Great work! I just ordered some virgin toner cartridges and white toner from Ali express to convert my Brother B&W laser into a white toner printer. Hopefully I get similar results!
This does not work. It has to be a colour laser printer because of the way the developing system works, I tried this myself to test it out, but failed totally.
This could be an affordable alternative to the old ALPS microdry machines for making decals. The stickers look as though the white undercoat looks to be aligned perfectly with the overlaid coat on top.
Sadly there is no video that shows this and I just undertook the process on myself. Tips to remember. don't leave the toner green drum in sunlight. Ware a mask! Your need to completely dismantle the toner Make sure you empty all the towner out before you try to wash the parts as the power is almost waterproof.
It's essentially a thermoplastic powder melted onto the surface. . The melting temperature will be somewhere in the region of 120° - 150°C . (And yes, I know what I'm talking about)
can this be done using inkjet? Like have two inkjet printers, one with all colors and the other with only white ink and double passing the paper to get white?
@@ygrabo Why not? Someone sells white ink. Not all print heads do well with pigment inks, and that's what you get since a white dye is impossible, but say Epson do just fine.
I have tried printing with white ink in a washed out black ink cartridge but with no luck, tried alcohol and water based inks, even tried mixing my own with titanium dioxide but it didn't work for me, but I still think it's worth experimenting, maybe you find something that works.
The problem you have with inkjet is that it is an ink and the white will always be slightly transparent. There is also the problem with alignment using 2 printers. With Lasers the toner is melted to the page :) As for costs on lasers you can get a cheap printer like my one HP CP2025 for around £50/80
Speaking as a fully qualified lasercopier/ printer technician. Those units look a lot like what are more properly described as an "image processs unit" with the toner hopper/ development/ drum and charge units combined.... But whatever. . Anyway, not that I would ever recommend doing what you do.... (But 99% of my work is machines on contract and we would charge the customer when it goes "tits up")... But.... If you're printing a 2 colour image with black "and another colour"... Why not leave the BLACK cartridge in the machine. Swap the toner in the (spare/ new) YELLOW unit (as you did) and leave the original chip in that unit, thrn replace it in the YELLOW position? . Then Print the 2 colour image in ONE pass as "Black and YELLOW" with the yellow printed as WHITE? . If you want to print single colour "White", just set the image to "yellow" once its finalised. . Just a thought.
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That's freakin' cool! Amazing job!
Good to know that this works, I might get a tube of powder myself now from Mr. Ali 👌
nice 1 mike
Great work! I just ordered some virgin toner cartridges and white toner from Ali express to convert my Brother B&W laser into a white toner printer. Hopefully I get similar results!
This does not work. It has to be a colour laser printer because of the way the developing system works, I tried this myself to test it out, but failed totally.
Did it work?
This could be an affordable alternative to the old ALPS microdry machines for making decals. The stickers look as though the white undercoat looks to be aligned perfectly with the overlaid coat on top.
I just ordered the white toner...can you please link the video you watched to clean out the old color fully to add the white? Thanks
Sadly there is no video that shows this and I just undertook the process on myself.
Tips to remember. don't leave the toner green drum in sunlight.
Ware a mask!
Your need to completely dismantle the toner
Make sure you empty all the towner out before you try to wash the parts as the power is almost waterproof.
@@mikes_corner Thanks for the response. Guess I will make a video for my specific cartridge when it comes. You are a trailblazer!!!
My concern would be durability. How easily does it scratch off? Will it fade/yellow? etc
There are no fire-retardant chemicals in toner so no yellowing.
And I would think it would be as durable as most stickers could be. :)
It's essentially a thermoplastic powder melted onto the surface.
.
The melting temperature will be somewhere in the region of 120° - 150°C
.
(And yes, I know what I'm talking about)
can this be done using inkjet? Like have two inkjet printers, one with all colors and the other with only white ink and double passing the paper to get white?
nope
@@ygrabo Why not? Someone sells white ink. Not all print heads do well with pigment inks, and that's what you get since a white dye is impossible, but say Epson do just fine.
I have tried printing with white ink in a washed out black ink cartridge but with no luck, tried alcohol and water based inks, even tried mixing my own with titanium dioxide but it didn't work for me, but I still think it's worth experimenting, maybe you find something that works.
The problem you have with inkjet is that it is an ink and the white will always be slightly transparent.
There is also the problem with alignment using 2 printers.
With Lasers the toner is melted to the page :)
As for costs on lasers you can get a cheap printer like my one HP CP2025 for around £50/80
Inkjets are a minefield anyway, why add possible problems?
Nice! Did you have to print a clean-up page when swapping back to black toner?
@KolyaNadj All I did was swap the toner out . No needs to print anything to clean the system :)
@@mikes_corner I just bought HP laser colour MFP. This is a very nice trick, with the white toner. Tnx for the idea :)
Speaking as a fully qualified lasercopier/ printer technician.
Those units look a lot like what are more properly described as an "image processs unit" with the toner hopper/ development/ drum and charge units combined.... But whatever.
.
Anyway, not that I would ever recommend doing what you do.... (But 99% of my work is machines on contract and we would charge the customer when it goes "tits up")...
But....
If you're printing a 2 colour image with black "and another colour"...
Why not leave the BLACK cartridge in the machine.
Swap the toner in the (spare/ new) YELLOW unit (as you did) and leave the original chip in that unit, thrn replace it in the YELLOW position?
.
Then
Print the 2 colour image in ONE pass as "Black and YELLOW" with the yellow printed as WHITE?
.
If you want to print single colour "White", just set the image to "yellow" once its finalised.
.
Just a thought.
You should probably wear some kind of mask when doing this. It's probably not very healthy to inhale