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The HP 49X, Give your HP LaserJet printer a genuine toner cartridge today!
Date of Review: Dec 30, 2008
The Bottom Line: Shop around for the best price and take advantage of the HP recycling program to recover supply costs.
The HP Q5949AO is a universal toner cartridge that works in the HP LaserJet 1160, HP LaserJet 3390 and HP LaserJet 1320 line of printers. The toner replacement cartridge is easy to install and can be done in as few as 5 minutes. In IT replacing printer cartridges is a daily fact of life. HP printers are the highest quality product on the market not just because of the equipment but also the support they provide for their supplies. The HPQ5949 is an example of the commitment to excellence that the company has. You find this product is easy to replace and the printer's self calibration routine makes the biggest challenge finding a way to dispose of the old part. Yet, this is now much easier than you may think! The HP PurchaseEdge and Planet Partners Recycling program combine to give you free shipping materials and bonus rewards for taking the time to save the environment!
Replacement Procedure
First, you do not need to turn off the printer to perform these steps. If you turn off the printer, you will run the risk of deleting any queued print jobs. When the HP LaserJet 1320 series printer runs out of toner the LCD display will indicate which cartridge is out. In my case it was the black laser toner that needed replacing. Open the door labeled with a 1 in the upper right corner. You will see a chart on the door guiding you through the process this let me know I was in the right section of the case. Remove the new cartridge from its box and remove any blue tape left on it. Next with no more than 10lbs of force remove the old cartridge from the printer. As a precaution to prevent paper jamming, use a can of compressed air to blow out any accumulated paper fibers. Then simply insert the new cartridge with no more than 10lbs of force. After replacement the HP LaserJet 1320 series printer will go through a short process of self calibration. Once complete, the printer will print any queued print jobs automatically for you.
Proper Printing Procedures
Make sure you use the proper paper stock to take advantage of the high resolution that this toner cartridge and HP Laserjet printer can provide. Using standard weight office paper, 20lb / 92 bright, will yield a blurry image because the paper cannot handle the high amount of toner required to reproduce an image on the paper. For printing promotional flyers with extra quality, I recommend at least a 60lb / 94 bright paper to get vibrant grey scale coloring. The higher weight paper is cheaper than glossy or semi-glossy stock and can be reused for other business printing needs.
HP PurchasEdge
Simply put, PurchasEdge allows you to earn points for purchasing HP supplies. To save time, you HP wholesaler can automatically submit your invoices to HP for you so the points will be automatically tabulated. You gain on point for every $4 USD spent on over 1,400 qualifying HP supplies. The points can be redeemed on dozens of HP products. I used my points to redeem a free, large format inkjet printer that would normally cost $1,800.
HP Planet Partners Recycling Program
You can return used cartridges to HP with a supplied shipping label. In 1997, HP started accepting inkjet printer cartridges for recycling. Today over 76 million inkjet and laser toner cartridges have been recycled world-wide! Returned supplies are sorted and shredded. Plastics and metals from these cartridges have been used in new products such as clothes hangers, auto body parts, fence posts, roof tiles, shoe soles and serving trays. No HP print cartridges returned through the Planet Partners program are sent to the landfill. The HP supplies recycling initiative is not only environmentally friendly but also economically responsible because the HP PurchasEdge rewards program is tied to the whole process through additional point incentives.
Cross Reference And Specifications
Works with HP 1160, HP LaserJet 3390 and HP 1320 printers.
Toner product also marketed as: HP 5949X, HP 49X and HP 49A
2,500 Page Yield
Summary
The HP Q5949A black toner replacement cartridge is a good product because it does not leak toner even while in continuous service for years. I highly recommend preordering the product so that you will always have a replacement on hand in a printing emergency.
