP P3015 Series – Advantage Brand – Remanufactured
http://www.advlaser.com/HP-P3015-P3015d-P3015dn-Toner-Cartridge-CE255A-p/rcce255ap.htm
HP CE255X – for HP P3015 Series – Advantage Brand – Remanufactured
http://www.advlaser.com/HP-P3015-P3015d-P3015dn-Toner-Cartridge-CE255X-p/rcce255xp.htm
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Printer Tips from the Printer Tech. HP P4015 New Firmware Fix!
Since HP introduced us to the all new P4015 just a few months ago, 2, count em 2, firmware revisions have been released. The newest firmware is version 04.046.2A released in early September.
The P4015 is the newest reincarnation of the LaserJet 4000 series. The 4000 series has been the mainstay of savvy business’s around the world for a decade and change. While these are not massive workgroup printers like the 8000 and 9000 series, they do well for medium workgroups of 2-15 users. The toner cartridges have a respectable page yield, which leads to a lower cost per page. (see this post to understand the correlation between printer cost and cost per page.)
But, back to the Firmware. As with any HP new release, the P4015 has had a few hiccups. The rapid firmware releases on the part of HP are a positive indication that HP is really staying on the ball with all the bug fixes.
Here is a list of the published bug fixes that this newest revision corrects. Even if the problem you are having is not listed here, go ahead and update your firmware, some fixes are not listed.
• ANY/ANY is not available for Tray2 or the Envelope Feeder
• 49.4C02 error when posting status messages from Chai SOE concurrently
• Bad string displayed when inputting PIN code for stored job
• IOFs using “Internal Page” causes Menu Map, Configuration Page, or File Directory to be corrupted
• Information on the “Show ME How Supported Paper” page is incorrect
• PIN Printing does not work when the EWS is password protected
• Help Message not descriptive enough for the Order Maintenance Kit warning
• 4015 does not report USB stick SN correctly when it is 20 digits long
• Unable to print fonts in Hebrew
Enhancements
• Adaptive Printing Solution – Quiet Mode
• Forms Edge to Edge
P2035 New MICR Toner Cartridge Release
HP released a high yield toner cartridge, the CE505X, but the high yield only fits the P2055 series and will not fit in the P2035. Based on this we decided to initially release only the standard yield toner cartridge. We still have plans to release the high yield MICR toner cartridge once the market shows some demand.