• Pretzilla@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    My Brother was giving a toner end of life message and refusing to print.

    I took the toner end cap off via two screws and reset the gear toggle, and now it prints again.

    Cool story.

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      6 months ago

      I’ve got 2 brother printers, never had a problem. I’ve used Epson, HP and both were an absolute shitshow to setup

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        I got an HP because it was remote accessible, and had a scanner with a feed tray as well. It prints maybe 10 pages on a new cartridge. Costs 30 bucks for a new one. 3 dollars a page to print.

        Bought a brother LaserPrinter that only prints B&W but at like 2000 pages. HP just does scanning now, nothing else

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        I did it, but eventually it didn’t. So I gave in and replaced the toner.

        I got nearly 3k prints from the starter cartridge, so not bad. My replacement should get like 25k. Given that I had the original for ~8 years, I don’t think I’ll ever need a B&W printer ever again.

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          6 months ago

          Same here. You need to reset the gear under the toner end cover.

          Pop the end cover via two or three screws, then rotate the white gear back to 12 o’clock

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          6 months ago

          Ah ok mine is newer. I just run the cartridges dry after turning that option off.

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            6 months ago

            Probably. I had to enter a special code, which overrode the block on printing, and that worked for a few hundred prints. But then I couldn’t override it anymore.