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Dell 1700n...toner is low...what to do?

Nov 16, 2005 11:58AM PST

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Dell 1700n refills
Apr 1, 2007 6:22AM PDT

As a business consultant, I print thousands of pages a month and have clients that printing millions who constantly asked how they can reduce printing costs.

This led me to extensive research over a 3 year period.

Results:
Use a toner cartridge that contains the best MICR toner. MICR is magnetic toner designed primarily for printing checks, bank drafts and deposit slips. However, I discovered a number of advantages for using MICR cartridges to print ANY documents:
? The best MICR toner is darker than all other MICR toners and much darker than regular non-magnetic toner. This means you can turn your printer darkness setting down as low as 2 (on 1 to 10 slide scale) and get sharp crisp documents. This saves very large amounts of toner because most printers using regular laser toner require settings of from 5 to 8 on the 1 to 10 scale.
? MICR toner contains metal particles. This means it should last longer for documents being archived.
? Use a Triple or Max filled MICR toner cartridge from either www.checksnet.com or www.checktoner.com because they supply MICR cartridges with the darkest MICR toner, highest page yields and lowest cost to print each page.
CAUTION: I wasted a lot of money and time discovering all the differences between cartridge quality, MICR toner darkness variations, fact that some MICR toner flakes off paper and most importantly, other suppliers were not filling the cartridges to maximum capacity. I?m glad checksnet.com was the last supplier I found because results from trying their MICR toner cartridges made me realize how many factors contribute to achieving the lowest printing costs per page.

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Micr, WHY?
Apr 10, 2007 5:52AM PDT

Okay, I understand Micr cartridges, but from this guy's post he never mentioned needing Micr, he just wanted a cartridge that would print. Micr's are used for check writing and processing, not for general printing. Why spend the extra for a Micr cartridge when you don't have to???

As for replacement Dell 1700 cartridges, just visit your local O-ink or cartridge replacement shop, and they should have one that would work. There should be a guarantee behind it as well.