Brother Printer Cartridges & Toner

About Brother Printer Toner Cartridges

Brother printer cartridges and toner can be differentiated by the printer where you use them. Toners are used in laser and LED printers, because it is a solid powder, while cartridges are used in inkjet printers, since it holds a liquid inside. Thus, you never place a cartridge in a laser printer; conversely, you never place a toner in an inkjet printer. Both are made of the same basic pigments: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The exact mix is a trade secret which depends on the manufacturer, but these can be easily reverse engineered to make a very good or exact duplicate of the formula.

About Brother Toner and Cartridge Refills

Brother printer cartridges and toner are the main income source for the printer companies. They sell these consumables at an inflated price, allowing them to sell the printer cheaply. This unfair trade practice is called a razor and blades business model. Toner and cartridge refills, however, are starting to change that. Most of these products come from third-party sources, but are a very cheap and effective way to keep the printer running. Contrary to claims that they can damage the printer, good quality cartridges and toners actually allow you to increase the printing output of your printer by as much as 33%.

About Laser Printers

Laser printers are printers which use a laser beam coupled with a rotating drum to make solid pigments adhere to the paper, forming very high quality images. This printer has a smaller dot pitch than the inkjet printer, due to the fact a laser can be focused more accurately than a spray of liquid. This allows you to create very high quality images and will allow you to potentially save on toner and cartridge expenses, particularly for larger-scale printing. While most laser printers are best for monochrome (black and white) images, advances in technology make color laser printers more attractive and viable as an option today.

About Brother Laser Printers

Brother has integrated the laser printer technology in most of its MFCs or multifunction printers and Brother printer cartridges. This is particularly true for monochrome printers, since the use of laser and toner will enable it to work as efficiently or even better than a stand-alone photocopier machine. Further advances in technology has also allowed you to be able to use LED printers, which are more reliable, cheaper to manufacture and can print colored images more reliably. Older laser printers have a lot of moving parts when printing colored images, so this may become a significant source of error.

About Brother Printers

Brother Industries is a Japanese manufacturing company specializing in MFCs, in addition to Brother printer cartridges. These MFCs or Multi-Function Centers are integrated office and home publishing hardware, such as scanners, printers and Xerox machines or photocopiers in one set-up. The printers are commonly inkjet, but most Brother printers are currently moving towards the laser printing trend, in order to make integration with the photocopier much easier and faster. This is because photocopiers and laser printers use the same general mechanism.