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 Extend Toner Life (i.e, avoid getting ripped off) January 26, 2008
Drew M. Loewe (Fort Worth TX)
31 out of 31 found this review helpful
The cartridge that this drum holds will refuse to let you print after a certain time, alleging that the toner life is ended.
This will fly in the face of the evidence of crisp pages, with evidently a decent amount of toner left. This is not like the old days, where the pages continue to print, and the print quality degrades as toner dissipates. Nope, this is a "We'll decide for you when you go get another cartridge" move by the manufacturer.
Countermeasures against this ploy:
1. Shake cartridge, replace
2. After a while, #1 won't work. Then, open cover, Options, *00, close cover
2. After a while, #2 won't work. Then, get a black Sharpie and cover the laser window on the non-gear side of the cartridge.
Should get you closer to getting your money's worth.
 Buy HL-2040 printer (with new drum) for less money October 19, 2007
C. MACPHAIL (Solana Beach, CA USA)
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
The brother HL-2040 printer often goes on sale for 65 to 70 bucks. Just throw away the printer but use the DR-350 drum and the starter toner cartridge ($25 worth of toner).
This trick, plus the tape-over-hole trick for extending toner cartridge life, reduces your consumables cost by 40%. Well under 2 cents per page...better than any other laser printer I know of.
 a business trickery September 15, 2007
H. Li (Santa Monica, CA)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
Brother printers may be cheap, but the drum units for them are not. This is a classic business trickery. They tease you with a cheap first buy. Then you have no choice but to continue buy the expensive parts. Furthermore, the quality of the drum is not good either. The company says that one drum unit can be used for 12,000 pages assuming 5% coverage. This is not true. The drum unit replaced with the original one in my printer had problems far before printing that number of pages based on 5% coverage.
Don't make mistake I did February 4, 2007
Scott Cheskiewicz
10 out of 20 found this review helpful
Don't make the mistake I did. While the Amazon description is fairly accurate, the description of this drum unit on other sites led me to believe it was a high capacity toner replacement. It is NOT. It is simply the unit in which your toner cartridge sits. It is not a toner cartridge.
Rip-off drum July 2, 2007
E. Goldberg (Seattle, WA)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
For $5-$10 more than the cost of this drum, you can buy a brand new Brother HL-2070n printer, which includes not only this drum, but also:
1. a new 2,000 page toner cartridge (although you have to follow instructions freely available on the Internet to keep the toner cartridge from shutting down after 1,000 pages.)
2. a spare printer for free.
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