Thursday, June 24, 2010

Taking advantage of cross reference in printers


Finding toner cartridges for your printer is a difficult process, even more when you are trying to save money finding the best value in the market. A good idea to find great deals is to look for similar references to your printer that share the same toner cartridges. Printer and copier manufacturers share technologies or brand their products differently in many parts of the world, so, at the end, some printers end up being the same machine but whit total different names. Take the case of Ricoh. They have so many different brands all over the world that is very hard to keep up with their compatibilities. Savin, Lanier, Gestetner, and Ricoh are the same company. For example, the popular Ricoh CL7200 toner, is the same than the Lanier LP332c, and the Savin CLP 128. In many cases you can find that the very same products are cheaper for Lanier, or for Ricoh, but they end up being the exact same cartridge. Another similar situation happens when an accepted brand buys the rights to distribute a printer in some country, from a not that well known manufacturer. That is exactly why is so important to do some research before buying a printer, the exact same model can be more expensive under a specific brand. Cross references for the same brand are a key issue as well. Manufacturers like brother and Sharp, try to make one single cartridge extremely compatible with many printer lines. For example, the Sharp AL100 can be used in at least 15 different printer references, and again, you can find the same cartridge at different price ranges. At imagetoner.com we tried to save as much money as possible to our buyers. Ask us about the compatibility for your printer if you have any questions.