{"id":3002,"date":"2009-08-31T21:08:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2010-04-19T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T18:09:07","slug":"fixed-gray-haze-after-adding-ink-to-laser-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/fixed-gray-haze-after-adding-ink-to-laser-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed: Gray Haze After Adding Toner Laser Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/printing-gray.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3003\" title=\"printing gray\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/printing-gray-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"printing gray\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/printing-gray-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/printing-gray-145x200.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/printing-gray-743x1023.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: I haven&#8217;t fixed the problem. Read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A little while ago I bought an ink toner refill for my HP Laserjet color printer. Right after adding more black toner, every sheet had a gray haze. I googled around but found no solid solution, it <em>might<\/em> have been that the toner formulation was wrong for my printer but it wasn&#8217;t definite. I wrote to the folks who sold me the toner but they couldn&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that, apparently, <strong>I had overfilled the cartridge. After printing maybe 100 pages, pages stopped coming out gray. :-)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t overfill your laser printer cartridges like I did!<\/p>\n<p>I hope that some wayward toner refilling soul finds this message and their suffering is eased.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the toner from an eBay seller, &#8220;printdealsmontreal&#8221;. The 3 colors + black toner refill cost $70 or so while new cartridges would have cost more than $200. I&#8217;m now quite happy with their product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: I haven&#8217;t fixed the problem. Read on&#8230; A little while ago I bought an ink toner refill for my HP Laserjet color printer. Right after adding more black toner, every sheet had a gray haze. I googled around but found no solid solution, it might have been that the toner formulation was wrong for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3004,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}