Thursday, December 17, 2009

Anyone Have Problems with Toner for Brother Fax/Copier/Printers?

We bought this Brother Fax/Copier that takes a TN-350 toner cartridge. The problem was that it ran out very quickly, giving nowhere the 2500 copies that it says in the manual.





I looked on the net and found that inside the printer there is an ';eye'; on each side of the cartridge and a corresponding one in each side of the machine itself. If you get some black tape or some of those round sticky spots and cover both eyes in the printer it no longer gives the toner low message.





There is another problem though, on the left side of the toner cartridge there is a gear with an arm on it that turns as it's used. Once the arm turns all the way anti clockwise the printer says replace cartridge no matter how much toner is left.





To get around this I wound tape around the lug near the lever and the printer thinks the lever is not all the way home.Anyone Have Problems with Toner for Brother Fax/Copier/Printers?
The yield on a genuine Brother TN350 toner is up to approx. 2,500 pages*


The yield on a genuine Brother starter toner (it comes with the machine)is up to approx. 1,500 pages*


* When printing letter or A4 size paper at 5% print coverage


Much more toner will be used than normal when making copies or prints with graphics such as web pages.





Note: Toner life expectancy will vary depending upon the type of your average print job eg, graphics, text, web pages, resolution, contrast etc. Also, you should wait to unpack a new toner cartridge until immediately before you install it in the machine. If a toner cartridge is left unpacked for a long period of time, the toner life is shortened.

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