Providing alternative color cartridges in the OEM market has been tricky. Micro Solutions Enterprises’s announcement this week could mean good things on that front.
Micro Solutions Enterprises (MSE) announced its latest patent-pending technology enhancement to its own Intelligent Re-Engineering manufacturing process. The company says the enhancement will address and virtually eliminate traditional 4600 issues related to streaking (aka backgrounding) and toner buildup.
“This innovation will significantly reduce failure rates on this model and is also being investigated for other models, such as the HP 4700, HP 5500 and others,” the company states in a press release sent to EH Publishing.
MSE makes a full line of compatible monochrome, color, MICR and JUMBO toner cartridges. †The company utilizes more than 30 patents and patent-pending technologies in their Intelligent Re-Engineering manufacturing process. MSE’s manufacturing capacity exceeds 300,000 toner cartridges per month.
Craig Faczan, MSE’s marketing manager, says color has been a longstanding challenge for makers of OEM compatibles. “In particular,” he say, “the HP 4600 has been one of the most challenging products to make consistently in large scale production.”
Faczan says MSE has developed four patents and several patent-pending technologies addressing the HP 4600 difficulties. “Even though the 4600 is nearly 8 years old, MSE is committed to continuous improvement and is still innovating. To date, MSE has 10 patents and more than 20 pending.”
Luke Goldberg, a senior vice president with MSE, the color market is of vital importance to the compatibles market. “The only way the aftermarket will increase its penetration into the color market is prove to OEM users that there is a true viable alternative. That is why MSE will continue to invest in leading-edge, patented technologies because ultimately it ensures the sustainability of our market”
