Brother Toner Running Out...........Again

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I mentioned to my son that I was surprised how quickly the printer ran out of toner at the store, and he found the same thing with his printer.

Anyone else ticked at Brother?

And, are ink jets cheaper for store use? Photocopying, b&w printing?
 
I use a hp laser jet black and white printer for invoicing andframe/mount reports, thousands of pages per month, I go through 1 cartridge every six months and that is a compatible off ebay for £10 it makes my every day printing inconsequential, that is the biggest word I have used in a while, gotta be bed time.
 
Just checked. New cartridge in November, with light printing. Going to switch to either HP, or an inkjet.
 
Hp1102w is what I use the only criticism I have is it only holds about 100 sheets at a time, I use A5 sheets, that's about half a normal size page for you yanks, I get through 100 A5 pages about every three days.

The print speed is very fast far quicker than a ink jet could hope to archive, it is Almoast instant.
 
I've never had problems with any Brother laser printer cartridge life. Brother is our 'go to' printer brand. Most of our printing doesn't require high resolution or high quality so I usually set the defaults to lowest dpi and enable toner saver modes. 6-12 months per toner cartridge.
 
Some page counts and types of printing (graphics, simple text, etc) would put it in perspective. I have a elCheapo Brother (the one that's on sale occasionally for $50-60 - where the cost of the printer is sometimes cheaper than the cost of a toner cartridge) Its a dedicated printer for printing shipping labels; printing several a day. No pages count, but the cartridges last a long time; don't remember the last time I changed it.

OTOH I have an Epson Ink Jet for my other shop needs. It sucks up ink cartridges like crazy. For the same type of mostly text printing, I think the Laser will always be cheaper than the Ink Jet. But Whadda I know?
 
Rick Bergeron - CPF said:
I've never had problems with any Brother laser printer cartridge life. Brother is our 'go to' printer brand. Most of our printing doesn't require high resolution or high quality so I usually set the defaults to lowest dpi and enable toner saver modes. 6-12 months per toner cartridge.
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I was just going to say the same thing. :) I prefer the cheap brother laser printers, which go about 6-10 months per toner - with daily POS use. You cant kill these printers! They don't jam like most of the HP models, and most of them have big toner carts. (you can pick small or large replacements, but the larger ones arent much more) It also depends which model you have. They make some printers that are tiny and have smaller cart capacity. Most of ours use the TN-350 high capacity carts. Ours are set to the default dpi quality.

Then again, I have 3 medium/higher end HP enterprise models at (primary) work that I love. The cost per page is about a penny, and the cartridges are huge. The printers are HP M602N models($999 each), and the cartridges are CE390($299 each, for 24,000 pages) (or $526 for 2pk = 48,000 pages) They each go 52PPM, and we added second trays to them. When we do projects and large mail merges, I run these 3 printers non stop for 8 hours at a time. I've never had a jam or problem.

Most consumer grade printers have a yield of about 4000-8000 pages, per cart.
 
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I have an HP business class printer that gets about 6,000 pages per toner cartridge but is well over $500 for the printer and $125 for toner.

Brother MFC which is about $150 during sales that gets thousands of pages out of a $70 cartridge.

Samsung printer that they run regular sales on for about $50 and gets a couple thousand pages for $60 cartridge.


Keep in mind that the cartridge that comes with these are starter cartridges on lower priced printers so you only get about 1/4 the toner of a full cartridge. I haven't bothered to change the resolution to extend the life of the cartridges on any of them.
 
I use an ancient HP laserjet 1200 in my front room. I've had it for probably 10-15 years. If I have ever needed a new toner cartridge I can't remember it. It's like a perpetual motion machine. I have the same model at home too.
:cool: Rick
 
It just occurred to me that there are two kinds of cheap Brothers: the kind that use the gigantic, expensive cartridges that don't last, and the kind that use the small, cylindrical ones that do. I was dumb enough to buy the former.
 
One of my genius staff found a hack, googling "Brother toner hack" dcp2540, and we got it to restart using the same worn-out cartridge. The hack guy says it will run double the time now.

Yay.
 
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