Do You Know the Toner Cartridge Chip?

Toner cartridge chip is a device of printer, which can connect to printer through direct contact or radio frequency mode. They are generally stored in a small circuit board with a storage unit to store information. Sometimes a processor is configured to response to requests made by printer.

The main function of toner cartridge chip:

1. Storage toner concrete details (easy for printers to identify the toner cartridge which in used).

2. Show the amount of toner cartridge;

3. Manage the carbon powder information according to the printer;

4. Printer statistics are printed and stored in the chip 5. Feedback when the printer is needed.

To sum up, chip store the toner cartridge type, amounts and area information and returns them according to the printer’s request. In the actual operation, the printing opportunity will send printing amount, coverage and carbon residue and other information to the chip. The chip stores the information and feeds it back to the printer when needed. Despite chip has all these functions, there are also various shortcomings.

1. Toner cartridge chip can’t stop printer working when it reaches a certain printing amounts. Chip itself doesn’t have the ability to calculate the internal information of toner cartridges. Printers determine whether it stops printing or not by various messages stored in printer. But these messages can’t be calculate by toner cartridge chip.

2. Chip itself can’t control laser printer toner printing amounts. Though toner cartridge presets the initial printing amount of information, only the printer can count the printing amount, including printing coverage, insufficient carbon powder, carbon consumption and other information. Once the message about printer toner is insufficient or toner ends up written in chip, these messages will be permanently recorded and cannot be reversed.

For example, when magnetic Roller of cf217a toner cartridge connection is not good, the information of insufficient toner can be incorrectly displayed. Then this information will be written in chip, now even if you adjust the connection, the cf217a toner will continuous to appear the information that toner is insufficient, which it can work normally only when changing toner cartridges chips or clean up all chip contents.

3. Chip unable to control the consumption of carbon powder

The printer determines the amount of toner by counting the printed pixels, and then by using a formula to determine the amount of toner needed in the unit pixel, finally these data will be written in chip. The toner chip has always been a passive device for storing the information transmitted by the printer, rather than having specific control over the specific conditions of the printer.

Because the information inside the toner cartridge chip is not reversible, it is necessary to replace the toner chip whether it is due to the machine inner factors or the toner itself. When printer shows the insufficient carbon powder message, it means that the lifespan of the chip is over.

Many people don’t understand this toner chip device, but for the entire printer industry, the printed toner cartridge chip seems to be a drag, but in fact it has special use. When a customers have a call and said his toner cartridge perform unsatisfactory, vendors can by the data in the toner cartridges to get to know the printer what exactly is the matter, thus they can better able to communicate and solve problems for their customers.