I see that the toner sold for the DocuColor 240/242/250/252/260 are also sold to be used in the WorkCenter 7655/7665/7675/7755/7765/7775. My question is can it also work the other way.....the toner sold for the Workcenter also be used in the Docucolor. The Toner for Workcenter 7328, 7335, 7345, 7228, 7235, 7245 we can get at a better price. I am not concerned about the cartridge or case being the same size..just the toner inside.
Are all the toners from xerox CMYK dry toner machines the same toner inside. Just different cases????
Thanks For Your Help
It isn't really a case that the 240/250/260 "can also be used" in the 76xx/77xx... They are the SAME part number, so there is no DocuColor 250 toner vs. Workcentre 76xx/77xx toner. They're the same.
As to the second half of your question... Yes-ish. To the best that anyone outside of Xerox can tell, the 76xx and 73xx are the same toner. Both are EA-HG, and both appear to be the SAME EA-HG. Careful about getting carried away, though... The DocuColor 3535 toner is NOT EA-HG, it is the original EA. Many say it works fine. And MECHANICALLY it does work fine. (In other words it won't "mess up" the machine's developer assemblies or anything.) But the color balance, for those with color critical work, may not be ideal as the EA color formulations, especially in magenta, are different than the EA-HG formulations. This means that the printer may put down toner a certain way, expecting it to come out a certain way, but because you've used a different toner, the end result may different.
That said, the difference shouldn't be too great and for many applications is fine. But if you work is color critical, I wouldn't recommend it.
And for the 73xx series, it IS in fact the same EA-HG, so theoretically it should be no problem at all.
This however doesn't take into account the messy tediousness of transposing the toner from one container to another, and also doesn't take into account the chip issue, since the DC250/WC76xx are chipped...
And, most importantly, it doesn't take into account the AMOUNT of toner in the cartridge. It will take roughly two 73xx cartridges (at +-380g each) to equal one 76xx cartridge (at 737g each). So make sure you take that into account when you're deciding if it is really worth it! (The exception is black, which is a little bit closer. 645g for the 73xx and 780g for the 76xx.) So those 73xx cartridges would have to be HALF the price of the 76xx to even be a wash, not counting the messy hassle of dealing with toner AND dealing with the expired chips.
I've found it to not be worth it. Life is cleaner without dumping toner.
And your last question, are all toners the same, no, most certainly not! There are usually a few machine which all share the same toner, but, definitely not all!
In Xerox's recent lineup, we've got (in order from oldest to newest)
(1) Oil-requiring pulverized toner (DC12/DC6060/DC8000)
(2) EA toner (1632/2240/3535 + WCP32/WCP32, etc)
(3) Oil-requiring "EA" toner (iGen)
(4) EA-HG toner (DC250 + WC 72xx, 73xx, 76xx, 77xx + Phaser 7750, 7760)
(5) EA-Eco toner (700, 800/1000)
(6) Oil-requiring oddball pulverized toner (7002/8002)
The list of machines which use each toner is not meant to be exhaustive... Just representative.
Some of these are cross-compatible, if your work is not color critical as I explained. But certainly you can never use an oil-requiring toner in a non-oil machine. The reverse is almost certainly true, too, and they are are SUCH different toners, their color formulations are probably considerably more different as well.
While EA and EA-HG can go back and forth in a "lenient" environment, EA-Eco CAN'T... It will work mechanically, again because it is the same type of toner, but its low melting point causes it to become crazy-crazy glossy if used in a machine designed for the higher-melting-point EA or EA-HG. A side effect of this intense gloss is the saturation of the prints is WAY WAY too high. It's kind of ironic since the X700 toner is LESS glossy when used in its own machine, but crazy glossy when used in a 76xx.