How does Dell Toner determine it is EMPTY ?

Question

I am thinking of buying a 3000cn or 3100cn color laser   Does anyone know how the laser decides when a toner cartridge is empty and must be replaced?   Does the cartridge actually go all the way EMPTY before being replaced, or is there some kind of COUNTER that decides the toner must be replaced after some number of pages?   Laser toner in general, and color toner specifically, is expensive enough that I do not want the printer deciding I must replace a cartridge that has not actually gone empty

JohnTSmith · Answer

It would appear that 'Community Forum' means Dell tech support does not read/post here, so if no other Dell USER knows the answere... there IS no answer, which means I must call Dell to see if anyone there knows if their toner FORCES a change after some pre-determined print count, or if the toner actually is used up before I must change the cartridge

jakef · Answer

what is the answer? or did u get someone from dell that just burped out an answer w/o really knowing anything?

JohnTSmith · Answer

I followed about a Zillion links on Dell's site, and finally found a place to send a Question... but it has been over a week and no answer It looks like I stay with my current BW laser for now

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