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Review on πŸ–¨οΈ Do it Wiser Compatible Toner - Ricoh SP C250DN, SP C250SF, SP C261SFN (4 Pack) - 407539, 407540, 407541, 407542 by Chad Mills

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Bad toner for RICOH

I bought a set of 4 toner cartridges from DO IT WISER for my SP C261SFNw printer and just installed it last month. Unfortunately, I only had to buy original RICOH toner tensioners from non-brand manufacturers. The colors on the printed pages came out light and washed out, nowhere near what they should have been, and there were vertical streaks on each page. I printed out the maintenance pages and the configuration pages to verify the result. The care pages were washed out and the colors had run out. The configuration pages had stripes on each of the 4 printed pages. At first I thought the fuser was defective so I replaced the original even though the total number of prints was only 3390 (the printer is only 2 years old). Replacing the fuser didn't fix the problem, so I tried shaking the toner cartridges to spread the toner more evenly, but that only worked for the first page. Subsequent pages reverted to the same terrible quality. By the way, the amount of toner in each cartridge was full, so that's not a problem either. On the advice of an IT person at my workplace, my last resort was to buy genuine RICOH toner and replace the inferior toner cartridges. As soon as I did that, the difference was instant! The maintenance page and configuration pages were EXACTLY how they should have appeared. I printed out a few pages from a news website and the colors were vibrant and there were no streaks. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend DO IT WISER toner for RICOH SP C261SFNw printers. I almost got rid of a great printer due to problems with this company's toner.

Pros
  • printer ink and toner
Cons
  • No color needed