Buy 2 get 1 free laser cartridge sale

Posted in: blog by Jack on 23 March 2009

At Cartridge World San Diego we are having our first overstock sale on select laser (toner) cartridges.

From now until April 30th, buy two of the laser cartridges listed below and receive a third cartridge of the same type free. Now’s the best time to stock up for your Summer printing needs.

This offer applies to only the following remanufactured laser cartridges:

Brother

• TN-460
• TN-560
• TN-570

Canon

• E-40
• L-50

HP Monochrome

• 92298A/X (A=low yield X=high yield)
• C3903A
• C3906A
• C4092A
• C4127A/X
• C7115A
• C8061A/X
• Q1338A
• Q5942A/X
• Q6511A
• Q7553A

HP Color

• Q2670A
• Q2671A
• Q2672A
• Q2673A
• Q3960A
• Q3961A
• Q3962A
• Q3963A

You must be registered as a customer to take advantage of this offer. Registering is quick and easy, and your personal information will not be shared or sold to anyone. When you register as a customer, you can also select a school to receive 5% of your quarterly purchases as a part of our local school support program. It costs you nothing and helps our local schools purchase much needed supplies.

HP 80 wide format ink cartridges

Posted in: blog, inkjet by Jack on

Cartridge World San Diego is now able to refill and re-chip the HP 80 wide format ink cartridges.

There are three color cartridges and one black cartridge, each rated at a yield of 4,400 pages. These retail new for $154 at Staples. Buy them from Cartridge World and  save $60 on each cartridge. Our price for the HP 80 will be $93.99 per cartridge.

We use only uses premium inks developed by Cartridge World for each specific printer model. Our chips are provided by trusted vendors. Every Cartridge World refilled and remanufactured cartridge is fully guaranteed to perform to your satisfaction.

Since this is the first time we’ve been able to refill these HP 80s, we do not have a backstock of empty cartridges. If you have an HP wide format printer and need HP 80 cartridges refilled, please bring your empty cartridges with you. We don’t have any to do up ahead of time, and since this is a rarely requested cartridge, we most likely will not keep refilled cartridges on-hand.

How do injet printers work?

Posted in: blog, inkjet by Jack on 17 March 2009

Different types of inkjet printers form their droplets of ink in different ways. There are two main inkjet technologies currently used by printer manufacturers:

• Thermal bubble – Used by manufacturers such as Canon and Hewlett Packard, this method is commonly referred to as bubble jet. In a thermal inkjet printer, tiny resistors create heat, and this heat vaporizes ink to create a bubble. As the bubble expands, some of the ink is pushed out of a nozzle onto the paper. When the bubble “pops” (collapses), a vacuum is created. This pulls more ink into the print head from the cartridge. A typical bubble jet print head has 300 or 600 tiny nozzles, and all of them can fire a droplet simultaneously.
• Piezoelectric – Patented by Epson, this technology uses piezo crystals. A crystal is located at the back of the ink reservoir of each nozzle.

  

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  The crystal receives a tiny electric charge that causes it to vibrate. When the crystal vibrates inward, it forces a tiny amount of ink out of the nozzle. When it vibrates out, it pulls some more ink into the reservoir to replace the ink sprayed out.(Source-HowStuffWorks)

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Cartridge World ‘Refills’ Its Commitment to Earth Day

Posted in: Conservation, Recycling, blog by Jack on 8 March 2009

Via FranchiseWire:

As a mountain of e-waste continues to steadily form throughout our nation’s landfills, Cartridge World reinforces its commitment to environmental awareness by saluting Earth Day on April 22 and joining the millions Americans across the country in creating eco-friendly choices for consumers and businesses alike.

“With Earth Day fast approaching, now is the perfect time of year to remind consumers of the ways to create a ‘green’ home and work environment,” said Steven Yeffa, President of Cartridge World Americas. “Recycling programs for cans, bottles and papers are mainstream, but few realize the additional impact they can make by reusing and refilling printer ink cartridges.”

“With our continued commitment to recycling, we look forward to the day when reusing and refilling cartridges is as common as separating waste materials in our homes,” Yeffa added, estimating that Cartridge World will keep nine million cartridges out of landfills this year.

Cartridge World recommends the following tips for an environmentally friendly home office/business:

Reuse & refill empty ink jet and toner cartridges

Use rewriteable CDs and DVDs so they can be reused again

Print double sided

Decrease margin areas to fit more copy on a page

Double-check your drafts before you print

Communicate with team members about who will bring printouts to meetings

Turn off all electrical equipment at night

In keeping with its dedication to implement green practices, Cartridge World has developed numerous programs to make recycling printer cartridges easier for consumers and businesses. In conjunction with this year’s observance of Earth Day, Cartridge World has launched a “Recycle it @ Cartridge World” campaign that encourages consumers to recycle printer cartridges and cell phones at participating stores. All collections will be sent to Clover Technologies Group, the largest collector and recycler of cartridges and cell phones, to be broken down and reused into other products.

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Preventing data loss

Posted in: Recycling, Tips & Tricks, blog by Jack on 3 March 2009

For some time now we’ve been offering compatible film rolls for Panasonic and Brother fax machines. We can offer substantial savings compared to buying originals from the office supply store or the manufacturer online.

Brother fax film roll

There is a personal security issue involved with disposing of the used fax rolls, however, that most of our customers have been surprised to learn about. Just like carbon paper, these fax rolls retain a perfectly readable negative image of every fax received through the machine (faxes sent do not print out a copy and therefore do not leave an image on the film).

Think of the implications; a copy of every fax you’ve received on your fax machine is preserved and available to anyone who later finds that roll in the trash. Sepending on the type of business you conduct through faxing, the used roll of film may contain details of your bank accounts, mortgage, children’s name or schools, far too much information you do not want others to have access to.

I asked some friends who work in the field of physical security for their suggestions on how to destroy these rolls or make them unreadable. Since the technology involved is rather old (carbon paper was invented in the early 1800s and first produced commercially in the late 19th century), there are not many high-tech ways of dealing with it.

A few suggested feeding the roll through a paper shredder, though none of us were sure it wouldn’t wind up jamming the cutting teeth. I suspect the better quality shredders could deal with this, but cheaper models would likely choke on it.

Two of my friends said I should microwave the roll. I’m not positive what that might do to either the film or the microwave, thus I’m reluctant to experiment. If anyone has an old microwave and would like to try cooking a few sheets of carbon paper and reporting the results I’d be grateful. Just be very careful. I’m not responsible for injury or fire. Perhaps I should ask this of the Mythbusters.

Seriously, though, there must be a safe, environmentally friendly way to ensure the destruction of these rolls. Perhaps immersing them in a bucket of some sort of liquid (alcohol? Turpentine?) would make them unreadable.

Since I’m still not sure we’ve arrived at the best possible answer, I’m asking any of our readers to offer their own suggestions. Comment below and perhaps your’s will be the best solution for this. Meanwhile I’ll keep searching for a method I can recommend.

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