Your printer should never be a point of stress in your life. 

Office equipment should be dependable; it should run optimally and interrupt your work as little as possible. 

One way to make sure your work life (and printer) runs smoothly is to replace damaged parts and service your machine on time, every time.

In this article, we’re going to provide you with instructions that will help you quickly replace the waste toner container on a Xerox VersaLink C500 series printer.

Without the waste toner container, your printer can’t run as optimally or effectively store toner waste, but sometimes, the waste container is treated as an afterthought. 

However, this part is vital for the health of your printer and needs to be replaced when damaged.

It can be hard keeping up with all the problems life throws at you. 

Sometimes, everything happens at once: you have a family emergency and a deadline at work…and then the work printer needs to have a part replaced in the middle of it all. 

It can be hard to keep up, but you know you have to replace supplies on time to keep your printer and your office running. 

Although the waste toner container on your Xerox printer seems like an afterthought, it is still important for you to replace it when necessary. Without your waste toner container, your machine can’t run as optimally or effectively store toner waste.

Unfortunately, the waste container replacement process varies between models, which can make it complicated for those who don’t know much about printer maintenance, and the relatively simple process of changing parts can be made more complicated by inexperience or poorly written instruction inserts. 

Many people assume it’s impossible for printing to be “green,” but the truth is that printing is more sustainable than most people realize.

While choosing an eco-friendly printer paper option is a good way to safeguard the environment, you can also find reassurance in the fact that printing isn’t necessarily a forest-killer.

For almost 40 years, STPT’s printer experts have worked to offer innovative office solutions for businesses in North Texas. 

We understand how important it is for our customers to consider the environmental impacts of their business decisions, which is why we’ve conducted research on the topic of printing, paper use, and sustainability.

In this article, we present 5 of the most relevant green facts about printing so you can make informed printing decisions using reliable information.

Like filling up your car with gas, replacing your printer toner when it runs out is important because your printer cannot run without toner. 

But the toner replacement process varies between models, which can make it complicated for those who don’t know much about printer maintenance.

The relatively simple process of changing printer toner can be made more complicated and confusing by inexperience or poorly written instruction inserts. Luckily, watching someone else replace printer toner on the same machine or reading a quick how-to article before you try replacing the toner on your own is a great, easy way to save yourself valuable time.

At STPT, we make it our goal to provide quality printing information that is easy to understand, so you know where to go to find answers to your print questions. 

It can be frustrating when you need to change or replace parts on your printer and don’t know how to do it. 

Every printer model is different, and many printer parts have different configurations, replacement time intervals, and service needs. Even printer toner, a common and necessary component of all Xerox laser printers, varies depending on what model printer you are using.

Like filling up your car with gas, replacing your printer toner when it runs out is important because your printer cannot run without toner. 

But the process varies between models, which makes replacements complicated for those who don’t know much about printer maintenance.

For some, replacing printer toner may be easy to figure out with just a little bit of help. 

For others, the relatively simple process of changing printer toner can be overly complicated and confusing.