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A toner cartridge is a specially designed container made to fit inside a laser printer for the purposes of distributing the toner onto a page of paper. The toner cartridge may have a drum cartridge combined in the cartridge or it may be just a container for the toner.
A cartridge filled with ink used as a reservoir for the transport of ink to an inkjet printers printhead. Some ink cartridges have a print head as part of the cartridge, where others are simply a container.
A cylinder that electrostatically charged to attract toner particles. The toner forms an image on the drum and then in turn is transferred onto the printing material (usually paper). The paper is then fed into the fuser (heating) unit where it seals the toner into the paper.
A heating unit that melts and presses toner powder to paper, where it becomes part of the paper fibre.
A belt that when electromagnetically charged transfers toner powder to paper in preparation for sealing by the fuser unit.
Microscopic spray jets used to distrubute ink onto printing material on an inkjet printer.
An expected number of pages (based on coverage) that will be produced by a ink or toner cartridge. Usually based on a ISO standard or 5% coverage. All cartridge yields are quoted relating to coverage or through the specific manufacturer testing methodology. Actual yields will vary based on the coverage of printed pages and amount of ink or toner on each page. Page yields are difficult to determine as coverage is never an exact amount.