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About Toner
Cartridges
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Kept away from monitors, disk drives, and floppy disks. The mag-
nets in the cartridge can damage stored data.
The shelf life of an unopened cartridge is approximately 12 months.
Refilled Toner Cartridges
QMS does not recommend using refilled toner cartridges on this
printer. Refilled toner cartridges may produce variations in toner qual-
ity and reliability and may reduce the print quality of your documents.
In addition, toner leaks affect your warranty.
Toner Cartridge Life
In normal printing mode, a toner cartridge lasts for approximately
5,000 letter/A4-size prints at 5% coverage (a typical full-page busi-
ness letter is about 5% coverage) or 12 months after opening, which-
ever comes first.
Using the Administration/Engine/Conserve Toner option can further
extend the toner cartridge life (see “Conserving Toner” in the next
section).
Extending Toner Cartridge Life
Conserving Toner
To help you lower your printing costs, your printer has a feature called
Conserve Toner, which simulates draft-quality printing. The amount of
toner used during printing is reduced by screening the black dots in a
2:5 ratio. In other words, two black dots are printed for every five
black dots that would be printed in normal printing mode.
Conserve Toner can be enabled through the Administration/Engine/
Conserve Toner menu.
» Note: Conserve Toner is designed for draft printing only. Turn
Conserve Toner off when printing proof or final copies of documents
to avoid any possible distortion of patterns, halftones, or images.