There are many competing companies in the field of printer and fax development but Brother have had an interesting journey and a level of diversity into other fields, which gives it an edge when it comes to research and development.The original company has it's founding roots in Nagoya in Japan, over a century ago but they also established themselves in Europe around 50 years ago. Initially the main thrust of business was sewing machines (and even some motorcycle forays) but during the 1970's and 1980's, the company realised consumers needed electronic typewriters, shortly followed by moving the focus to fax machines and printers, as well.

Brother have managed to be the first to develop a couple of outstanding products in the printer world, including the world's first high speed dot matrix printer and latterly, a mobile device printer. They were also one of the first companies to offer a laser and ink multifunctional machine; which dragged the competition to follow suit and therefore create a competitive market place for buyers.

With all this innovation, Brother products are one of our most popular ranges of toners and inks we sell. Brother ink is available for such printers as the DCP, MFC and LC series of ink printers. We then offer a wide range of Brother toner cartridge for the DCP, HL, MFC, TN, P, Intellifax and Fax series of printers. Brother have an extensive and committed recycling and environmentally friendly programme to make sure their printers comply to globally recognised environmental standards. If you have a Brother toner or ink cartridge to recycle, it is a question of following this link [http://www.brother.co.uk/g3.cfm/s_page/204810/s_name/recycling22/s_level/224610] and clicking on the links for the correct type of product you have. The webpage is easy to use and lists a raft of other useful pieces of information. Apparently Brother have recycled over seven million laser toners to date, which is a pretty impressive feat.

Brother also recommend using a duplex functionality to help keep the cost down for the user both financially and environmentally. They offer a number of printers with this functionality and they also offer a neat calculator to allow you to enter a rough estimate of how many pages you print in a week and it then gives you statistics on how much you would save both weekly and yearly if you were to swap over to double sided printing. It also shows you how many trees this ultimately saves too!

Finally, one other way of saving money when buying Brother toner is to buy bundles of toners, which not only keeps the stock room nicely prepared for those times when someone has a large job to complete in a hurry but it also helps to cut costs significantly. It is sometimes difficult to explain to the accounts department why there needs to be a larger expenditure initially to purchase toner but a simple spreadsheet will show how much cheaper buying this way, works out over the course of the quarter or year. If you have any questions on how to which options are best for you, please give us a call on 0800 783 5839.