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No, and as a matter of fact dont go with the generic, go OEM. I bet it ends up being cheaper per copy, the copy quality will be better and depending on how crappy the generic toner is, it may screw up your printer. I have have been servicing copiers, printers, etc for going on 18 years now. I have seen generic shit screw up machines time and time again.
Yep, it's not an urban legend. I've had generic toner destroy my printers on atleast two occasions at work and had to spend 80% the original cost of the printers to replace the guts inside. It's not worth it.
It's ~$150 laser printer. It's basically disposable. Buy generic toner or a refill kit and run it until the stuff kills it. Spend another $150 in a year or two and buy another printer that has even more features as technology trickles down.
I have a HP1006 I got on sale for $90. OEM toner is $60, generic toner
is $22. I still get 1500 pages per generic cartridge it's just that when
the generic toner gets low it has a tendency to burn. What does that
mean? It means I throw the $22 cartridge away at the first sign of
lower toner instead of trying to squeeze every last page out of it.
Printer manufacturers know toner/ink is expensive so that's why they sell the printers at basically no profit. All the money is made off of the consumables. Printer ink/toner has the most mark up on it of damn near any other product on the market. Shit. You thought an AR-15 dust cover with JB Weld on it for $30 was expensive, it would cost you $400,000 to fill your car's gas tank with printer ink.