Battling Against The Printer Companies
Next time you see a printer company leaflet, or recycling scheme or some literature that promotes their eco-friendliness I’d take it with a pinch of salt. You see one of the problems the companies have, is that you can now quite easily refill their printer cartridges and save the resources of manufacturing new cartridges. Sounds good, very environmentally friendly but the companies don’t like this and have come up with a solution.
Most printer companies are actively creating anti-refill toner chips or other devices. Some like the Brother HL4070CDW have little variations but the goal is the same – stop people reusing toner cartridges and buy new or recycled ones from them. If you think about it the companies are using resources to create something (the toner killer chips) that’s sole purpose is to stop people being environmentally friendly. It’s a terrible waste especially as the average toner cartridge takes about 3-4 liters of oil to produce. Perhaps one day they will do the right thing and accept a profit fall in order to make these cartridges refillable.
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