Why you can't dry the laser printer toner

Both the Ink for printers Like toner, it is the main source of revenue for printer manufacturers. This is something we can see very easily just by comparing the price of the hardware they sell, with the price of the original ink or toner cartridges. Because, it is not only the price of each one of them, it is also important the number of them that we are going to consume during the shelf life from the printer itself which, if its quality is good, can be several years without problems.

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1 At most, the printer toner can be compacted

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That is why it is so important prevent ink from drying out printers. And who says "dry up" With regard to ink, it could also refer to the toner of laser printers. But, in this case I would be making a mistake, given that the toner used by this type of printers cannot dry out, since it is composed of a particularly fine powder.

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At most, the printer toner can be compacted

Inside a cartridge laser printer toner what is there is an extremely fine powder, as we have already mentioned, which is the one that adheres to the surface of the paper when we print a document with the printer. This powder is usually black, although it can also have different colors, based on whether our laser printer is monochrome or color.

When we leave our laser printer unused for quite some time, the most that can happen to us is that the toner ends up compacting inside the drum where is it located. However, this is not a major problem for the user, since it will not require us to change the toner we had for a new one. Generally, we will only have to take the drum out of the printer toner and shake it vigorously so that it turns back into a powder that can be used to print with it.

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This is, of course, an important advantage of laser printers versus inkjet printers and, probably, one of the main reasons why this type of printers have long been more popular among users than the old inkjet models. Since the toner can be inside the drum for months without degrading its performance at the time of printing, something that is impossible for the ink of the models that use injection, do. If we leave an ink cartridge unused for months, when we want to use it again it will be completely dry.