Eco Friendly Ink and Toner Cartridges

What is important you when buying ink and toner cartridges? Is it the price, the print quality, or the environmentally friendly way the cartridge has been manufactured? These questions are all relevant in some form to all of us who use a printer either at home or in the office. In these times of austerity many would say that the price of the toner ink is the first priority. A valid point, as many businesses prefer to do their own in-house printing of leaflets and reports instead of using the commercial printer and thus cutting out that expense. In 2012 one of the businesses hardest hit by the recession is the commercial printer with more and more businesses printing their own letterheads and using email instead where possible. A business can print out a good quality letterhead economically providing it has a good quality paper and a high quality printer using high quality toner ink. For a business such as a firm of Chartered Accountants who print reports on a weekly basis or a busy solicitors office the ink and toner bill can be enormous at the end of the year. One way to get that bill reduced is by buying high quality ink and toner.

The effect that toner ink cartridges have on the environment is a concern to many people as they try to think of ways to reduce the pollution on our planet. Recycling ink toner cartridges has to be the way forward in helping this cause. If we are able to re-use 90 per cent of our cartridges, that means we are using less plastics in the manufacturing process; less new parts are required and less product has to go to landfill. Of course it is up to the ink and toner manufacturers to find ways of getting their customers to return the empty cartridges. This can be done by either providing the end user with some way to return the cartridge either by post or by courier (this raises another environmental concern with regard to the extra fuel required to complete this task). This also would add a cost to the manufacturer that they would feel they have to pass on to the consumer in some form. The other way is to have the end user return the toner and ink cartridges at their own cost in order to facilitate a donation to charity by the manufacturer. It is possible also for the ink toner manufacturers to strike up a deal with a courier company for a favourable rate for collecting large amounts of used ink and toner from a large institution such as a school or college. The empty ink toner cartridges can then be collected at no cost to the user, remain cost effective for the manufacturer and provide the transport company with the goodwill of being seen to help a charity and the environment.

Certainly this last option means there are many winners, most of all the environment.

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