Small company owners are well aware of the costs of copier and printer toner. But what you may not know is that compatible toner cartridges are cost effective and completely safe for use in printers and copiers. Not very long ago, a client told us what happened when he bought a large amount of compatible Oki c5150n supplies.

As a project manager for a mid-sized regional restaurant equipment business, one of Mike McNamara’s duties is to stock up on toner cartridges. After his complete research on price and quality, Mike chose an online distributor who sold a compatible Oki toner cartridge for 1/3 to half the price of the Okidata brand name toner. The result was an impressive sixteen percent saved on his entire budget for the month.

He requested that a few of his workers install compatible cartridges in all of his two hundred Okidata c5150n printers. He started out unsure but quickly realized that the toner in the compatible cartridges was exactly the same as the expensive original toner cartridges he had been buying. “I looked at several copies personally,” Mike noted, “and they appeared great - good ink yield, no smudging, and adequate coverage.”

The compatible Oki c5150n toner cartridges are produced by companies using equal or even better technology and toner. These producers use quality control tests that are just as rigorous as those run by name-brand toner manufacturers. The result of all this time is that your compatible cartridge will have high quality at a much lower price.

This is not the end of Mike’s story, in fact, three months later, he was given the award of manager of the month, mostly due to his money saving ideas. Also, Mike’s superiors asked him to be in charge of all toner orders for the rest of the company, saving it tens of thousands of dollars per year simply by converting to the compatible Okidata c5150n toner!

All of us who need to discover the little solutions to increase profits and prevent unnecessary costs should learn from the example in Mike’s letter. Communicate with your office supplier to compare for yourself the price in using manufacturer’s cartridges versus Oki printer toner and see how even a minor purchasing change can make a significant difference in your bottom line.

New toner cartridges for copiers and printers can be outrageously expensive, but did you know that there’s an easy way to cut this expense significantly? One of our clients saved a lot of cash for his business by switching to remanufactured Okidata toner. These cartridges performed just as well as the cartridges in his company used, the Oki 5150 toner cartridges, but at a fraction of the cost. Our client was awareded with a large career boost for his cost-cutting discovery. It might benefit you to look into switching to remanufactured cartridges the next time you need to replace your toner.

- Ben Pate