We’ve made buying toner cartridges online as simple as can be. All you need to know to order from us is either a printer model or the toner cartridge you’re looking for, we’ll do the rest!
I know my laser printer: Use the printer wizard and navigation above to find your specific laser printer page, where all of the toner cartridges for that specific printer will be listed. The only cartridges on that page are the toners for your printer, making replacing the cartridge in your laser printer a breeze.

I know my toner cartridge: Type in the name or product reference of your toner cartridge into our search bar above and hit enter. The search results page will have the toner cartridge you’re looking for! (in the unlikely event it’s not, use our Live Chat and we’ll find the toner cartridge for you and get it added to the website immediately!).

If you click through to your cartridge page you’ll see all the information you need, and a list of printers that toner cartridge works in.

Toner Cartridges with free next day delivery

Not only have we made buying toner cartridges online for the UK increasibly easy, we’ve also made it fast! Delivery is free on any toner cartridge in our store, and if you place your order before 4pm we will ship it that day. Looking to order after 4pm? No problem, we will post it out the next morning for you. Let’s give you an example...

Jim orders some HP toner cartridges at 3:50pm on Monday. They’ll be in the post Monday evening by Royal Mail First Class, arriving with Jim Tuesday.

Sandra placed her order for Lexmark toner cartridges at 5pm on Monday. We’ll process and pick this order for her 8:30 Tuesday morning, so Sandra can get her much-needed laser toner on Wednesday!

Helping you find cheap toner cartridges

If you’ve recently taken over buying duties for your business, or are simply the owner of a new shiny laser printer, it can be quite daunting buying toner cartridges for the first time.

Printer toner can be expensive per-cartridge due to the length the cartridges last, so we’ve put together an information glossary below to help you understand what all the terms mean!

- Original / Genuine Toner Cartridges

An original toner cartridge is one produced for your printer by the same manufacturer as your printer. These are referred to as the OEM (original equipment manufacturer) toner cartridges.

e.g. A genuine Canon toner cartridge has been manufactured by Canon, for a Canon printer.

- Remanufactured/Refilled toner cartridges

A remanufactured toner cartridge is an OEM cartridge that has been used once, reconditioned and refilled. With all moving parts replaced, and the same quality toner being used, these cartridges offer a fantastic way of saving money.

These value toner cartridges provide at least as many pages as the OEM cartridge, though often print far more, helping you enjoy amazing value for your money.

We only ever supply cheap refilled toner cartridges from ISO approved suppliers, ensuring the highest quality prints from your laser printer.

- Compatible toner cartridges

Compatible toner cartridges are brand new toners made by a third party company. These toners have never been used before, but have been manufactured to work just as well as the OEM cartridges in specific printers.

All of our compatible cartridges come from quality assured, ISO approved suppliers, giving you peace of mind, plus we throw in a 6-month performance guarantee, so if you’re not happy for any reason you can enjoy a full refund.

Printer toner information

We don’t think laser printers get enough credit for the amazing technology that goes into each and every page they print.

We’ve put together an interesting fact file on laser printing and toner cartridges below, so if you have a minute or 2 to spare after buying online toner cartridges in our store, have a read and appreciate the technology that goes into every page you print.

What is Laser Toner?

Toner is the powder used by laser printers and photocopiers to form the printed text and images on a page.

In its early form printer toner was simply carbon powder. To improve the quality of the printout, the carbon was later melt-mixed with a polymer. The specific polymer used varies by manufacturer but (prepare for some Stinkyink science) can be a styrene acrylate copolymer, a polyester resin, a styrene butadiene copolymer, or a few other special polymers.

Toner is not a set size, and the granule size and melting point can vary significantly across different manufacturers. Originally, the particle size of toner averaged 14–16 micrometres or greater. To improve image resolution, particle size was reduced, eventually reaching about 8–10 micrometers for 600 dots per inch resolution.

Where Does Printer Toner Come From?

Toner has traditionally been made by compounding the ingredients and creating a slab which was broken or “pelletized”, then turned into a fine powder with a controlled particle size range by air jet milling. This process results in toner granules with varying sizes and aspherical, imperfect, shapes, which is not ideal for your printer quality..

To get a finer print, some companies are using a chemical process to grow toner particles from molecular reagents. This results in more consistent and uniform size and shapes of toner particles. These smaller shapes permit more accurate color reproduction and more efficient toner use.

Types of Laser Toner Cartridges

There are two basic types of toner cartridges available on the market today.

The most common is an all in one toner cartridge, which contains both the toner and an OPC drum. This means that the only consumable you have to replace is your toner cartridge, and once that’s empty you simply install a new one.

At the lower price range of the market, manufacturers use a separate drum and toner cartridge, which means that the drum needs to be replaced after every four or five toner cartridge replacements. Your laser printer will alert you which needs replacing so no need to worry!

How a Toner Cartridge Actually Works

Everyone knows of Static electricity, a small electrical charge that can build up on an insulated object. Think of rubbing a balloon and you’re on the right track. Science dictates that objects with opposite static electricity fields cling together.

Laser printers use this phenomenon as a sort of "temporary glue”. Using a whole host of electrical hardware, your laser printer manipulates the static charge across a drum, to attract toner which is then applied, and fused, to a page. But let’s break that down and see how it works step by step.

The Laser Printers Photoconductor and Drum Unit

Initially, the drum is given a positive charge by a charge corona wire, a wire with an electrical current running through it. As the drum revolves, a tiny laser beam is shone across the surface to discharge certain points.

In this way, the laser "draws" the letters and images to be printed as a pattern of electrical charges -- an electrostatic image. Think of how fast a laser printer can produce full-page documents and you’ll get an idea of how amazingly fast this process occurs!

After the pattern is set, the printer coats the drum with positively charged toner. Since it has a positive charge, the toner only clings to the negative discharged areas of the drum.

With the powder pattern affixed, the drum rolls over a sheet of paper. This paper has been negatively charged before reaching the drum by a transfer corona wire (charged roller). This charge is stronger than the negative charge of the electrostatic image, so the paper can pull the toner powder away. Since it is moving at the same speed as the drum, the paper picks up the image pattern exactly.

Finally, to keep the paper from clinging to the drum, it is discharged by a detac corona wire immediately after picking up the toner.

Fuser Units

This leads to the next crucial part of the laser printing process, a fuser unit. The paper moves through the fuser, a pair of heated rollers. As the paper passes through these rollers, the loose toner powder melts, fusing with the fibers in the paper. The fuser rolls the paper to the output tray, and you have your finished page.

The fuser also heats up the paper itself, of course, which is why pages are always hot when they come out of a laser printer or photocopier, and you experience curled edges if you use lightweight paper.

So what keeps the paper from burning up? Mainly, speed -- the paper passes through the rollers so quickly that it doesn't get very hot.

After depositing toner on the paper, the drum surface passes the discharge lamp. This bright light exposes the entire photoreceptor surface, erasing the electrical image. The drum surface then passes the charge corona wire, which reapplies the positive charge, and your laser printer is ready for another page.

And I bet you thought laser printers were simple little things didn’t you!