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New Product: W1340A / W1340X MICR Toner for the HP LaserJet M209dw
We’ve just released two new MICR toner cartridges for the HP LaserJet M209 series. The M209dw is a low volume duplex printer that prints at 30ppm. This makes a perfect dedicated printer for printing small batches of checks. If you printing any volume of checks, upgrade to the M404n MICR laser printer. The lower cost per page of the M404n MICR will pay for it’s self over time with a 50% lower cost per page.
We offer two MICR toner cartridges for the HP LaserJet M209 series – W1340A and W1340X. The W1340A prints 1,100 pages. The W1340X prints 2,400 pages. We recommend the W1340X MICR Toner Cartridge as the cost per page drops from 11.36 cents to 6.87 cents. Again this printer is good for printing a low volume of checks.
W1340A MICR Toner Cartridge – 1,100 pages
W1340X MICR Toner Cartridge – 2,400 pages
Note: HP offers two variants of the LaserJet M209 – M209dw and M209dwe. The dwe variant requires that you register an account with HP and sign up for HP+. With HP+, HP is attempting to bypass the middleman and sell toner directly to the end user. If you sign up HP will spam you to buy their toner via HP+ through email and on your local computer through the driver. Yes you save $40 when you buy the printer, but we still recommend buying the dw and avoid the hassle of joining HP+ and suffering through a fair bit of spam from HP. HP does add an additional year of the HP warranty and gives you six months of free toner (up to 1,500 pages per month) when you sign up for HP+. So there is a plus side to HP+.
Here’s a complete compatibility list for the W1340A and W1340X MICR toner cartridges.
- HP LaserJet M209dw
- HP LaserJet M209dwe
- HP LaserJet M211d
- HP LaserJet M211dw
- HP LaserJet M233dw
- HP LaserJet M233sdn
- HP LaserJet M236dw
- HP LaserJet M236sdn
- HP LaserJet M236sdw
- HP LaserJet M234sdwe
- HP LaserJet M234sdw
- HP LaserJet M236d
- HP LaserJet M233sdw
- HP LaserJet M234dwe
- HP LaserJet M234dw
- HP LaserJet M234dwe
- HP LaserJet M234sdne
- HP LaserJet M234sdn
Advantage Customer Series – Kathleen Boyer
Kathleen Boyer, Office Administrator – Harris & Ruth Painting
Harris & Ruth Painting is one of the top commercial and industrial painting contractors located in West Covina, California. Kathleen Boyer, the company’s Office Administrator, was looking for a way to save her company money.
She found Advantage Laser Products online while doing her research on check printing. Learning how to print your own checks with a magnetic ink can be a tricky process, and so Kathleen decided to call Advantage for help.
“I called and spoke with John Miller, who educated me on the MICR font and ink requirements, and then worked with me to make sure my MICR font and placement was perfect, and my ink strength was perfect,” she said. “It was such a positive experience.”
Kathleen continues to enjoy personalized customer service from Advantage – she says she loves working with Advantage because, “they work hard, like me.” But most importantly, printing checks in-house brings Harris & Ruth Painting substantial savings every year.
About Advantage Laser Products
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Advantage Laser Products specializes in business checks and check printing supplies, including MICR toner, blank check paper, envelopes, laser printers and more. For over 30 years, Advantage Laser Products provided high-quality products and exceptional customer service every day. Advantage has been focused on offering products made in the USA, when possible. Each product purchased at Advantage Laser Products is backed by our one-year satisfaction guarantee, and many qualify for free shipping within the contiguous U.S. Visit Advantage today at www.advlaser.com or email us at info@advlaser.com for more information.
Order early – UPS and FedEx are slowing down during record breaking holiday season
This year UPS has forecast to ship more than 30 million packages daily for Christmas rush. FedEx predicts it will move a record-breaking 317 million shipments between Black Friday (November 27) and Christmas Eve.
That means things will slow down a bit. FedEx has not given us any notification that they will slow down, but based on what we are seeing from UPS, it would be safe to assume your packages might take an extra day (or two) for shipments this week. Our advice – Order early!
Despite our “Give the Gift of Toner” Christmas promotion, we are not experiencing a mad Christmas rush for MICR toner and blank check paper, so our shipments are shipping the same day ordered as always.
This is what we received from UPS…
All UPS 2nd Day Air® and UPS 3 Day Select® packages shipped on December 18 and 19 will require an additional day in transit. UPS 3 Day Select packages shipped on December 19 will be scheduled for delivery on December 26.
UPS 3 Day Select: Monday, December 18 (delivery on Friday, December 22)
UPS 2nd Day Air: Wednesday, December 20 (delivery on Friday, December 22)
UPS Next Day Air®: Thursday, December 21 (delivery on Friday, December 22)
Order online at www.advlaser.com and all orders placed before 4:00pm will ship the same day – as per usual.
Business Checks Survey Report
Advantage Laser Products conducted a survey to determine the dominant business function for checks, the prevalence of MICR-printing of checks by U.S. businesses, and the prevalence of check fraud and the use of positive pay check fraud prevention.
Check payment solutions play a critical role in the financial management of most organizations. Checks are intrinsic to the behavior of U.S. businesses and government agencies, and most organizations have structured their entire treasury management infrastructure around checks, from paying invoices to matching transactions. We believe there are three main reasons for why over 87% of our survey respondents’ organizations continue to use checks:
- Checks simply contain a lot more information than electronic payments, and may even have entire invoices attached to them. Checks simply contain a lot more information than electronic payments, and may even have entire invoices attached to them.
- Checks offer a cash flow advantage, by delaying the payment while the check is in the mail and during authentication process, often translating to days if not weeks of additional liquidity and interest income on cash.
- And with the use of very effective check fraud prevention solutions, such as positive pay, checks are also a safer payment solution than electronic payments, which are subject to hacking and cyber theft.
Until the security is enhanced in prevailing electronic payment methods, and an external, regulatory action forces a rapid transition to electronic transactions, many U.S. businesses will continue to use checks as the preferred payment solution.
Click here to view the full Survey Report
10 Tips for Improving Customer Experience and Growing Your Business
Creating great experiences for customers should be a top goal for every business. If you can offer an amazing experience, you can create repeat customers, increase sales and more effectively market your business in a number of different ways. Here are some tips from members of the online small business community for creating great customer experiences and growing your business in other ways.
- Optimize Your Website’s User Experience and Boost SEO
- Search engines don’t just look at keywords when determining how to rank websites. They also want to call attention to sites that provide great user experiences. So by optimizing the user experience of your website, you can also boost your SEO. In this LeapGo post, Jason Corgiat offers seven ways to optimize that experience.
Click here to discover the other 9 Tips from SmallBizTrends.com
ABOUT ADVANTAGE
Advantage Laser Products has been proudly supporting the needs of accounting and finance professionals for over 30 years. We offer pre-printed checks & envelopes and check printing supplies, such as MICR toner, check stock paper, MICR fonts and check printing software.
We understand that managing a company’s finances isn’t always easy. You can rely on Advantage to always stand by you and help you find smart solutions.
- consultative, personalized support
- fast turn-around
- affordable, quality products
We are proud to deliver consistent customer satisfaction. Customers rave about the excellent customer service and report that Advantage goes above and beyond what is expected.
New HP LaserJet P607, P608, P609 Series Includes Radical Design Change
We just received the new HP LaserJet M608N printer. This is a radical internal redesign from the previous few generations of Enterprise Level HP LaserJet printers. The M608 and it’s sisters the M607 and M609 will be replacing the M604, M605, M606 models as the go-to networked work-group monochrome printer in the HP lineup. This new line of printers now has three toner cartridges to choose from: CF237A (11,000 pgs), CF237X (25,000 pgs) and the CF237Y (41,000 pgs). As with previous generations, the lowest printer in the line, the M607 will not accept the two higher yield toner cartridges. The ability to accept the larger toner cartridges makes the operating costs much lower for the M608 and M609 series.
We are working on MICR Toner cartridges for the new series of toner cartridges. We don’t have an ETA of when the CF237A and CF237X MICR toner cartridges will be available. Stay tuned for more information…
Here are some pictures of the new P608n.
CF217A MICR Toner for HP M102w Release
HP CF217A MICR Toner Cartridge For HP M102w
Our CF217A MICR Toner Cartridge for the HP LaserJet M102w is in the final phases of quality assurance. We plan to release the New CF217A MICR Toner on December 5, 2016. The CF217A has a page yield of 1,600 pages. The MICR quality for printing checks is fantastic. Our CF217A MICR toner is a new MICR toner cartridge, not remanufactured. The CF217A MICR toner is compatible with the following HP Models: HP LaserJet M102w, M130fw MFP, M130fn MFP. The M102w uses a toner and an imaging cartridge. This new two cartridge system is something we’ve never seen from HP. In theory the two cartridge system should save you money, but in this case it really doesn’t. HP charges the same for this 1,600 page toner cartridge as they did for the 1,600 page CE285A used in the HP LaserJet P1102w (this was a single cartridge system). The imaging cartridge CF219A only needs to changed every 12,000 or once per 7.5 toner cartridges if you are printing 5% page coverage. Note, you don’t need a MICR imaging cartridge to print checks, just the MICR Toner Cartridge.
New HP CF217A MICR Toner Cartridge for M102w, M130fw, M130fn MFP – 17A MICR – $120.00 (Includes Free Ground Shipping)
HP Rebate Buy more. Save more.
HP Buy more. Save more Toner Cartridge Rebate
HP has a new rebate, “Buy more. Save more.” where the more you buy of original HP cartridges, the greater the rebate. Please note this rebate doesn’t apply to our new HP MICR Toner Cartridges, only new unmodified HP toner cartridges.
Offer
Buy $200 of Original HP Toner and receive a $20 Shell Gift Card, buy $300 of Original HP Toner and receive a $50 Shell Gift Card, or buy $500 of Original HP Toner and receive a $100 Shell Gift Card.
- Limit of two (2) Shell Gift Cards per qualifying end-user customer address during the Promotion Period.
- Original HP Toner must be purchased at the same time, on the same invoice during the Promotion Period.
Promotion Period
March 15–April 15, 2016
Download the Rebate PDF