Ausjet Inkjet & Laser Supplies Blog
Merry Christmas and Closing Dates
Ausjet Inkjet & Laser Supplies would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy and safe Christmas and hope that 2013 will prove to be your best year ever!
Thank you all for your support during 2012!
We are closing for a short break from close of business Friday 21st December and will be back on January 2nd 2013.
Statements were sent out earlier today & Sue (Accounts Dept.) would really appreciate your accounts being paid before the end of December., especially if you are closing and only coming back to work on the 7th January.
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?
Dr Seuss
The Ausjet Team
New Products 13th November 2012
Introducing the new range of high quality replacement chips for OEM inkjet cartridges at cost effective pricing.
Benefits
- No more overriding printers by pressing a combination of buttons that confuses your customer.
- No longer do you need to worry if the cartridge will work in the customers printer, MFC or Fax machine.
- Printer will detect the cartridge as been a new cartridge.
- Offer a solution that your competitors can't.
- 100% full ink levels are restored
- Ink levels are adjusted depending on the printing just like the OEM
- Ink low warning messages and ink out messages are displayed just like the OEM.
- Tested on Australian printer models.
Replacement Inkjet Chips
HP564XL Series
Black , Cyan , Magenta, Yellow, Photo Black
( With more and more problems related to the expiry date of the OEM chip. This is an affordable and essential solution!)HP920XL Series
Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
( Like the HP564XL OEM chip the HP920XL has the same expiry date problem. Replace the OEM chip with the Ausjet Replacement! )HP940XL Series
Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
(With Sensient Pigment inks and Ausjet HP940XL chips its a perfect solution!)
HP 88XL Series
Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
( Affordable solution for remanufacturing the HP88 and HP88XL ink tanks. )
Lexmark 100XL 'A' Series
Black, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow
( This is the only solution to remanufacture the Lexmark 100XL series cartridges. We have the 'A' chip which can also be reused with a printer override. )
Technical Bulletin 8th November 2012
Below is some thoughts and news from the CEFIX Conference and Tradeshow :
LED Laser Printers design
The advantage LED laser printers have over traditional laser printers is really the LPH (LED Print head). The LPH uses a self focussing lens and has no moving parts. The LPH rated reliability is 50,000 hours! This is one of the reasons Okidata offer a 3 year warranty as standard. They claim it's the best warranty available in the market place. It's been stated that with LPH technology higher resolutions and smaller dot sizes are possible .
A Mr Bobo Wang who works for Aetas technology has made it his life long goal to make the smallest highest quality printer. He believes he has achieved this and has further increased the technology and quality of the LPH. The other big advantage is that the cost of the LPH had been reduced to about $10 USD to manufacture.
Fuji-Xerox has also developed new advances with the technology and the word was that they will be licensing their technology to other manufacturers. Is seems the LED is the future replacement for laser printer because of lower manufacturing costs and an increase in quality and reliable. It is strange that the other big players have not signed up to LED which begs the question what do the OEM printer manufacturers have up their sleeves? What cards are they still yet to play? Time will tell.
Managed Print Services (MPS)
The buzz word is still 'managed print services' but at the conference they asked who had fully implemented this service. Their was only 5 hands out of about 200 attendees. The problem I have found over the years is that nobody is correctly explaining how it all works. It basically has come out of the copier industry and the most important word is 'service'. It incorporates a cost per page system but that is only half of what its all about. It's a system where you negotiate with the customer a cost per page based on the printers they have, this includes servicing the printer and providing the consumables.
Its a contract you agree with the customer and might include bringing in new printers or rearranging printers. It's not something you can get into overnight but the advantages can be tremendous for those that invest in it. It is typically aimed at multiple printer installations. From all accounts the OEM's are streets ahead in implementing this strategy. Those resellers that have customers will multiple installation should seriously consider how they are going to protect their business by beating the OEM's to the punch.
Worldwide General Printing Declining but is it our Silver Cloud
The reality is that general printing is declining as more and more previously printed magazines, books, advertising etc are now read in a digital format. But the good news is with the digital revolution more and more of the heavy industry is changing. As markets change it creates huge opportunities for those that are savvy and wish to look for the new markets. As we have mentioned on previous technical bulletins a lot of printing system which use to be analogue is changing to digital. New markets such as printing on different substrates, printing on consumer product etc are starting to boom. Every day we hear more and more new unique printing solutions coming to market.
One of the biggest markets is the barcoding and labelling industry. Sensient has a wide range of barcoding and coding inks available for these markets. We have access to these inks, if you have any enquires please contact us.
Smart Phones and Tablets
Recently I have seen an advertisement on television promoting the new iphone 5. The camera has the capability of capturing panoramic photos as you pan around the room. The advertisement then showed the panoramic print framed. This got me wondering, smart phone / tablet sales are really exploding and will this be a driving force for home printing again. It's obvious that printer manufacturers are making it easier to print direct from your smart phone / tablet to their latest printers.
Printing your emails direct from your phone, tablet, laptop computer to your printer with (Eprint) is another recent innovation that makes printing easy. You need an Eprint enabled printer which is a printer connected to the internet with a special dedicated email address. Send an email to the printers email address and it prints out automatically. You could be anywhere in the world and the pages would just print.
Every smart phone or tablet released has a in-built camera. The world has never had so many camera's in people's hands. But will the new advancements in technnology rejuvenate the home photo printing market? It's a question for those smarter than myself, but with anything if it's easy it's more likely people will use it.
OEMs Protecting Their Products
One of the OEM's at the conference gave a presentation on their approach to protecting their brand by removing counterfeit cartridges and patent-infringing products from the market place. They are also constantly investigating the misuse of their trademarks. It was a very interesting presentation in the sense that it's very important to see things from an OEM perspective.
They are well and truly active in purchasing cartridges from around the world to inspect for patent-infringing or counterfeit use. A common way they do this is to order products from a number of sources including online stores. With more and more industry news related to patent-infringing products and trademark issues it's important to be aware!
How to Become a Famous Chef Overnight
During our stay in Zhuhai we discovered a a nice western style restaurant area along the river. We heard rave reviews about an authentic Italian restaurant in the same area. Accompanied by another Australian we headed out to dinner for some authentic Italian pizza in 'China'.
After the dinner the owner of the business approached Dermot and asked him if he was this world famous Chef. Apparently they had seen him the day before and had been curious ever since. A double life or a coincidence I will let you decide!
Technical Bulletin 6th November 2012
Cefix Conference and Exhibition Zhuhai, China (Part 1)
During the days of the 23rd to the 27th of September Dermot Murtagh (the big cheese) and I attended the CEFIX conference, CEFIX Trade Show and afterwards took time to visit a number of manufacturing factories. We attended these events to
• Educate ourselves and network with other buyers and suppliers
• Research industry trends
• Find solutions for remanufacturing problems
• Learn about new cartridges which will hit the market soon.
• Discuss Important points with our manufacturers
• Visit factories to inspect quality procedures.
Our first call of port was the Conference on the 23rd which was a one day event featuring presentations from the following industry leaders:
Art Diamond (Diamond Research Corporation)
Dr Edul N. Dalal (Xerox Fellow, Xerox Corporation)
Andrew Gardner (Worldwide Brand Protection Manager, Lexmark)
Dr Xiaoying Rong (California Polytechynic State University)
Jan de Kesel (In-Map) Bobo Wang (Aetas Technology – new LED printer technology)
Kennard S Cloud (Pantum – Worldwide Product Manager)
Denny Henger (CCID Consulting – Deputy General Manager)
From the 24th to 26th September we attended the
CEFIX Trade Show
For the 6th year running Remax Asia Pacific's annual international trade show for the cartridge remanufacturing industry broke previous records. The Zhuhai event attracted almost 10,000 visitors from 85 countries around the globe. There were 425 exhibitors at the massive Zhuhai Airshow Centre which was located 2-2.5 hours away by shuttle bus depending on traffic which at times was horrific.
The general concensus from visitors and manufacturers was that it wasn't as good as previous years. I was surprised to hear there was nearly 10,000 attendees as it seemed less crowded than in previous years. A lot of the exhibitors also mentioned that it wasn't as busy as the previous year. Which made me think that next time I will have to look out for that one visitor that visited the show 3000 times! I have this image in my mind of a guy walking in and out of the show constantly for three days. Stranger things have happened in this world!
Zhuhai and other nearby cities are considered the worlwide epi-centre of the aftermarket consumables industry. You could spend a lot of time in this area visiting the hundreds of factories related to the printer consumables industry.
Manufacturers of these products were at the CEFIX
Cartridge remanufacturers
Chip and chip resetter manufacturers
Toner component manufacturers
Inkjet Ink manufacturers
Toner powder manufacturers
New and remanufactured aftermarket inkjet cartridges
New and remanufactured aftermarket toner cartridges
CISS Manufacturers
Dye Sublimation
Coated Paper Manufacturers
Packing products
Toner and Inkjet filling Machinery
Refillable Cartridge
Manufacturers Printer Manufacture
New Cartridges
Canon has released new individual inkjet ink cartridges in the USA. We expect them here shortly. The model numbers in the USA are
550 Bk (15mls) 551 C, M, Y, GY, BK (7ml per cartridge)
550XL Bk (22mls)
551XL C, M, Y, GY, BK (11ml per cartridge)
It also has a change in design with the chip it now uses a FCB (flexible circuit board) rather than a PCB (printed circuit board).
In previous technical bulletins we mentioned about the new Epson XP Inkjet Printers that had been released in Japan. They have been now released in Australia and the cartridge models are : 200 Bk, C, M, Y 200XL Bk, C, M, Y 273 Bk, C, M, Y, PBK 273XL Bk, C, M, Y, PBK
The entry level printer Expression Home XP-100 starts at RRP $69.00
I had a quick look at these new 200 and 273 cartridges in China. They have a unique outlet port which is a rubber membrane, ink is held within the cartridge but once the membrane is touched ink passes through it.
Chips and Chip Resetters
With chip technology and firmware updates becoming part and part of this industry. We are always on the look out for resetting solutions for OEM cartridges. When this solution isn't available we need to provide the most stable and firmware change resistant chips we can provide.
We are currently investigating new chip resetting solutions. Recently we have just released our Canon 3 in 1 chip resetter which resets compatible and OEM chips for the Generation 1,2 and 3 canon chips (5,8s,520,521s,525,526s).
We also have the stick on chips for PG37/40/50/510/512 and CL38/41/511/513 cartridges. The only solution for Australian New Zealand region for restoring the ink levels and improving remanufactured cartridge compatibility on these models.
We are currently investigating other unique solutions.
Booths
We spent three full days visiting the booths and discussing various new products. We always believe quality is our highest priority and we do go the extra mile and are always looking for ways to continually improve our products and find new innovative solutions. During November and December we hope to release many new products that are currently under lock and key.
A Miracle in Zhuhai
Zhuhai is a warm city at the best of times. But on one particular day at the CEFIX it seemed that the air-conditioning was on the blink. It was extremely unpleasant for all and even the locals were struggling and starting to wither! Towards the end of the day I was really starting to feel it, no amount of water seemed to quench the thirst.
At first I thought it was a mirage, between the many exhibitors I spotted something. Could it be true? It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. Maybe it was my dehydrated weary state but I thought I could see 'cold beer on tap'. But Yes! It was true a booth with cold beer on tap. We can tell you it went down well, the Belgium guy on the bar stool next to me seemed also to be enjoying it. By his demeanour I could see he had being settled for a while.
Look out for Part 2 of this Technical Bulletin on Thursday the 8th of November.
New Products 2nd November 2012
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New Retail Packaging for Inkjet Printable Balloons We now have available the inkjet printable balloons in hang sell printed packs. Print on these balloons using your own designs. Perfect for parties, weddings, anniversaries, valentines day etc Family Pack (3 pack) Party Pack (10 pack) |
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Why have an ordinary computer mouse? Be the envy of all your friends with this generation #2 sportscar computer mouse. |
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New Premium Colour Toner Range
New additions to our range of Premium Grade Colour Toner Sets
Are you aware that chinese manufacturers are now making 4 grades of toners? We only import premium grade which use high quality components from leading manufacturers. We are pleased to release a new range of colour toner cartridges that we believe further raises the quality bar for remanufactured and new compatible cartridges.
Please check out our prices. We know you will be pleasantly surprised
Below is a small snippet of the vast array of quality testing performed on components and the cartridges during the manufacturing process for our premium grade toner cartridges.
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New Premium Grade Cartridges available now
Brother
TN-155 Series
TN-340 Series (High yield version)
Dell
2130 Series
2150 Series
3110 Series
HP
CE250 Series
CE260 Series
9730 Series / EP86 Series
Kyocera
TK-544 Series
TK-554 Series
TK-584 Series
TK-594 Series
Oki
C110 Series
C710 Series
5600 Series
8600 Series
Samsung
CLT-508 Series
CLT-609 Series
CLP660 Series
Xerox
C1100 Series
2100 Series
6360 Series
CP305 Series
Technical Bulletin 18th September 2012
CEFIX Remax Trade Show
From this Sunday we will be attending the CEFIX Remax Asia trade expo located in Zhuhai China. The CEFIX Remax Asia is a three day trade show dedicated to the printer consumables market. We will also be attending a one day industry conference featuring presentations by industry gurus from all points in the world.
It's a great opportunity for us to see the latest and greatest products. Discuss industry topics with industry experts. Talk to many of our manufacturers about our products in detail and visit factories to check the quality procedure systems etc etc
We are always in discussion with our suppliers to further improve our products to you. However, we would also like to hear from you. Is there any additional product you would like us to supply? Do you have any specific query or any suggestion to improve any of our products? Is there a technical problem you can't find a solution to?
Let us know and we will do our best to find the relevant information.
Please let us have your requests before Friday this week.
New HP564XL Compatible Cartridges with Chip
Recently we have released the new series of HP564XL compatible cartridges. Unfortunately we didn't have time to get the Ausjet Boxes printed yet. So our current stock is only available in a generic box.
But the great thing about these cartridges is the ink volume and ink quality. 30mls for the black cartridge and 18mls per colour and photo black. This is well and truly above the OEM ink volumes. The large black cartridge is equipped with a high grade pigment and the colours and photo black use german dyes.
During out in house testing these cartridges performed to a very high quality and were 100% reliable. It's almost important to note that even though the black cartridge holds 30mls of ink it will fit in all printers. It's not the same dimensions as that wide black HP564XL cartridge that HP released a few years back and then discontinued.
Stick on Chips PRICE REDUCTION and Installation tips!
For those remanufacturing the Canon Inkjet Printhead type cartridges we have good news for you. We have negotiated better pricing for you which means a lower price for you.
With regards to the chip installation its extremely important to clean the cartridges contacts thoroughly before installation of the chip. The chip works by making contact with the pins, it's therefore very important that these contacts are clean. Chip recognition errors and peeling of the chip can result if the contacts are not thoroughly cleaned.
We had one customer who's problems just vanished after he started cleaning the contacts with a contact cleaner and a light scourer. Chips that weren't recognising before now just worked. We would recommend using Isopropyl alcohol as its a good general contact cleaner.
Samsung MLT-D101s Compatible Available!
Jet Black Print (Toner from Japan)
Tested on Australian printer models
Available now
Sku : 60-SAD101S
Toner yield: 1500 pages (same as OEM)
Printers : ML2160, ML2165W, SCX3405F, SCX3405FW
Epson 676XL compatible cartridges also now available. Click here for more details
New Products : Epson 676XL Compatibles
The Ausjet compatible Epson 676XL cartridges offers the same page yield as the OEM and are a quality printing alternative to the OEM at a much lower cost.
For use with
Epson Workforce Pro WP- 4530 and WP-4550
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Compatible 676XL (T6761) Black Sku: PE-676XLBK Ink Volume: 70ml |
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Compatible 676XL (T6762) Cyan Sku: PE-676XLC Ink Volume: 40ml |
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Compatible 676XL (T6763) Magenta Sku: PE-676XLM Ink Volume: 40ml |
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Compatible 676XL (T6764) Yellow Sku: PE-676XLY Ink Volume: 40ml |
Technical Bulletin 26th July 2012
HP Inkjet Printers 'Cartridge Protection'
Is the OEM trying to lock out large scale remanufacturers?
Recently it has come to our attention that HP has designed a new system to lock cartridges to a printer. Although this system only seems to be in its infancy it could cause a big problem for those incorporating swap and go systems or bulk remanufacturing operations. If you think about this logically it's a good way for the OEM to stop the collection of empties for batch filling or large scale remanufacturing.
The HP Officejet Pro 8600 cartridges uses the new 932 Black and 933 CMY individual cartridges. By default the 'cartridge protection' system is set to 'on'. When a new cartridge is installed in the printer it writes to the chip locking that cartridge to the printer. The 'cartridge protection' system can easily be turned off via the printer software. But why would the customer bother to do this? Even if the system is turned off it will not reverse a locked cartridge.
Unfortunately because its a default setting the vast majority of customers using these printers will have locked cartridges. From the customers point of view this wouldn't affect them in anyway way unless they had multiple printers that used the same cartridges.
The good news is that because the cartridge is locked to the printer it will not prevent you from remanufacturing the customers own cartridge.
HP Setup Cartridges
When you purchase a new printer that uses the HP564, 920 or 932 series cartridges. The cartridges that come in the box with the printer will be these new setup cartridges. These cartridges must be the first cartridges in the printer and are used as a way to setup accurate ink levels.
The following link provides more information of these cartridges.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02068088&cc=ad&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_auen_c-001_title_r0004
The real question that we need to ask is are these cartridges able to be remanufactured? Could they potentially be locked into a specific printer like the 'cartridge protection' system mentioned above.
So far we haven't received much feedback but it looks like they can be remanufactured without any problems.. touch wood.
One thing I do know is if you try to replace the setup cartridges before they are empty the printer will yell and scream at you. Once you put the setup cartridge back in its all happy again. So temperamental!!
If you do encounter any problems remanufacturing these starter cartridges please contact us. If a problem exists we would like to pass the word on as soon as we can!!
Sensient Inks for New Cartridges
Sensient has recommended the following inks for use with the following cartridge sets:
PG640 : C4103 or C4101
CL641 : C0166 cyan, C1067 Magenta, C1068 Yellow
HP932 : H5WL5
HP933 CMY : H940C, H940M, H940Y
HP950 : H5WL5
HP951 CMY : H940C, H940M, H940Y
Lexmark introduces new Inkjet Printers and Cartridges
Lexmark has released a new range of printers featuring Vizix Pro technology. The printers are designed as business units. The individual cartridge numbers are 220XL Bk,C,M and Y and feature all pigment inks. Pigment inks have excellent highlighter and smear resistant prints that business users demands. Page yields are 2500 for the black and 1600 per colour. Which puts it in line with other recent printer releases from other manufacturers.
OEM High Volume Inkjet Printers going after the top end of town
It seems business inkjet printers are certainly hotting up, with the main selling point a much lower costs per page than colour laser printers at similar pricing point.
New Epson Printer and Cartridges in Korea and Japan
Epson has released a wide range of new printers in Korea/Japan. The new cartridge models are T1801-T1804 and T1811-T18114. The new printer models are XP30,XP102,XP202,XP205,XP302,XP402 and XP405 printers.
It's a possibility that these new models will make it our way in the future.
Brother Reset Procedure
Thank you to one of our esteemed customers who provided the following information to us. Unfortunately we can't tell you his name. It's a bit like that toothbrush adverisement where they wouldn't show us his face. Maybe he's the stig of the cartridge remanufacturing game. He does drive a red car it's no ferrari but one thing is for sure the fuel economy would be better! But all jokes aside he certainly knows his stuff!
MFC 9440 and 9840 Toner Reset (TN-155 Cartridges)
1) With power on, open the toner access main door (You will get a "door open" message in the LCD.)
2) Press the "Clear/Back" button and you will go right to the "Toner Reset Menu".
3) Using the up and down "Search" arrow buttons, you can then scroll through reset options for each of the printers [4] toner cartridges!
Code: B = Black, C = Cyan, M = Magenta, Y = Yellow
4) For each for these cartridges is the option to reset for low yield = S (small?) or High Yield = H.
5) Press OK.
6) Using the numeric keypad, select option #1 ( to reset each to the size you have installed).
7) LCD will display "Accepted"
8) Hit the "Clear/Back" button to get out of the menu, close door and the problem is finally solved.
I hope this information has been useful to you.
Shane
Stocktake Friday 29th June
I'm sure you are all aware it's that time of the year! The time of the year that everybody looks forward to! That's right the wonderful amazing stocktake time!!
We are planning to get stuck into our stocktake this Friday and we are asking politely if all orders can be placed either before Friday or on the Monday after. If you get caught out and do need to place a order on the Friday leave us a message and we will get back to you.
New Products 28th June & Stocktake
The new chip brings improved printer compatibility and accurate ink levels for the first time to these remanufactured cartridges.
Ink Volume:
| HP920XL Black | 32ml (OEM 32ml) |
| HP920XL Cyan | 13ml (OEM 8ml) |
| HP920XL Magenta | 13ml (OEM 7.5ml) |
| HP920XL Yellow | 13ml (OEM 8ml) |
Remanufactured HP920XL Compatibility :
I'm sure you are all aware it's that time of the year! The time of the year that everybody looks forward to! That's right the wonderful amazing stocktake time!!
We are planning to get stuck into our stocktake this Friday and we are asking politely if all orders can be placed either before Friday or on the Monday after. If you get caught out and do need to place a order on the Friday leave us a message and we will get back to you.
