What happens if you refill a laser toner cartridge with different toner?

[daveymark]

I have a samsung 1710 laser, but I'm upgrading to a brother multifunction laser. I have a boatload of toner refills left that I was using for the samsung, I'm wondering if I can use the same toner refills for the brother machine? anyone tried this?

 

[mikeford]

AFAIK there are a couple different particle sizes and thats about it. You could always buy some toner for the brother and test it on the Samsung, thinking it might indicate performance in the reverse situation.

 

[wseyller]

I would not do this. Most toners are not compatible. The toner has to be compatible with the developer roller and the OPC Drum. Some toner is positively charged and some is negatively charge. Even Hp doesn't use the same toner in all of its engines. Even if the toner works you will most likely suffer from bad transfer efficiencies and the excessive waste toner will load up the waste bin causing problems. Toners have different flow agents that help toner transfer from the toner hopper to the paper. When using toner thats incompatible with the developer, sometimes flow agents with separate from toner particles causing them to stick to the developer and less than a thousand pages after build up of flow agents the toner will not be charged anymore buy the developer causing extremely light print. Different printers require differ toners. With difference in speeds and fusing temperatures the toner needs a different melting temperatures. If toner is not able to melt quick enough it will apply itself to the fusers Upper heat roller, and the lower pressure roller, which will cause fuser damage. A similiar example is when the HP4200/4300 printers came out it ran at 35ppm & 45ppm. The HP4100 printer ran in the neighborhood of 17ppm. People tried to use 4100 toner for 4200 toner due to the fact that dedicated 4200 toner wasn't developed yet, or wasn't good enough yet. The 4100 toner destroyed the fuser units which are expensive compared to a cartridge.

I would say that the samsung toner will not work in the brother as it is totally different. The least that would happen is that you damage your cartridge, and a good possibility that you will damage your printer.

 

[Mermaidman]

Sorta OT, but I read that Brother MFPs are not so good. Are you sure you wanna go that route?

 

[daveymark]

I've read all the reviews, but considering the fact that it's free, I'll take my chances

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
Sorta OT, but I read that Brother MFPs are not so good. Are you sure you wanna go that route?