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Now in Stock at Stinkyink Towers is the remanufactured HP Q7551X High Capacity black toner cartridge. This cartridge fits the HP Laserjet P3005 and gives a page yield of about 13,000 Pages for only £64.99 + VAT (cheaper than the original LOW yield HP cartridge). This cartrdige will save you money and help the environment as well

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Just released, the team at Stinkyink Towers are pleased to be able to announce that they now have stock of remanufactued toner cartridges compatible with HP Q7553X High Capacity Black toner cartridge.

This toner cartridge fits the HP Laserjet P2015, at only £44.90 + VAT this toner cartridge will save you money and helps the environment as well - we are all winners!

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Following complaints at the start of the year by the Cartridge recycling industry about HP’s adverts asking if you would re-use food, they are in the dock again.

Kyocera have complained to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about their (HP’s) advertisments for the new CP3505 Colour Laserjet printer which claim that the only consumables that need replacing are the toner cartridges. Most other laser printers also need to have the printing drum replaced regularly.

“HP’s marketing approach is typical of the ’smoke and mirrors’ tactics that have been employed by our competitors for many years,” said Ian Joslin, general manager at Kyocera UK.

“It obscures the short-life, high-waste nature of HP’s technology and the consequent costs that will be passed on to users.

“The fact is that the HP Colour LaserJet CP3505 is a throwaway product, designed to be disposed of at the end of its short life. To dress this up in claims of economy is disingenuous and amounts to false advertising” he said.

We will wait with baited breath for a judgement and let you know the results

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With all the recent controversy surrounding the amount of ink left in printer cartridges when the printer tells you that they are empty we are conducting an interesting experiment here at Stinkyink Towers. We have a HP colour laserjet Multi Function Machine which we use as the office Fax/Copier and general colour printer. We have had a message on the little screen saying order supplies and indicating that the black, cyan, yellow and Imaging Drum all need replacing. These have been on screen for six weeks now and guess what? - it just keeps right on printing!. We’ve got the stock of consumables here so I’m just going to let it keep going until it actually stops printing. It will be very interesting seeing how much extra we get out of the toner cartridges

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HP Laserjet 1020 Reviewed:

At a glance

• • Reviewers rating: 6.5 Good
• • The good: Very inexpensive; good text quality; print costs are low; manual feed tray for one-off prints.
• • The bad: No built-in duplexer; not network-ready; graphics print quality needs improvement.
• • The bottom line: The HP LaserJet 1020 is a good deal for home users who have light print needs, but just a little bit more money can get you more features and better print quality.

The HP LaserJet 1020 is an inexpensive monochrome laser printer for home users with light printing needs. Its print speeds and quality aren’t stellar, but at £112.99 (online at PCWorld), it’s hard to fault it too much. For that price, you get a very basic and compact printer that does a serviceable job. If you can spare an additional £20, however, the Lexmark E250dn comes with a duplexer and network card installed, it also offer better print quality.
The compact LaserJet 1020 measures just 14.6 inches wide, 9.5 inches deep, and 8.2 inches tall, and weighs a light 11 pounds. The front panel folds open to reveal a 150-sheet input tray and a single-sheet manual input tray, both of which have adjustable paper guides. The output tray resides on the top of the printer and includes a fold-out paper support.

It comes with a 234MHz processor and just 2MB of onboard memory. It has just a USB connection, so it’s better for single users than a multiuser environment. The Lexmark comes network-ready and with a Duplex option giving the opportunity for double sided printing.

The LaserJet 1020’s diminutive size is due to the fact that it’s a mono printer, and therefore contains only one toner the Q2612A cartridge. You can access the cartridge by popping open the printer’s top panel. Replacement cartridges cost £49.98 at Stinkyink.Com or £37.59 for a refilled cartridge, and are good for up to about 2,000 prints, which comes out to about £0.025 for the original or £0.018 per page from the refilled cartridge - not bad for a budget laser printer and in line with Lexmark E250d’s £0.02 per page. The recommended monthly duty cycle is 5,000 prints, so the LaserJet 1020 is best suited for home users with low to moderate print needs.

The HP LaserJet 1020’s speed and quality are not the best among its competition, but not terrible, either. It printed text at a rate of 12.52ppm (pages per minute) and graphics at a rate of 12.61ppm. The Lexmark E250d was much faster with graphics but slower with text.

The LaserJet 1020’s text quality was excellent, though not perfect: upon very close examination, we noticed that some characters had edges that weren’t perfectly sharp and overall, the text could stand to be a bit darker. Again, we were looking very closely. The graphics print didn’t fare as well as the text print, though. Solid blocks of toner showed a blotchy quality that we didn’t see with the Lexmark. The photo elements on the page weren’t as smoothly rendered as we would’ve liked. We preferred the quality of the Lexmark printer over that of the HP, but overall, the HP LaserJet 1020 is good enough for casual home users.

HP backs the LaserJet 1020 with a standard one-year warranty, which is on par with the competition. HP’s Web site has downloadable drivers, software, and manuals; e-mail and online chat tech support; FAQs; and a troubleshooting guide.

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