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A 32-year-old healthcare facility employee with the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center building on East 53rd Street was busted and arrested for apparently stealing more than a million dollars worth of toner cartridges over a three year period and selling them to the black market.

Marque Gumbs, who earned $37,000 annually from the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, allegedly lived the high-life right after selling the printer toner cartridges to the underground black market. He padded his checking account with $149,048 worth of cash deposits as well as paid for a BMW X6 for $50,500 in cash. based on court documents.

Gumbs was arraigned in NYC, Manhattan Criminal Court Wednesday and charged with grand larceny. He is being kept in jail and held on a $100,000 bail.

“He kept a fairly low profile, but the way he dressed was a little flashy,” a neighbor of his at the Trump Plaza in New Rochelle told The Wall Street Journal. “You could tell he wore fancy clothes but he himself was low key as a person.”

Gumbs supposedly worked as a receiving clerk at the hospital’s outpatient campus on East 53rd Street. The position offered him to manage control over ordering, receiving and stocking the printer ink cartridges.

He ordered $1.2 million worth of printer cartridges between October 2009 and August 2010 which were not compatible with any of the inkjet printers at his facility, the complaint stated. Gumbs ordered an overall total of approximately $3.8 million worth of ink cartridges while he was employed by Sloan-Kettering.

Gumbs allegedly asked the supply truck to meet him around the street rather than within the building and after that stashed the products inside the garbage bay area, based on the court papers.

A spokesperson for Sloan-Kettering said that Gumbs began doing work at the cancer center in 1999 but has since been terminated.

Printer ink and toner manufacturers like HP, Canon, and Xerox make a huge profit on the mark up of their products.  Leveraging the high price tag for printer consumable, scrupulous people have taken original manufacturers’ products that have been used already, remanufactured and refilled them, and resell them as new and original.  They collect or buy the used cartridges for pennies on the dollar and sell them at the original OEM prices making a huge profit.  Most of these types of counterfeit consumables have been distributed and produced in Mexico, South America or Asia.

At InkCloners.com, our manufacturers collect empty cartridges through legitimate means like the Ecycle Group.  We then thoroughly test, clean, refill and test print our cartridges to make sure you have a fully functional cloned product.  Our brand then gets packaged as a compatible or remanufactured printer cartridge.

If you detect that you have received counterfeit cartridges, call the manufacturer and report the issue.  They should launch an investigation into the matter.  Rest assured that when you buy from InkCloners.com, you are buying legitimate cloned products that meet or exceed the original manufacturers’ specifications.  While we do our best to package everything properly, occasionally there are bumps in the road we can’t avoid.  Fear not though, that our customer support team is available M-F 9am-5pm EST to resolve any issue that arises and we offer a full refund if you are totally not satisfied with our printer cartridges.

We’ve talked about tips on saving on the cost of ink a few times here on the InkCloners blog.  It is now all over the news and on the internet that changing the type of font will use less ink and thus extend the life of your printer cartridges, saving you money.

Did you know that printer ink costs about $10,000 per gallon?  “The amount of ink a font drains is mainly driven by the thickness of its lines.  A font with “narrow” or “light” in its name is usually better than its “bold” or “black” counterpart”, said Thom Brown, an ink researcher at Hewlett-Packard.  Also, serif fonts—those with short horizontal lines at the top and bottom of letters — tend to use thinner lines and thus less ink than a “sans serif” counterpart.

The most ink friendly fonts have been identified as Century Gothic and Times New Roman.  It has been shown that Century Gothic uses about 30 percent less ink than Arial.  My favorite font and what we use on our website is the Calibri font.  This font can be downloaded here.  Also look at our other money saving tips on ink cartridges.

Savings Chart- in order by amount of money saved are:

1. Century Gothic
2. Ecofont
3. Times New Roman
4. Calibri
5. Verdana
6. Arial
7. Sans Serif
8. Trebuchet
9. Tahoma
10. Franklin Gothic Medium