We, as amended by NOMOBILE.RU, have long had to change printers. Therefore, we ordered two medium hand lasers - Canon i-sensys LBP3010. The manufacturer claims that the most comfortable for printing technology, the highest quality and long-lived - original cartridges. Only they are usually the most expensive. But since we delivered two printers to the editorial office, we could not pass by the opportunity to experiment - to compare two different cartridges on two identical devices: one is the original and the second is the so-called. "compatible".
The first cartridge, Cartridge 712 - original, native, Canon'inchesky. Designed exclusively for i-sensys LBP3010 / 3100 series printers. Under the slogan, which we loosely translated, “qualitatively enters, qualitatively leaves” (Quality input, Quality output). The second is not yet a well-known brand in a gray-green box with maple leaves - with an absolutely identical note - "especially for Canon i-sensys LBP3010 / 3100 Series printers".
We decided that our task for this month is to print everything that is needed (and not very), in parallel on two printers. Compare image quality and cartridge life. And every week to sum up the intermediate results of a kind of printed batch. ')
So, two absolutely identical printers, and two different cartridges. Each in the characteristics says that it will be enough for 1500 sheets. In the first round, we decided to bang the entire resource, feeding 6 packs of sheets of paper for two.
Both cartridges coped with the task: each gave out fifteen hundred A4 sheets, and the pictures at the end of the round surprisingly did not lose their brightness. That is, both in the canonical and in the compatible something else remained on the bottom, and they were able to print something.
But if the cartridges managed, then the printers brought a lot of trouble - somewhere in the middle of the competition they decided that they were tired. Almost simultaneously, with a difference of a minute. They were so hot that they could be fried eggs. And, of course, they began to print much slower: instead of the stated 14 pages per minute, they began to give out 1-2. But the strangest thing is that after overheating, they became out of sync and began to print whoever they want: one faster, the other slower, and refused to give the same picture, as seen in the video. As a result, we gave them a rest (they cooled for 12 hours - all night!), And continued in the morning. But in the morning the problem repeated, and in about twenty minutes. Conclusion: printers fail, and cartridges OK. The score is 1: 1. But for the purity of the experiment next week, we will try to simultaneously "kill" another cartridge. And then another. And maybe more :) To understand who is cooler.