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G & G is low profile to the public, especially printer cartridge users, but it is part of one of the largest conglomerates in the world

So how can G & G make you money?

Simply, they make the best compatible printer cartridges in the world for quality of product. And they sell them to you at prices that make genuine cartridges so exorbitant that you are wasting money buying them.

Who are G & G? They are part of the Ninestar Corporation, which in turn is owned by the Apex Technology Co Ltd.This organisation in fact also owns Lexmark, one of the most recognized Printer brand names in the world. 

Ninestar claims to be the world's largest compatibles producer, & guarantees their products, meaning in this case the G & G printer cartridges, including remanufactured cartridges, to function perfectly. They advise " All the products are manufactured under the rigorous implementation of ISO 9001 global quality system and ISO 14001 global environment system. Ninestar products enjoy a solid reputation among our resellers and customers for their highest quality and value".

At ABC Print Supplies, we endorse the reliability of the G & G printer cartridges, having supplied them since 2010 to our many customers.

So if you want to save money, then go no further for your compatibles than with us.

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Today's printers, either inkjet or toner, offer you many features. Attributes such as wi-fi connection, high res photos, multi-function, scanning, etc are all relevant to your requirements.

However, there are more fundamental considerations you need to investigate prior to your making a decision.

Firstly, if you are wanting to buy a budget printer, then look at the cost of the printer cartridges, be they genuine or generic. Printer cartridge brands often sell printers at below cost price to attract the buyer, whereas the real profit for the manufacturer is in the repeated ordering of printer cartridges.

Investigate the cost of genuine cartridges, and weather you can obtain compatible or remanufactured printer cartridges for that particular printer. Also look carefully at the yield of any printer cartridge. One that seems expensive, might not be so if it has a high yield.

Secondly, determine whether you really need the different features such as colour printing, or photocopying etc. Often, they are nice to have, but for you really not needed.

Thirdly, determine what the real purpose of you printer is. If you are a home user, And want to print photos and have the children do drawings or download internet pictures, then colour inkjet is most likely your thing. But if you need a printer for officework such as statements, invoices emails etc, then a monochrome (black only) with a toner cartridge is probably your preference.

Keep in mind though, that choosing a printer can be as personal as buying a pair of shoes - each individual has their own particular requirements. A bush walker needs heavy duty water resistant ankle high boots. An investment adviser needs a smart set of dress shoes, etc. And for you, the important issue is  to determine what those requirements are as applicable to printing needs. Good luck

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There are approximately 24 major brands of printer cartridge you can buy, so which one is the most popular?

At ABC Printsupplies, we have been selling genuine, remanufactured, and compatible ink & toner cartridges since 2010. During this 7 year period, we have maintained complete records of our sales.

We have sponsored all brands equally, and with the use of Google Analytics, we have a comprehensive record of what brands consumers in Australia prefer.

Five brands stand out from the pack. These brands are Brother, Canon, Epson, HP, and Fuji Xerox. This is no reflection on the quality or pricing of other brands, whose brand names might lack the marketing strength of the forenamed suppliers.

Below are the 5 most popular brands, along with their percentage of sales when compared with each other:

Fuji Xerox        6.96%

Epson           17.22%

Canon          19.61%

Brother         22.56%

HP               33.7%

From the above, it can be seen that HP enjoy approximately just over one third of the complete sales, remembering that these figures also include compatible and remanufactured printer cartridges, both toner & ink, as well as drum kits.

In recent times HP have increased their pricing on a number of occasions - so it remains to be seen how this will effect their portion of the market place when it comes time for their users to replace their printers

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Many printer users are still anxious about using compatible cartridges, and for that reason they have to pay substantially more for genuine cartridges. If you pay a lot more then it is better..yes...no, read on.

We promote and sell both genuine and compatible printer cartridges. But we believe it is important in providing support to our users, that we pass on to you, information we come across, to assist in your  decision making. 

The following information is provided by a major compatible printer cartridge wholesaler:

Will compatible ink and toner cartridges work just as well as genuine?

Compatible ink & toner manufacturers have developed their own solutions that work just as well as the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) products...if not better.

They have had the opportunity to reverse engineer the OEM product and develop outstanding print & toner solutions to ensure the quality of the finished printed page is of the same high quality that you are familiar with. The print quality is guaranteed to be the same as the OEM printer cartridges. 

Don't be bullied by OEM print machine manufacturers.

          Because if you do, you'll lose the opportunity to make significant savings.                         At times, dealers technicians advise that a printer is not covered by warranty                   because the customer is not using genuine cartridges. By saying this he is                       not complying with Australian law, which states that a non-genuine made for any             machine and used will not void the warranty unless the OEM (the dealer) can                   prove it is the toner that has caused the damage to the printer. This needs to be in          writing. 

Australian consumers are entitled to a number of statutory guarantees pursuant to Schedule 2, Chapter 3, Part 3-2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (“Act”). If a part is “not genuine”, but is interchangeable with a “genuine part”, then the non-genuine part would still be seen as being fit for the appropriate purpose and would therefore not void any manufacturers’ guarantee/warranty.

 Our advice to the user is this. Try a set of remanufactured or compatible cartridges the next time you order. If you find they are not to your satisfaction because of inferior quality, send us a photo of the resultant print, and we will refund you your payment. That is our confidence in non genuine cartridges.

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A new compatible range of printer cartridges have been released to the market.

                                    BROTHER MFC J5320DW PRINTER

They are the Brother LC 233 black, cyan, magenta, and yellow ink cartridges, with a yield of approx. 550 pages, for each colour.

If you are a heavy user, you might be more interested in the High Yield, or as in the case of the black, the extra High Yield. In this range, the colours have a yield of 1,200 pages each, and the black has a yield of 2,400 pages.

The high yield ink cartridges do provide much more 'bang for your buck', although the standard size presents good savings when compared to genuine prices.

The Brother printers that use these ink cartridges are the DCP J4120DW, MFC J4620DW, MFC J5320DW, & MFC J5720DW for the standard and high yield sizes, but that the Extra high yield black cartridge is only available for the MFC J5320DW &     MFC J5720DW printers.

So if you are considering purchasing a new ink printer, and you are favourable towards the Brother brand, then this might be the way to go.

Highlighted is a review of the Brother MFC J4620DW printer..

To find the prices of the compatible cartridges, go to Brother LC233 ink cartridges.

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Words such as 'toner', "laser', 'remanufactured', 'compatible', 'yield' etc, can be confusing for many computer printer users (cont..)

When searching for a printer cartridge, you should always search by the model number for the printer, unless you know for certain what printer cartridge model it is that you require. For instance, the Epson Expression Photo XP850 printer model has 6 different colours of dye cartridge with a standard yield C13T277192 to C13T277692. Then there are also a further six cartridges that have high yield C13T278192 to C13T278692. So there are 12 possible cartridges for this printer. The best way to see all of these options is to search for 'XP850'. This should throw up all 12 options, plus bundles if applcable.

By searching by the printer model, you also eliminate  transposition errors that can occur by incorrectly entering a digit in a cartridge model number For instance, Brother brand has the TN2150, the TN2250, and the TN2350 printer cartidges. An incorrectly entered digit as indicated by the bold digits above would result in sa getting a cartridge for the Brother MFC2703DW printer instead of the Brother HL2142.

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Words such as 'toner', "laser', 'remanufactured', 'compatible', 'yield' etc, can be confusing for many computer printer users.

So following we unravel some of the mystery of the printer cartridge world.

You recently buy a printer, and need to replace your cartridge, after what seems a short period of usage. This is because the printer manufacturer usually only provides that cartridge which was supplied with the printer at 40% capacity. As it comes with the printer, who's complaining.

So its time to buy your first printer cartridge, and this can be a confusing ordeal, as you get all these variants thrown up at you. For instance you have brought an HP LaserJet Pro P1102 printer, what cartridge should you get?

You enter the above printer model along with the word 'cartridge' on an internet search page and all these confusing options become available to you: HP #85, CE285A, genuine, compatible, remanufactured, toner cartridge, laser cartridge, etc. What to do?

In the above example, #85 is simply an abbreviation that HP uses, starting at #1, and rising to #971. For any individual #, there can be a number of different printers that use that cartidge.

The OEM, or Original Equipment Manufacturer code for this cartridge is 'CE285A', which is the definitive model number for the cartridge. In some cases, where the brand supplier sells a high yield cartridge as well as the standard, then the coding could be say Q5649A (#49A) for the former, and Q4649X (#49X) for the latter.

In each example above (CE285A & Q5649A/X), the printer cartridges are referred to as 'Mono Laser' cartridges. This is the same as saying black toner cartridges. Mono means 'one' or 'single', as in no colour. And laser is the electronic filtering that enables the toner powder to form into pixels, be it text or image.

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What type of toner printer is the best option for your business needs, whereby cost is an important factor, but quality is a high priority?

You are the IT manager of a large business, or the bookkeeper in a smaller business, or a mum & dad business that is quickly growing, and you have to make a decision on what is the best toner printer(s) for your business.

When setting out your requirements, it is not only the printer you should be considering, but the printer cartridges they use as well.

In the first instance, you need to ask yourself the following questions:

• What quantity of printing do I require to be done, now & into the perceivable future
• Are my printing requirements in mono only or do I require colour as well and in what ratio to black
• Do I require the printer to do multi functional requirements, such as copying, facsimilies (rapidly becoming scarcer), etc
• Do I require high quality  colour graphics.

By asking yourself these questions you will be arriving at a choice of what type of printer you want.

But there is another qualifying requirement you should undertake - what printer cartridges should I be using?

Yes. we all know in this situation we are talking toners, which are generally but not always best suited for businesses's heavier needs, but there are toners that are mono toners, and coloured toners. And then there is the yield capacity of the toner, whether genuine, remanufactured, or compatible.

Normally, the more printing you require, then the larger yield toners. And yes, they are normally more costly in that toner powder is the most expensive element in the whole setup. But another advantage of the higher yield toners is that they directly relate to faster printers, which in themselves can save you time & money.

So, in summary, determine your printing requirement, and then determine your cartridge yield. And then check out the supplier's printers, but before you buy, go away and look at the reviews.

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Printing is becoming less of a requirement in business and in homes.

Recently, I booked  tickets to an event through  ticketek, on the computer, and was wondering if the printer had enough ink because how bad would it be if I went to print the tickets at the last moment, to discover the printer was refusing to cough up (I know, I should always have spares, but hey..).

Anyhow imagine my surprise when I found that the booking along with barcode is downloaded straight to my mobile phone, and then when I get to the advent, at the turn-style (they still exist), I put my mobile lcd up against the sensor, and, hey presto, I'm in!

This is just another example of where the cloud is taking over the necessity of having to use expensive print ink or toner.

For the time being, the lack of need of printing for storage records due to the cloud has been offset by the increase in the number of people been able to avail themselves of computers/printers as a result of lower prices, and increased user ability. But eventually that will reach saturation point, if not already so.

The following Google trend graph indicates  the fall in interest in printers via google searches since 2004.

The numbers on the graph reflect how many searches have been done for a particular term, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time

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Based on the analogy that the most ordered cartridges are such because they are the best, we examine what have been the most sought after Canon Ink & Toner cartridges from over the last few years from ABC Print Supplies.

In our previous blogs, we have determined that for Brother the most popular ink cartridges are the LC67 range along with the Brother TN240 toner cartridges, and the Brother TN2150X compatible with a massive 4,500 page yield.

Also we looked at the HP printer cartridges, with the CE278A proving the most popular. It is a mono laser cartridge which has a high acceptance from businesses.

For ink cartridges, Canon is far more successful than for its toners, according to our research. The most popular ink cartridges from Canon include the following:

Canon Compatible PGI5/CLI8 B,C,M,Y Bundle (5 carts)

Canon CLI-8M Genuine Magenta Ink Tank

Canon PGI520 / CLI521 B,C,M,Y Bundle Pack Compatible

The most popular  popular toner cartridge for Canon is the Canon FX9 Fax Toner Compatible 

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We have advised from our sales activity over a number of years what are the most popular Brother printer cartridges used. We now look at HP.

From 2010, we have access to Google's analytical records of the type and quantity of cartridges we have sold. From this, we can see what are the most popular HP toner cartridges that our customers prefer.

Today we are looking at both mono (no colour) and colour toner cartridges, and advising of the printers that they use.

The HP CE278A, otherwise known as the HP 78A is the most popular mono toner printer cartridge used by our customers. It has a yield of 2,100 pages and is used by the following printers:

LASERJET PRO M1536, LASERJET PRO P1566, LASERJET PRO P1606, LASERJET PRO M1530. of this range of printers, the LASERJET PRO P1606 is the most popular.

The CE278A is followed closely by the CE285A mono toner cartridge with a 1,600 page yield. With compatible prices at around $29 plus delivery, this is a cartridge that provides big dollar value.

The CE285A cartridge is used by  the LASERJET PRO P1102W printer with a RRP of AUD$149.00.

For HP coloured toner printer cartridges, the CB540B, CB541C, CB542Y, and CB543M, and the HP540 Bundle are the most popularly used, again as a reflection of a low price for yield of 2,200 pages for the black, and 1,400 pages for the coloureds.

The HP 540 coloured toner cartridges are used by the following HP printers:

COLOUR LASERJET CP1215, COLOUR LASERJET CP1515, COLOUR LASERJET CP1518NI, COLOUR LASERJET CM1312, COLOUR LASERJET CP1210, COLOUR LASERJET CP1510

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ABC Print Supplies have been selling thousands of printer cartridges since the company began business in 2010, and have good insight into what are the most popular printer cartridges that people use.

So let's start with Brother for two reasons: they are the first major brand name in the alphabet, but more so in that they are a very popular brand. We will do similar blogs for the other major printer cartridge brands including Canon, HP, and Xerox in the near future.

For our sources we are relying on Google Analytics, which registers all our internet sales since 2010. Internet sales account for 90% plus of ABC  Print Supplies' business, so this should be a reliable indicator. 

One proviso though is that new printers come into the market which enjoy strong demand, such as the Brother TN1070 low cost mono (no colour) 1,000 page yield laser cartridge, used with Brother HL1110, DPC1510,and MFC1810 printers, and will not be truly represented over the four year period for this analysis.

The most popular cartridges for Brother from our perspective are as follows:

 The TN2150 mono cartridge (no colour) is very popular for small business or home users who do not require colours. To these users, the advantage of the TN2150 cartridge is that you obtain a high level of print yield.

The standard genuine toner cartridge provides 2,600 pages and a compatible high yield provides 4,500 pages, as per ISO standards.

A printer such as the MFC7460DN can be purchased for approx $200.00, and although there are ink printers that sell for around $80, if you have reasonably regular print requirements, it will not take you too long to acheive a saving on your investment through the higher yield the TN2150 provides.

Likewise with the TN2250 for mono toner print cartridges, which however is marginally more expensive for the same yield.

The Brother TN240 black, cyan, magenta, and yellow bundle of toner printer cartridges is the most purchased Brother coloured toners

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Using the internet for the first time to buy your printer cartridge(s), and not too sure how to go about it? Then the following information will assist you.

It doesn't matter whether you're buying  genuine brand, remanufactured genuine, or compatible ink or toner cartridges, there are different ways of accessing your sought after product on the internet.  In the first instance you need to be able to access the internet, using such Internet managers as Internet Explorer, which if you have Microsoft Windows installed on your computer (over 98% of users do), you can then utilise it, or otherwise download Chrome (from Google) or Mozella.

The most popular way with any of the above  is to use a search engine dialogue box, the best known being Bing,Google, Netscape, or Yahoo. Using this search page, you enter what you think is the best way to finding your ink or toner cartridge. Their query can be anything from " cheapest HP toner cartridges" to "HP CE278A toner cartridge", or just "CE278A". Here I have used these three particular examples, because they can all lead to the same web pages in internet searches. The first entry is a more round about way, and will require you to do a further search(s) to get to where you eventually want to be.

You will then be offered numerous pages  from the competing suppliers for that item - from individual suppliers, such as ABC Print Supplies, to E-commerce merchants like My Shopping, or Get Price, or Shop Mania, who in turn rely on data product feeds from the retailers to provide their stock. Pricing is readily available for shoppers to compare, and they can then go to the selected products web site to have a closer look at what that supplier is offering, including delivery times, courier charges, support, references etc.

Beside the individual suppliers and the E-commerce merchants, you will also find the products advertised in eBay and Amazon. But be wary of the pitfalls there. Not from the server provider themselves, but from the supplier who offers no support, refunding, nor quality guarantee. The quality of the ink or toner is very important and they in themselves are not cheap. So a very cheap product advertised on eBay will in all likelyhood have a poor looking page print.

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