One-component toner as common and low-maintenance option

A fundamental difference of the different toner can meet their design based on one or two components.

In single-component toners, toner and developer powder per ink contained in a single cartridge, which supports easy maintenance of them equipped with printers and copiers. One-component toner come along in the most popular devices with small or medium-volume used. For optimal printing results, they can require a high quality of the developer powder and are therefore more expensive. The fine metal particles of the developer in a one-component toners fixed together with the color pigments in the printing paper, and there may not distort the color result.

In two-component toner and developer toners come together only during the printing operation for a short time. The developer in this case comes to the printing paper, but is then deposited in the waste toner container of the devices. Two-component toner used by the costly maintenance of working with them, copy and printing machines, especially in the printing market.