
Use of non-Brother supplies may affect the hardware performance, print quality, and reliability of the machine. Each individual component is designed to work together to ensure quality and reliability. Each Brother laser printer is designed to operate at preset temperatures that exactly match each of our toner formulas. If you reset the drum counter during the life of the drum unit being used, the remaining drum life is not displayed correctly.Ĥ- Press the up arrow key or 1 to reset the battery counter.īrother strongly recommends that customers use only original drum units and / or Brother toner cartridges. Reset the drum counter only when you replace the drum unit. Check that you are replacing only the drum unit and not the toner cartridge. The Brother machine has separate consumables for the toner cartridge and the drum unit.

Note: The illustrations below are from a representative product and may differ from your Brother machine. To clear these error messages, you must reset the detoner counter as shown below.įollow the steps below to reset the toner counter. The following error messages continue to appear if the drum counter has not been reset when you replace the drum unit with a new one. I always receive the error message "Replace Drum", or "Drum End Soon" after replacing the drum unit with a new one. When you replace the drum unit with a new one, you must reset the drum counter by following these steps:ģ- Press the up arrow key or 1 to reset the battery counter. If this is not the case, the printed pages may have a vertical band.ġ0- Put the toner cartridge and the drum unit back into the machine.ġ1- Close the front cover of the machine. The arrow on the tab should be aligned with the arrow on the drum unit.


Replacing the drum unit, Reset the drum counterģ- Remove the toner cartridge and the drum unit from the machine.Ĥ- Push the green lock lever down and remove the toner cartridge from the drum unit.Ħ- Put the toner cartridge firmly into the new drum unit until you hear it lock into place.ħ- Make sure that you correctly put the toner cartridge in place, otherwise it may separate from the drum unit.Ĩ- Clean the corona wire inside the drum unit by gently sliding the green tab from left to right and from right to left several times.ĩ- Make sure to bring the tab back to the Home position. Replace the drum by following the steps below: If you want to know their difference, see "What is the difference between the toner cartridge and the drum unit?" UNIVERSAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE RESETTING OF BROTHER DRUM UNITS
