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Let’s face it, toner cartridges are insanely expensive. If you bought your printer for roughly $400 it will probably only take you three toner cartridge replacements or less before you have surpassed the original price of the printer, and for many mid-sized businesses in America that number can be reached in only a few months. Fortunately there are several options available for consumers looking to save money on their replacement toner cartridges: toner cartridges refill kits, generic “compatible” cartridges, and even a trick to sweeten the deal—but we’ll get to that part later.

The first, and probably most dependable option available to the stingy shopper is to purchase a third party “compatible” toner cartridge. These replacement cartridges are designed and built to match the original manufacturer specifications of the model they emulate. This option provides you with a fully functional refurbished cartridge for significantly less than you would pay to buy brand new toner cartridges. Refill kits, on the other hand, are slightly less dependable due to making your own modifications to the original cartridge, but can allow you to use the same cartridges over and over multiple times by filling the reservoir with more toner whenever it runs out. This works out to be a phenomenal deal when considering how little the toner inside actually effects the price of a new cartridge compared to the plastic and metal housing of the toner cartridges. Refill kits can result in decreased printing quality if done wrong, however, so be extremely careful when using this option.

The last way to save money on toner is a trick that the printing companies really do not want you to know. Many toner cartridges have little plastic windows on the side to allow the printer to read the level of toner left inside; but most printers are set to tell you the cartridge is empty before you run out of toner. To fix this issue just cover the window with a small piece of electrical tape, this will trick the printer into thinking the cartridge is always full and allow you to squeeze up to several hundred more pages out of your cartridge before the end.