Small business owners are aware of how much the expense copier and printer toner can eat into profits. What many individuals don't know is that there are toner cartridges available that, while not being a name brand, are both safe and reliable for use in their printers, and also cost way less. For example, let me tell you the story of what happened when one of our clients purchased a big shipment of remanufactured Oki 7400n toner.

Bill Walters is a project manager. He is employed at a regional restaurant supply business that is reasonably sized. After some extensive searching, Bill learned that Oki toner was available at a much lower price than the toner he was buying. The toner that he used, the Oki 7400 toner, was available online. By buying the less expensive ink, he was able to save the business a ton of cash.

Bill's business owned a fleet of 200 Oki c7400n machines, and he had some of his employees install all of them with remanufactured cartridges. To start out, he was unsure about how well they would work, but he soon had to agree that the remanufactured toners were every bit as high quality as the high-cost brand name toners that his business would usually order. "I checked out some of the copies personally," Bill wrote, "and they looked good - good ink yield, adequate coverage, no smudges."

The compatible Oki 7400n supplies are produced using the same or even superior technology and toners. In addition, their producers do exactly the same quality control tests on their cartridges as the brand name manufacturers. That means that compatible cartridges are high quality products that are available for a much lower price.

Three months later, Bill was named the manager of the month, and this honor was awarded to him partially due to his successful attempts at cutting costs by switching to the compatible Oki 7400n toner. Also, Bill's supervisors requested that he oversee and manage toner orders throughout the whole company, giving him the opportunity to help them save tens of thousands of dollars every year.

Bill's letter can serve as inspiration to all of us who are looking for those small ways to cut costs and help the revenues of our businesses. Ask your office supplier if they carry compatible Oki toner cartridges, and do the price comparison yourself, to see how making a small change can make a huge difference.