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> the best part Is that you can easily circumevent the way this particular brand tries to cheat you.

• zinekeller 4y ago
  It's less of cheating and more of toner is not heavy enough to maintain the desired darkness (it's a passive toner system, the toner uses its own weight to print). It's honestly wasteful but unfortunately active toner systems costs more and is much heavier than the already-heavy passive toner systems.
  • linuxftw 4y ago
    Sounds like you could remove the leftover toner from the first canister and add it to a second one after some use, reducing waste and not having the darkness issues. But they're not refillable, you might say. Usually they're thinwalled plastic, nothing a little knife and some duct tape can't solve.
    • TomSwirly 4y ago
      > Sounds like you could remove the leftover toner from the first canister I am big on antiwaste, but if you have ever accidentally released toner, you realize that it's a very fine powder that aerosolizes easily and stains everything it touches.