Hacker News Reader

My HP LaserJet has been telling me that it is low for the better part of 10 years. Still prints fine.

It's hard to really judge what this means without knowing how often and much you print, as well as how much was printed before the warning was given.

PS

Blame/thank Canon. It's their mechanism and cartridge in the HP printers. Also some utilize Samsung print engines for A3 paper.

PPS

It's a testament to ink vs toner that it can remain functional after 10 years.

We have about five HP 4200 printers in our office and I use genuine 38X toners which I think are rated at 12,000 pages.

When we get a Toner Low message it'll then do about 500 pages before it reports Toner Out, after that print will rapidly fade. We can probably scrape 1-200 pages on Toner Out, but it's not good enough quality to send out.

Basically their Low and Out warnings seem pretty accurate in my experience.

Same here, I'll only change it once I start seeing streaks, it must be a scam it has been like this for years.