What is Toner?

You may be wondering what the heck is toner?  Toner is a fine powder-like substance in which the powder can be thought of as a form of ground down plastic.

No, I'm not talking about the toner you put on your face.  Laser toner is actually a key component that is used in printing. Toner powder is fused onto paper during the print procedure in order to create text and images.


I say a plastic-like compound because there are countless varieties of toner and therefore no easy way to explain what it's made of.  Cartridge manufacturers create and employ a variety of toner compounds during the manufacturing process of their laser toner cartridges. Toner is known to generally carbon, various types of polymers, waxes and resins.  They generally have different granules, melting points and are usually available in many cartridges that help form the base colours for printing. (black, cyan, magenta and yellow)

Putting it all  together.  Your home or office printer and photocopiers contains a print cartridge.  It is inside this print cartridge that resides the toner powder.  Once you call on your printer to print a document, the cartridge deposits toner powder onto the paper in specific sequences.  This toner powder is then fused (melted in essence) to the paper and you comes your nice document.

Island Ink-Jet offers toner cartridges that are manufactured and quality tested to be oh the highest quality and similar to OEM cartridged. In-store tests have shown that in most cases, consumers cannot tell the difference between a printout using an Island Ink-Jet cartridge vs an OEM.


Toner cartridges will generally continue to work until all the toner within the cartridge has been spent.  Once that happens, the toner cartridges are then empty and will need to be refilled, remanufactured or recycled.
Island Ink-Jet is a leading company that offers remanufactured toner and compatible toner cartridges instead of refilled toner cartridges.

Remanufactured Laser Toner Cartridges

Island Ink-Jet is a company that retails a selection of remanufactured laser toner cartridges that work with the vast majority of OEM printer cartridge manufacturers. Remanufactured toner cartridges offer many benefits over buying brand name OEM cartridges since they are environmentally friendly and save consumers up to 30% when compared with the cost of buying new.

High quality remanufactured toner cartridges come with a satisfaction guarantee and will perform as well as new in most cases. In top quality cartridges, parts are interchanged allowing a remanufactured toner cartridge to hold more toner and have a longer lifespan when compared to the original cartridge. This is measured in page yield.

Remanufacturing toner cartridges is much more in depth process when compared against simple refilled toner. Instead, remanufactured toner cartridges are dismanteled, washed and inspected. Parts that wear such as the drum, wiper blade and rollers which undergo thousands of revolutions during normal use will wear down over time. Worn parts are replaced, the toner is filled to capacity and the cartridges are then put back together.

Why do some companies offer such low toner prices online? Buyer beware of course. The quality and price of any aftermarket toner cartridge is a direct result of the quality of the refilling/remanufacturing process used. When a company simply drills and fills without reviewing or replacing the other parts that typically wear that cartridge required less work and can be sold for less. Buyer beware indeed! Prices for refilled cartridges are often appealing until one factors in that there is a 40% chance that a refilled toner cartridge will fail prematurely.

The same holds true for remanufactured toner cartridges since not all companies replace all parts unconditionally.  Companies that replace parts unconditionally will typically be of higher quality and will also have a longer lifespan especially when combined with a top notch quality testing. In general, the cheaper the toner the lower the quality and the higher the likelihood it will fail prematurely.

Island Ink-Jet provides high quality remanufactured toner cartridges at competitive prices. The cartridges are remanufactured in an ISS 9001 facility and all worn parts are removed and replaced. Toner used in their cartridges are as similar to OEM specifications as possible resulting in a top notch product. Just as importantly, you can simply visit any of their stores and pick up a cartridge right off the shelf without having to wait.

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You reduce your printing costs by using refilled cartridges or by purchasing printers that use cartridges that are easier to refill.  Island Ink-Jet is a company that can save you money on ink and toner cartridges by providing ink cartridge refills as well as OEM, compatible, and remanufactured ink and toner cartridges.