When I purchased my Brother Laser Printer HL-2170W, I was aware of the notorious premature “toner life end” problem. The printer has a sensor for the toner, it would stop printing when the toner is low. The problem is often times the printer stops working even when the toner is perfectly fine.
My printer stopped working when the page count is only about 650 pages. To get around this problem, there is a trick that you can do it by yourself. Here are the steps.
- Follow the printer’s instructions to take out the toner.
- There is a round hole to the right side of the toner. Use a strip of non-transparent tape to cover this hole. If you do not have non-transparent tape, you can tape a small piece of paper there instead.
- Insert the toner back to the printer.
thanx for the clue amida. I have a brother inkjet all-in-one that behaves the same, so google resulted in another blog that revealed that the “spine” of the cartidge is actually the window that a light beam shoots thru to indicate the level of ink. Just use a sharpie pen on all three sides and wala – the ink level is always full, until you know it’s time to change when the print quality suffers.
c230,
Thanks for the tip for the brother inkjet all-in-one. Sometimes, the manufacturer goes too far. Fortunately, we have these tips to get around the problems.
Thanks for the tip…works perfectly.
Amazing. Pure genius. Thanks for the tip!
Thansk for the tip, it works perfectly fine