toner

The paper brightness can be ISO 98 or even ISO 102 and the black toner is extremely comfortable to read.

Miser on the toner, and a solid piece of hardware even after thousands of pages have been run through it.

It's been printing perfectly for years and is on its second toner cartridge now.

You mention cartridges with brings to mind famously uncompetitive coffee and printer toner parallels.

Ink and toner being more expensive by weight than...a whole bunch of luxury goods[1].

They're used as feeders for their print business, value add for their contract customers, and sources of toner cartridges to be remanufactured.

Many countries including US allies would like to pinch a CIA employee even if it's the guy who makes changes the toner..

This dust - we call it toner - is actually the dead bodies of all those mites.

My printer refused to print because it thought the toner was all gone.

A black marker to the sensor on the side of the toner and I'm back and printing.

And then my housemates started bugging me about ordering more printer toner.

And consumables, particularly remanufactured toner, are big cash cows.

Just like when marketers started reproducing the "signature" on every sales letter with blue-colored toner, mimicking the authenticity of a hand signature.

One very real example was that I once said "Hey Dave, it would not be hard at all to modify Toner Tuner's code in a very small way to make a hardcopy watermarking utility".

If your statement was true, I would think there would be a massive demand for dark grey toner printed on light grey paper because it is "less strain on the eyes." The evolution of Amazon Kindles are also moving towards better contrast.

I don't think I would consider the arrangement of paper to be a program because it doesn't change the way the machine itself operates (though perhaps one could argue it does at the level of photons and toner molecules--or that a computer just blindly "goes through the motions" with its inputs as much as a copier does with its paper input).

Toner gives me a lot more prints, never goes bad because of disuse, and looks better.

My grandfather could cut more turf in a day Than any other man on Toner's bog.

My grandfather cut more turf in a day Than any other man on Toner’s bog.