EcoFont - Save 20% Toner

Check out the ecofont! Ecofont claims to you will use 20% less toner / ink over other fonts. I haven't tested the claimed savings, but you can see the holes in the stroke of the font. I'm sure this would work great for internal documents, if nothing else. When you print the font, the characters have a hollow look. In the toner business we would call hollow looking characters dropouts.

HP has offered an economode with their laserjet printers for years, but you have to remember to turn it on and off at the driver level. I don't think I've ever known anyone to use it.

Here's a preview of what the font looks like. The smaller faces just look light, but you really have a hard time seeing the holes.

To download the eco font, click here, it's free!

HP Toner - $40 Rebate

HP has a great rebate, buy two identical HP toner cartridges, get $40 cash. This is a great deal if you are already buying HP product anyway. This rebate does not apply to New HP MICR toner cartridges, just new non-micr toner cartridges. Rebate expires 8/31/2009.

Download the HP Toner Rebate PDF

HP Toner / Free Gas Card Offer

Receive a $15 American Express^® Fill-it-Up Gas Card^® With The Purchase of TWO OF THE SAME HP LaserJet Toner Cartridges!

(limit 5 gas cards per order)

Valid through Friday June 12, or while supplies last, receive a $15 American Express Fill-it-Up Gas Card with the purchase of ANY two HP LaserJet Toner Cartridges. Limit five (5) gas cards per order. Offer valid for both color and monochrome HP toner cartridges.

Just place your order online or by phone and

receive 1 $15 Off Gas Card for every 2 HP brand toner cartridges you order.

Order online at www.advlaser.com or call us at 800-722-2804.

Weak dollar and high oil prices driving HP prices up

The weak dollar and high oil prices are conspiring to bring about price increased for HP toner cartridges. The weaker dollar automatically makes oil prices increase all on its own. You've seen inflation in everything at the grocery store from bread to beef, and now we are starting to see the results in our little corner of the world.

As I wrote a month ago, in the face of significant UPS fuel surcharges, we plan to continue to offer free shipping on our toner cartridges, but unfortunately it looks like HP is raising prices 5-6% on it's toner and inkjet cartridges. We'll have no choice but to pass the cost increase along to our customers. This will affect new HP Product as well as our Premium MICR Cartridges (New MICR). On the plus side, maybe this will be an incentive for our customers to switch to Advantage Brand toner cartridges (Remanufactured). Advantage Cartridges have the same quality and guarantee as new cartridges. And now there will be an even greater savings.

HP announced the price increase effective September 1st, but our suppliers have told us they will not actually increase the price until October 1st. So be warned, new pricing will be here by October 1. If you are a big HP toner user, I'd go ahead and make an extra big order before October comes around.

Here's the HP price increase letter: