Printer technology has moved forward leaps and bounds in the last decade. We now have crisper, brighter, more reliable, and more cost-effective printers than what we had 10 years ago. We even have 3D printing available to us now, although additive manufacturing technology is still in its nascent stage. Despite all these amazing advancements, there’s this one bugbear that we simply can’t seem to get off our collective backs. We’re talking about printer paper jams, of course. Printer paper jams ... Keep Reading
Epson Printers and the Problem of Clogged Print Head Nozzles
There are numerous reasons why you don’t get as many pages out of your cartridges as you expect on the basis of what is written on the box. The obvious is that the pages you're printing require more ink than the standardised metric of “5% coverage”. However, another equally common and possibly more resolvable reason for low cartridge yields is clogged nozzles in the printer head. This is a very common problem that shows up with some printer brands more than others. For example, as good and ... Keep Reading
Drum Units Vs. Toner Cartridges: What’s The Difference?
There is a great amount of variation between different inkjet printer models and even between different brand inkjet printers in terms of structure and designing. While the same level of high variation doesn’t exist when it comes to laser printer brands and models, this doesn’t mean that there isn't some kind of variation. The variations are just more subtle in laser printers than in inkjet printers. For instance, take the dilemma of drum units vs. toner cartridges. Both these components of ... Keep Reading
Printer Security Tips For Your Peace of Mind
In an industry that is progressing technologically as quickly as the print industry, it can be difficult to keep abreast with all the changes that are taking place. However, whenever new technology developments take place, they are shadowed by associated threats. For instance, if you notice, in recent years, remote access to printers has become possible not only at the enterprise level but also at the home use level. What this has done is given rise to printer security risks stemming from ... Keep Reading
9 Vital Printer Maintenance Tips to Avoid Unwanted Expenses
Your printer is one of the precise machines you'll ever own. This doesn’t mean that it’s more advanced than your Ferrari or your secret teleportation device. It can't because printers work at incredibly small scale. For instance, the nozzles in your ink print head are measured in microns and there’s not even an easy way to explain how the laser drum moves toner particles around. This precision is precisely why you need to ensure that your printer is well maintained. It’s not that difficult ... Keep Reading
What Is The Shelf Life Of Printer Ink Cartridges?
When it comes to food, we are especially careful. We don’t eat old food. Many people decline to eat something from the morning leave alone the previous day. We do this because if we eat the wrong thing then the machine that is our body starts suffering. After all, food is fuel for our bodies. Most people never realise it but ink plays the same role in printers. Put wrong ink in your printer and your printer will get damaged just the way wrong food can damage our bodies. Because of such ... Keep Reading
Top 7 Common Printer Problems
There are certain common printer problems that most owners face once or twice in the life of their printers. These common printer problems don’t always mean a visit to the service centre, though. Sometimes, you can fix these common printer problems with minimal fuss, provided you have the right knowledge. Here is a list of some of the most common printer problems and what you can do about them. Common Printer Problem 1: Printer Tells Me to Stop Printing Because Ink Is Low You can't have ... Keep Reading
Solutions for Epson Compatible Ink Cartridge Errors
We’ve mentioned in earlier posts that there’s a heated battle going on between genuine ink cartridge manufacturers and third party ink cartridge manufacturers. The Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) rely on profits from their cartridges particularly because they sell their printers at a loss. However, this OEM strategy has resulted in there being a huge difference in OEM ink cartridges and third party ink cartridges. Since people started buying compatible ink cartridges to save money, ... Keep Reading
Blocked Printer Head: Printer Head Cleaning Process Explained!
What do you do when your inkjet printer starts giving out flawed prints? What do you do when there’s no ink on the print at all? All of us berate the printer and use some censored words a few times but what do we do next? What we do is get a new printing ink cartridge. Most of us don’t even bother considering the fact that there’s still ink in the cartridge and that the culprit is a blocked printer head. This is especially surprising because 98 percent of the time, the reason for white lines is ... Keep Reading
How to change Toner Cartridge
How to change toner cartridge 1. To quickly change toner cartridge, first turn the printer off and open printer door cover. Please refer to your printers operating manual if unsure how to this. 2. Once printer door is open, carefully remove expired toner cartridge from printer and place on bench. 3. CAUTION: Before opening plastic housing packaging with new toner cartridge, double check to ensure you have the correct toner cartridge by checking the model information on the outside of ... Keep Reading