See if the toner light disappears, if it does, print a test page and you’re done.ĩ. Your computer should now recognize your Brother printer just like in the past.Ĩ. Unplug your printer, turn it off, turn on and connect to the computer.ħ. Your computer will fail and will not find the appropriate drivers.Ħ.
#Drum for brother hl 2140 printer drivers
If done correctly, when you plug your printer to your computer it should try to reinstall the drivers under Brother Maintenance Mode. Release, pause and press again five times.ĥ. Release the white button and press it again twice.Ĥ. The toner, drum and error lights should remain lit.ģ. Press and hold the white button, while turning on the printer. To do that, turn off your printer and open the front access panel.Ģ. Due to the fact that my cartridge was a starter cartridge, and there weren’t any gears that I needed adjust, I needed to reset the page counter in my printer.ġ. If sucessful, the toner should yield another hundred pages or so.įor some reason my printer still did not work following the previous step and my toner light was steadily lit. One disclaimer, this hack is printer specific, is appropriate for starter toner and may not work on all Brother printers, but it’s worth a try. This hack is a simple hack that anyone one can do with any specific tools. At the end of just say 1000 or 1500 prints depending on your cartridge rating, the printer will refuse to print regardless of the toner capacity. This often works through a mechanical device that tracks the number of prints. Thankful to my stubbornness, I’ve research and figured out a reliable hack forcing my printer to print although my toner was allegedly empty.Īccording to my research, a lot of printer companies are scamming their consumers into buying new and expensive toner cartridges although there is little to no evidence of low toner. All of this could have been easily avoid if I didn’t procrastinate, but as a student, this is all not possible. One of the most frustrating issues for a college student is receiving a toner error after printing 18 of the 20 pages of your final paper due the next day.
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