Recent content by Geoffrey

G'day tigerwan, Finally resolved the issue. I installed new genuine Brother Blk and nothing changed, printer still reported Bk empty, colors near empty. At this point I spat the dummy and contacted Brother tech support. They agreed there was a problem, suggesting it was to do with a print head...

Well, I've tried all I can think of including your advice to uninstall driver etc. to no avail, but thanks, tigerwan, appreciate your effort to help. It seems that Brother may well have shut down third party cartridges, but included their own as well! Do you think it would be worth my while to...

Thanks for trying, tigerwan Have tried that. Also putting black tape over the tongue the photocell looks through. The printer seems to have "locked up". Even with no carts installed jt still says BK empty and Y, M and C near empty. It's like it needs a software reset. Perhaps it didn't like the...

Hi tigerwan Thanks for your reply. The LC-51 and LC-37 are the same size, but with small differences around the upper and lower edges where they slide into the holder, but seem to fit into the printer properly. The LC 51s have clear case sides and not the removable cases and internal ink bag...

This printer which uses LC 37 cartridges is causing much grief. First problem was that it ran out of ink after a few but infrequent prints. I now know after searching this forum that frequent head cleaning was the culprit. I then purchased a set of non genuine replacement cartridges, labelled as...