HP LJ 5200 / Q7516A MICR Toner Cartridge in R&D

We’ve put off developing the HP Q7516A MICR toner cartridge for the HP LaserJet 5200 series for several years, the thought being there isn’t much demand for printing checks on a wide format printer. Recently we’ve had enough inquiries to warrant producing a HP MICR toner cartridge for the LaserJet 5200. The LaserJet 5200 takes a HP Q7516A toner cartridge that yields 15,000 pages at 5% coverage. We expect to be shipping our Q7516A New MICR toner cartridge in early May 2012.

The Q7516A is compatible with the entire HP LaserJet 5200 series, including the 5200n, 5200dn, 5200tn, 5200dtn.

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Join HP PurchasEdge for free HP LaserJet Printers

Join HP PurchasEdge

There’s a program from HP that few people use, but many could benefit from, it’s called PurchasEdge. PurchasEdge is designed for businesses that buy more than $500 of HP consumables (inkjet and toner cartridges) in a year. With PurchasEdge, you get 1 point for every $4 USD of HP inkjet and toner cartridges you buy. Once you accumulate some points you can purchase HP laser printers, inkjet printers, ScanJet scanners with your points. I’ve worked it out and it represents a 2-3% additional savings.

The best thing about the PurchasEdge program is that we do all the work. Once you sign up for PurchasEdge, all you need to do is give us your 6 digit PurchaseEdge number and we’ll submit the invoices to HP. It’s very easy.

Note you can only accumulate PurchaseEdge points for Genuine HP toner cartridges, Advantage Brand and New HP MICR Toner Cartridges are not eligible.

To get started, enroll in PurchasEdge today: http://www.purchasedge.com/join/549688

Once you are registered, you’ll need to email us your 6 digit HP PurchasEdge Account number. HP usually emails your account number the day after you register. We need your account number to submit your invoices. That’s it, we’ll handle the rest.

New: HP LaserJet 600 Series M601N MICR Laser Printer

HP LaserJet 600 M601N MICR Laser Printer

We’ve just released the HP M601N MICR laser printer (CE989A). The M601N replaces the P4014N. The printers are virtually identical with the exception that the M601N uses the HP CE390A MICR toner Cartridge. This is a great workgroup printer at 45ppm and a duty cycle of 175,000 pages per year.

http://www.advlaser.com/HP-LaserJet-M601N-MICR-Laser-Printer-p/rcprm601nnm.htm

Here are some quick specs:

Suggested Use: High Volume / Large Workgroup
Monthly Duty Cycle: Up to 175,000 pages
Maximum Pages Per Minute:  45
Toner Cost Per Page:  1.55 cents (Using new HP Cartridge)
MICR Toner Cost Per Page:  2.59 cents
Warranty:  1 Year

Advantage continues to get ratings of 4.8 out of 5 on pricegrabber.com.

Advantage continues to get ratings of 4.8 out of 5 on pricegrabber.com.  Our all-time rating is 4.8 and our rating in the last 3 months is 4.84. You hear nightmare stories about the horrible service out there. We are striving to give great service, and it shows. We want to make buying MICR toner and check paper a pleasure.

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Pricegrabber ratings as of 2/6/2012

http://reviews.pricegrabber.com/advantage-laser-products/r/12430/

HP LaserJet M603dn vs. Dell 5330dn face off

Thinking of buying an enterprise / workgroup printer? We recently received a printer comparison comparing the HP LaserJet 600 M603dn to the Dell 5330dn. We are big fans of HP printers. Why? They are the most reliable printers made.

I’ve posted HP’s comparison below. The one thing I don’t get is HP is comparing a $1,649 HP printer to a $1,099 Dell printer. Note the Dell printer is essentially a Lexmark T650 printer.  I’d add two more bullets to the list 1)  the HP printer costs 50% more than the Dell printer, 2) MICR toner isn’t readily available for the Dell 5230n, while we stock MICR Toner cartridges for the HP M603dn.

HP LaserJet Enterprise 600 M603dn List Price $1,649

HP LaserJet 600 M603dn

1. HP innovations make it easy to reduce energy use and print from mobile devices. Leading solutions make printer management easy.
2. Cut energy use as much as 45%, compared to a majority of competing laser printers.* Save even more energy with HP Auto-On/Auto-Off Technology,
3. Hardware integration pocket integrates and protects third-party security card solutions
4. HP ePrint enables printing from mobile devices
5. Print bold, crisp text and sharp images with HP FastRes 1200 and HP original toner
6. Control costs and manage IT resources with best-in-class HP Web Jetadmin and leading HP Universal Print Driver; apply custom energy-saving options using the HP EcoSMART Console (may need firmware upgrade)

VS

Dell 5330dn List Price $1,099  

1. Designed for less robust environments with lower print speed and consumes 55% more energy
2. The Dell 5330dn has a 24%  slower black print speed than HP (50ppm vs. 62ppm)
3. The Dell 5330dn has an 83% slower first-page-out time from energy-saving mode than HP – 25.7 seconds vs. only 14 seconds – HP can warm up and print up to 12 pages before Dell can even finish warming up
4. Consumes 55% more energy annually than HP (339.3 kWh vs. 218.7kWh)
5. The Dell printer does not support walk-up USB
6. The Dell printer has lower maximum toner capacity than HP (20,000 pages vs. 24,000 pages)
7. The Dell 3330dn has 11% less maximum input capacity than HP (3,200 vs. 3,600 sheets)
8. The Dell 5330dn has a 10% lower monthly duty cycle than HP (250K pages vs. 275K pages)

Tis the season – HP & Lexmark Toner Price Increase 2-17%

If you have an older HP LaserJet printer, you may want to stock up on supplies before the year is out. HP has announced a price increase effective January 1st, 2012 for all HP LaserJet toner cartridges. Cartridges for older machines or “legacy cartridges” will go up 12-17%, while cartridges from newer machines will only go up 2%. Our prices for new HP toner cartridges will go up January 1st, however our prices for new HP MICR toner cartridges will not go up until January 15th, 2012. We are stocking up on legacy cartridges to be converted into Premium or New MICR toner cartridges and will pass along lower costs as long as we can.

If you want to avoid the price increase, try our Advantage brand toner cartridges. You can expect the same print quality of Advantage brand toner cartridges as a new HP, they are the green lower cost alternative, and they’re backed by a money back guarantee. You can’t go wrong with Advantage toner cartridges!

While we can’t get our hands on a official list of legacy cartridges, we’ve been told by industry sources that the legacy list included the following cartridges:

• Q5949A, Q5949X – LaserJet 1320, 1160, 3390
• 92298A – LaserJet 4, 4+, 5
• C9303A – LaserJet 5p, 6p
• C3906A – LaserJet 5l, 6l
• C3909A – LaserJet 8000, 5si
• C4196A – LaserJet 2100, 2200
• C4127A, C4127X – LaserJet 4000, 4050
• C4182X – LaserJet 8100, 8150
• C7115A, C7115X – LaserJet 1200, 1000, 1005, 1220, 3320n mfp
• C8061A, C8061X – LaserJet 4100, 4150
• Q2613A, Q2613X – LaserJet 1300
• C9720A – Color LaserJet 4600, 4650
• C9730A – Color LaserJet 5500, 5550

In addition to HP, Lexmark is also increasing prics by 3-7% January 1st.  While our new Lexmark cartridges will increase in price, our we don’t anticipate that our Lexmark new MICR toner cartridges will go up in price.

Happy Holidays – Closed December 26th and January 2nd

Just a reminder, we’ll be closed December 26th and January 2nd. However you can still place your orders online 24/7 and we’ll get them out the following day.  January is our busiest month of the year, and we are preparing in December to make sure your MICR toner and Check Paper orders go out same day as always.

Speaking of the new year, it’s almost tax season. We’ve got your 1099′s and w-2′s in stock. Check out our tax forms.

QuickBooks Voucher Checks Now Available with Real-time Preview/Approval & Free Logos

We’ve finally updated the ordering process for QuickBooks voucher checks and printable deposit slips. Previously you had to fill out an online form, we’d receive it,  print a proof, then fax the proof back for your approval. This slowed the process of receiving your checks considerably. Now with our updated online ordering of QuickBooks checks you can view your proof online and submit an approved check. Most order ordered online will now ship within 24 hours of placing your order.

Free Logos – Now that our website has been updated, you can now submit your check and print your company logo with no additional charge. In addition you have some control over how your checks look, including the ability to select font, bold face for lines 1 & 2, # of signature lines, text alignment, line 1 & 2 on stub and even see how your check will look with your selected check paper color. And you can see the changed made to your check real-time.