Customer Reviews

HP LaserJet 12A Black Print Cartridge in Retail Packaging

5 star:		(198)
4 star:		(56)
3 star:		(23)
2 star:		(24)
1 star:		(60)

 

 

HP asked me $70 to replace my toner so I ordered this one. It worked well for a few days before I noticed some uneven grayness at the center of the page. I shaked the toner again and the problem disappeared.

I went with this toner cartridge based on the great reviews. However, maybe it was just a unique incident, but the toner cartridge I received did not have a solid working drum. It could print out a solid black page fine, but normal text came out uneven. And yes, I shook the toner cartridge plenty of times to spread the toner. The toner looks to be fine. I ended up having to transfer the toner back to the original HP cartridge and I'm back in action. I did not contact customer support since I could not afford to be without a working printer for more than a day.

HP charges about three times more for a new cartridge of this type. I have now gone through 3 of these cartridges with my LaserJet 1018, and I have had no problems. The cartridges last about 2,000 pages each, so the price-per-page is only a little over 1 cent (as opposed to 3 cents per page if you buy the official cartridges from HP). I also buy my paper by the case from Staples, so my total price-per-page of printing is about 2.5 cents. Very good deal, considering that I used to pay over 10 cents per page with an HP inkjet printer and official ink/paper supplies.

This toner cartridge is for the HP 1012 (and others). As fas as toner goes, this one lasts a long time. I use it often and for heavy duty printing, including resumes on resume paper, term papers for school on high quality laser paper, and websites, which usually contain images that come out in black and white, using up more toner. I would say that the toner gave me just about 2,500 sheets, and it is just now fading. When you balance the price of this printer with the price for toner every 2,500 sheets, it is a very good deal (less than 3 cents a page when calculating just the toner). My printer does not make any noise with this toner! If you have this printer, then you wont be sorry when using this toner replacement.

I bought this cartridge in November 2008. It's now July 2009. I'm a very heavy printer; I have already surpassed the advertised 2,000 pages as I have done more than 5 reams of 500pg printing paper to date.

What I have noticed is that this cartridge prints dark, but appears to print with the same intensity as you would get with the HP cartridge set on economy mode. This is fine; I used to set my HP on economy mode anyway since it used to spit toner on normal mode. But if you set this on economy mode and print you get a very light print, almost looking like scratches on the paper.

What I love is that I have not gotten the annoying light black vertical line that appears on the left or right of the paper when the cartridge ages. By this time my original HP cartridges begin to print this line, and that's when I know it's time to change over. Also my printer has very little toner residue inside since I put this baby in. Highly recommended.

I expected a toner that would do the job half as well as a genuine HP toner. But this product does the same quality for my printer that the genuine cartridge did. I do recommend this product and it is a good price.

This is a toner FOR HP, not BY HP.
It fades the entire paper as it prints, but since this is my first time using non-HP cartridge on my HP Printer, it would be too quick to assume all the toners from this company will do the same.
Fading is not really noticeable, and it will not be a problem unless you need to have the pure white background (or you want the pure white background) when you print.
It was a lot cheaper than OEM HP toner, and for printing out simple texts and forms, I wouldn't pay more to get a little brighter background.

I gave this 2 stars instead of one because eventually 500 pages later, the line going down every page I printed went away. The quality was never perfect, and I often had weird splotches. No, it wasn't my brand new laser printer. It was the cartridge. The fact is, you're taking a risk with the remanufactured toner cartridges. In my case it wasn't anything more than an annoyance because I was in grad school, and most of the stuff I printed up was to workshop with my peers. But I couldn't use it for anything professional. I have since purchased a brand new toner cartridge, and it works perfectly. This is not to say that EVERY remanufactured toner cartridge will have performance issues, but mine did.

Print quality is consistent. I'll check back if I get anywhere near the 2500 page yield. Much cheaper than name brand, for similar quality.

fast shipping. received in very good condition. package looks even better than HP originial one. Wasn't print well on the first few pages then realized that should to shake cartidge a couple times to mix the carbon powder inside. After that it works great. worth of money. highly recommend it.