UK owners of laser printers need to worry about buying ink toner cartridges, too. Even though laser printers take a long time to run out of powder. What some don’t know is that a toner is not printer ink. Toners are containers for electrically charged powdery particles encased in wax suspension. The charge of the powder in the casing is opposite the charge of the paper, making the powder to fuse with the paper’s surface. The toner cartridge simply acts as a container for the powder. To keep costs within limits, since toner cartridges can be expensive, you may want to find out about remanufactured toner cartridges. Although toner cartridges can last longer than inkjet cartridges, remanufactured toner cartridges last longer than the original cartridges. Remanufactured cartridges produce high quality print outs like the original cartridges.