Compatible Toner

Now I won’t have too much of a go at Brother, they’re not nearly as bad as some of the other printer companies.  But if you’ve never used one of these printers let me tell you about a stupid little device that brother have fitted on all the toner cartridges for the Brother HL4070CDW and a few other printers.

Many of the brother printers or rather cartridges count the number of pages that they are supposed to print and then stop working.  So how ridiculous is that, in many cases you’ll see that the cartridge still has toner still left inside it, in some instances this can quite a considerable amount.

Brother HL4070CDW Toner

So how stupid is that ?

It’s a device that tells you when you have run out of toner, even if you haven’t and then stops your printer working.  Lets look at this from an environmental side, this little device has been designed and produced for the sole purpose of telling you to replace your cartridge.

Of course there is another way of seeing when your printer is running out of toner, by looking at the page.  It doesn’t really take Sherlock Holmes to figure out when you need more ink.

Now you can reset  these cartridges, on the side you should find a little flag gear which you can rotate and reset this stupid invention.  At the time of writing this wasn’t on the starter cartridge you get with the machine, presumably so that you’ll get fleeced on your very first print run.

How much toner does this waste?   How many cartridges will get thrown away because of this device stopping them using a toner cartridge for no reason?

Or perhaps we should ask – how many more TN-115BK cartridges will Brother sell, how much more profit will they make to justify this completely unnecessary device?  It’s like your fuel warning light coming on in your car and the car becoming unusable instantly!

This is how most of these companies make money, by getting you to buy as many of their consumables as possible, forget about the cost of the printer this is how they make their money.  Environmentally it is becoming increasingly unacceptable to do this !

By the way when  you have learnt the little trick to reset the page count device, these toner cartridges are actually very easy to refill – you can find all you need here – TonerTopup