Recent content by Robin-Whittle

Short version: watch out for over-filling the toner carts. A full bottle may be too much. Hi Ian, Thanks for the information on the amount of toner in these carts. I think what you wrote about this printer not having a waste bin is incorrect. The HL-4040DN and similar have a special waste...

Hi RMM, You mention a TN360 cartridge, so the printer you are working with is not the same as mine. My experience is solely with the HL-5250DN. In Australia the toner carts for the HL-5350DN are called TN-3145 / TN-3185 (low/high yield) and in the USA, I understand, TN550/TN580. I am working...

Here's some further progress on my quest - Eternal Life for laser printers and their expensive components. I have found that after a few refills, the toner carts for the HL-5250DN start to "leak". There are dark random blotches on the page, typically along the right side. Toner builds up on...

About 600 pages later, mainly colour pages, I started getting more complaints from the printer about toner cart end of life. In various stages, I reset the flag gears of all the four carts and covered the clear hole at the left, near the flag gear, with aluminium tape. Previously I had used...

Summary: I was able to extend the life of the original toner cartridges in a Brother HL-4040CN without adding any toner - just by resetting the flag gear in the carts. The description below is what I did for the three colour carts. Presumably the same procedure would work for the black cart...

Please see the July 2010 thread "Cleaning drum of Brother HL-5250DN (surprising success)". http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=5449 - Robin

Further to my previous message on the general success I have had with the HL-5250DN, and with refilling the carts with bulk toner, here are my recent discoveries regarding the drum. This may apply to many other Brother laser printers, and printers made by Brother. Maybe it applies to other...

I have had good experiences with the toner from the Printer Ink Warehouse: http://www.ink-refills-ink.com/printer/Brother+HL-5250DN+Toner/5748/ As per their instructions, I found it is necessary to remove the original toner as much as possible before inserting the new toner. I did this by...