Small business owners are aware of how much the price copier and printer toner can take from your profits. What many individuals don’t know is that there are toner cartridges available that, while not being a name brand, are both safe and reliable for use in their printers, and also cost much less. For example, let me tell you the story of what happened when one of our clients bought a big supply of remanufactured Oki 7550n compatible toner.

Andy McNamara is a project manager. He is employed at a regional restaurant supply company that is reasonably sized. After some extensive searching, Andy learned that Oki toner was available at a much cheaper price than the ink he was purchasing. The toner that he required, the Oki c7550 toner, was available on the internet. By deciding on the less expensive toner, he was able to save the company a lot of money.

He asked that the compatible cartridges be installed in the company’s 200 Oki c7550. He was skeptical of his decision until he discovered that the compatible Oki c7550n ink had the same quality as the name-brand ink he had been purchasing at a much higher price. Andy wrote that “I checked out some of the copies personally and they looked good.”

It turns out that compatible Oki 7550 toner cartridges are made by distributors that use the exact same if not superior inks and electronic components. These companies also have the exact same rigorous quality assurance testing on their cartridges, which means that you will receive a high-quality, one hundred percent compatible product at a fraction of the price.

Andy’s amazing story doesn’t end there. Only three months after that Andy was named the company’s manager of the month, in part because of his effective economic approach in purchasing the Oki c7550 toner. Andy’s boss also decided that it would be economic to have Andy oversee toner orders for the entire company which resulted in the company saving tens of thousands of dollars every year.

For those of us searching for ways to lower expenses, add to profits, and improve our businesses’ bottom lines, Andy’s letter should give us inspiration. Go see if your office supplier distributes compatible Oki printer toners and check the price yourself to see how much of a savings you can experience with one simple alteration.

If you’re a small business owner, you are aware of how much copier and printer toner can cost you. One of our clients, a project manager for a moderately sized regional restaurant equipment company, found that at an online distributor Oki toner was being sold at about a third to 1/2 as inexpensive as the name brand ink he had previously been purchasing. He asked a couple of his employees to install the remanufactured cartridges in his fleet of two hundred, Okidata c7550n machines. At first, Bill was skeptical, but he soon realized that the remanufactured inks were the same as the high-cost name brand inks he had previously bought.

- Ben Pate