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Why are the Laser Toner Refill KitsLC are named after my printer engine?

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Why are the Laser Toner Refill KitsLC are named after my printer engine?

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Most people are completely unaware that the engine in their laser printer might also be used in hundreds of other printers and in some cases, plain-paper fax machines, as well. This is a very common practice. Consider the fact that Hewlett-Packard does not make a single laser printer, nor a single toner cartridge. Canon actually makes all of the Hewlett-Packard laser printers, plain-paper fax machines and toner cartridges for those machines. The only thing that belongs to HP is the logo and the profit when those items are sold. Those same Canon engines found in the Hewlett-Packard machines are also found in a wide variety of machines with other vendor names on the outside, DEC, Wang, Apple, QMS, to name a few. If we named a product after a particular manufacturer, we might have hundreds of products that are all the same, since those machines share the same engine. Instead, we use a simple series of numbers to refer to common printer, fax and photocopier engine. Once you use our constan

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