today announced the worldwide availability of its patent-pending
technology for tracking the true value of aftermarket extended yield
toner cartridges. ECi, developer of market-leading FMAudit® managed
print services solutions, and Static Control, the world’s leading
manufacturer of chip technology for the aftermarket industry, have
embarked on an exclusive technology alliance to provide this offering to
customers using Static Control’s patented extended yield chip
technology and FMAudit’s Central v4.0, featuring patent-pending tracking
technology.PAPER PICKUP ROLLER KITWithout this unique solution, a printer cannot distinguish between OEM
or aftermarket extended yield toner cartridges. As such, end users are
notified prematurely to replace the cartridge, often discarding upwards
of 50% of the remaining toner. In their attempt to save money on supply
costs, dealers end up paying more and often don’t have the data to know
why.
“Finding a solution to this fundamental problem was very important to
us,” said Kevin Tetu, President of FMAudit. “The opportunity to work
with Static Control to deliver on the promise of remanufactured extended
yield cartridges lowering supply costs is very exciting for us.”
The technology is designed to mitigate false alerting for non-OEM
extended-yield toner cartridges and allow dealers the opportunity to
realize a greater return on investment of these cartridges. Static
Control has developed proprietary chips specific to this objective that
are exclusively compatible with FMAudit software. In turn, FMAudit has
developed an algorithm to identify the true toner depletion of the
extended-yield toner and usage in these cartridges, resulting in more
accurate supply notifications and a lower-than-OEM per-page supply cost.
”As the imaging industry’s leader in chip technology, it’s great to work
with another industry leader like FMAudit to bring this solution to
market,” said Josh Braendle, MPS Business Manager at Static Control.
“Developing this solution like an OEM provides dealers greater results
to the bottom line, while increasing data analytics.”
