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Risographs are hard to find (in working order).

I briefly experimented with trying to load my own colored toner in an old laser printer cartridge and got nowhere.

I honestly don't remember what the failure was — may have been that the printer I was using didn't have an easy-to-access cartridge where I could just dump in new toner. Or it's possible it was a B&W laser printer and either the fuser didn't cook off the toner or somehow the toner was not statically clinging correctly to the paper.

Anyone know of any experiments like this to create your own poor-man's Risograph with a used laser printer?

I was trying to use a B&W laser printer because I knew there would be no mediation by the driver to determine "which cartridge to use". I suppose I could try to swap toner cartridges in a color printer and somehow convince the printer driver to only use the K cartridge (where perhaps I have loaded green toner — a mix of course of yellow and cyan toner that I will have prepared ahead of time).



> Risographs are hard to find (in working order).

I see that the company has a website that sells brand-new machines. Are they not suitable for this kind of printing?

Or do you mean that it is hard to find a "service" with a working machine?


TIL, they still make these printers!

Due to the price though I'm still looking for a boneheaded hack using a cheap used laser printer with user-supplied custom toner.




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