What color laser printer can cheaply be refilled with non-OEM toner?

Q: What color laser printer can cheaply be refilled with non-OEM toner?


    For years, I bought the Costco HP inkjets which required ink priced at
about 100 times what ink 'should' cost. I even tried the Costco $20 ink
refills, but of course, HP makes refills almost impossible, on purpose,
so I simply vowed to never buy another HP ink-based printer.

    I bought an HP B&W laser printer, and have happily and successfully been
buying $5 guaranteed-used-once C92 cartridges and refilling the C4092A
black toner over the years at home, for about $5 for 250 grams of toner as shown below (after melting a circular hole in the toner cartridge):


    I never again wish to go through the expensive ink-refill sheer hell of
the typical HP inkjet ... so the 'only' color printer for me is one which
I can easily and inexpensively refill, at home, from non-OEM sources.

    Hence my question:

Q: Do you know of a color laser printer that can be as easily refilled from non-OEM sources like the B&W laserjets can?

   although I never refill. I Buy non-original ink cart. on eby. Have not had any trouble printing text or photo. Ink jet is HP 3200m.

   The HP cartridges I had were actually tanks with sponges in them.
   So, you had to not overfill them, or they leaked.
   But you had to fill them before they went too dry or they leaked.
   Plus you had to drill the hole in the right spot or they leaked.
   Even so, you had to deal with the time stamps that they burned into the ink tank at the factory. There was no way around that.

   You 'could' get past the time stamps they put in the printer memory for the cartridge. I tried the CMOS battery trick and shorting a pin on the motherboard ... but what worked best was to have THREE cartridges because the printer would only remember the unique id of the last two!

   But all that effort simply turned me off because HP made it difficult on purpose to refill the ink in the ink tanks.

   Note: Technically, these weren't cartridges because the ink jets were separate from the ink tanks in my HP all in one printer.

   have to say, refilling the HP 3200m laser printer is as KISS as it gets!

  1. You buy the soldering iron hole-melting tool (optional).
  2. You buy toner at the same time (about $5 for 250 grams).
  3. You melt the hole & pour in the toner.
  4. You put scotch tape over the hole!

  Total costs for, say, five years toner is something like:

  a) Original HP C4092A (92A) cartridge (about $40)

  b) Refills about every six months (about $5 each)

  c) Empty used-once cartridge every 2.5 years (about $5 each)

  Because of the ease of refilling, I LOVE my HP 3200m laser printer!

  Of course, if I go 'color', I'm assuming the refilling of the color laser printer will be as simple as the B&W is currently.

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