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My Brother was giving a toner end of life message and refusing to print.

I took the toner end cap off via two screws and reset the gear toggle, and now it prints again.

Cool story.

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I’ve got 2 brother printers, never had a problem. I’ve used Epson, HP and both were an absolute shitshow to setup

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I got an HP because it was remote accessible, and had a scanner with a feed tray as well. It prints maybe 10 pages on a new cartridge. Costs 30 bucks for a new one. 3 dollars a page to print.

Bought a brother LaserPrinter that only prints B&W but at like 2000 pages. HP just does scanning now, nothing else

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There’s a menu setting to turn that off

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It would be fun if there was a menu setting called “turn shitshow off”.

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Yea, but nah. Went through all that no luck.

Resetting the gear toggle fixed it, though.

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I did it, but eventually it didn’t. So I gave in and replaced the toner.

I got nearly 3k prints from the starter cartridge, so not bad. My replacement should get like 25k. Given that I had the original for ~8 years, I don’t think I’ll ever need a B&W printer ever again.

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Same here. You need to reset the gear under the toner end cover.

Pop the end cover via two or three screws, then rotate the white gear back to 12 o’clock

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Ah ok mine is newer. I just run the cartridges dry after turning that option off.

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