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Konica Minolta 5340 Toner Refills Affordable Option to Single Pass Printing

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S. Ethelbard

Color Konica Minolta printers, like most color laser printers, operate with CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) toner cartridges. Most of the time, the user encounters a consumption ratio of 4:1 for supplied laser toner cartridges. The ratio implies that it takes around 4 or more cartridge replacements of the black or monochromatic unit before any of the color cartridges runs out of laser toner. Given this observation, the user must have already used up a total of 8 cartridges when toner supply for the 3 color cartridges finally dried up to necessitate the replacement of the entire cartridge set.

While rising cost of laser printer supplies is already an enduring issue among printer users, new printer technology developed likewise added an additional cost component to laser printing. The 5430DL Konica Minolta printer for instance is equipped with the latest single pass print engine a printer technology utilizing a toner cartridge and OPC drum combo to produce laser prints. And while Konica Minolta 5340 toner cartridges can easily run out of toner supply following a cycle of heavy print loads, the bundled OPC drum does not follow a similar life cycle.

The OPC drum toner cartridge combo likely raises questions about the cost-efficiency of using these consumables. Ideally, Konica Minolta printer cartridges should have a similar end life as the OPC Drum, or cartridge replacements becomes really expensive. For one, integrating the OPC drum into the toner cartridge obviously hikes up the consumables price tag. Moreover, disposing a still functioning OPC Drum of a pronounced empty printer toner cartridge appears to be a very wasteful practice. In most designs the OPC Drum life can outlast toner supplied by up to 4 times

For most users, this appears to be a very costly setup. Each OEM cartridge and OPC Drum combo retails for around $230 so that to replace the entire CMYK laser toner cartridge set would cost the user almost $1,000. In this case, toner refills became a welcome solution.

For instance, the Cyan toner cartridge 1710580 004 generates a yield of 6,000 pages based on the Industry standard 5% coverage and the OPC Drum is expected to last 30,000 pages again based on 5% coverage. Thus to keep the toner supply abreast with OPC Drum life, printer toner refills must be administered. This then becomes a big boon to users as do it yourself toner refill kits are sold at around $40 per refill that translates to only $160 for all the CMYK toner cartridges.

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