Printing Tips & Advice

          Hi Everybody, Just to let you know, A B Cartridges Ltd in Lincoln is trading normally and open for business. That’s as normally as we can in the current times. We are doing our best to carry on and do what we can. So if...

We regularly post with regards to printer/cartridge issues and advice on which printer to buy. But I thought it would be worthwhile to put a post about what we actually do as a business since 1999.We supply printer cartridges, drum units, ribbons, fax films & copier toners nationwide to customers...

It’s frustrating when you want to print something, you press the button, the printer goes into action, and the paper comes out of the printer with feint or non-existent print on it. You check your ink or toner levels and they say you have ink or toner. I had a...

A customer told me the other day he knew his ink cartridges were empty because he had shaken them and could not hear the ink sloshing around inside. Even though his printer told him there was ink in the cartridges (I will go into this in another post). The reason...

When fitting a lot of toner cartridges (not Brother or Oki), you have to remove a ribbon that allows the toner in the cartridge to be used. When toner cartridges are built the toner hopper part, where the toner is stored, is sealed by a ribbon to allow manufacture. On...

A customer came in for a toner cartridge the other day, which I sold him. I was then asked where’s the other bit? On enquiring about which other bit, I was told the drum the toner goes in. On some Laser printers, Brother ones for instance the toner cartridge and...