Consumer ratings: Brother TN-115BK

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Category: Office Product
Brand: Brother
Model: TN-115BK
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Brother TN-115BK Consumer Report

Brother TN-115BK Review by Santiago Montana (Colorado)

These toners are easy to install. One thing though, after the first warning of these toners being low I take them out and check the little round window to see if there is still toner. If there is, I wind back the gear with a peg on it back to its original position. I recently did this with all three colors as it was reported they were going low. After winding back the gears, the printer performed perfectly for another month with a moderate amount of color printing. Finally, the low toner warnings went off again and since there appeared no more toner, I installed new ones. I have a closet full of these consumables and look forward to many great years printing with these printers. (We have 6 of them)

*EDIT 12/20/10*
We've 3 more of the 9840cdw printers now. Here is something important you should know along with the above information:

Hidden Menus for Brother 9840cdw-

**Toner Reset Menu - Open front door of printer. Press the 'clear' button once or twice. There are two capacities for each color. It will start counting down from whichever you choose.

**Everything Else Reset Menu - Press '3' and '9' at the same time. Hidden reset menu will appear. Select item, select reset.

Brother TN-115BK Review by John J. Stegemoller "john777cal" (Houston TX)

I used to purchase toner cartridges for my Brother 4070CDW color laser at Office Depot. For just a few dollars more, I can purchase this High Capacity cartridge.
I have had my Brother 4070CDW for almost 3 years, and I really love it. I have almost 10,000 pages through it with no major problems. I use only Brother original cartridges. In the past, I had 2 cartridges fail to give me the amount of pages it should have. I called Brother customer service, they had me push a series of buttons on the panel which gave a much more, in depth report as to the use of the printer and the individual cartridges. Did you know that there is a maintenance function which will tell you how many pages you got from your current cartridges AND the last used cartridge, plus the average page cover percentage of each color. How many jams have you had? This report will tell you. Now, whenever I change a cartridge of any color, I always run this report to make sure I got the amount of pages out of the cartridge that was advertised. (Do you know about the trick of covering up the plastic eye of the cartridge with a piece of black electrical tape? You can get about 200 - 500 more pages out of the cartridge even though ti says your cartridge is empty.) Google something like "Cover Brother Cartridge with tape" You will get several hits and You Tubes on how to stretch a few more pages out of your cartridge.
Anyway, I have loved this printer, and I print a lot of desktop layout, color photo projects with it. The original Brother cartridges work well and the quality is consistent.

Brother TN-115BK Review by Jason T. Mccurdy "senseoflife" (Heathrow, FL)

When the toner life end message comes up, there are 2 things that need to be done to keep printing. The windows on each side of the cartridge need to be blocked (with electric tape or something similar). And the flag gear on the cartridge needs to be reset. Here is how to do that:
1. Orient cartridge so that you are looking at the end of the cartridge with the 2 phillips head screws, one at the top right, one at the bottom left. You should also see part of the gray flag gear through an opening in the end cap.
2. Remove screws and the end cap they were holding in place (one or 2 gears may fall out when you do this, but they should be simple to pop back into place).
3. Note attachment point of the spring over flag gear, then temporarily remove it so you can reset the gear.
4. Remove the flag gear and reinstall it so that its teeth are just beginning to mesh with the adjoining gear.
5. Reinstall the spring.
6. Reinstall the end cap.
You can also reset the cartridge from the printer. But this will only temporarily override the toner end of life message and allow you to print a few more pages. Here are the instructions for that:
1. With power on, open the toner access main door (You will get a "door open" message in the LCD.)
2. Hit the "Clear/Back" button and you go right to the "Toner Reset Menu"
3. Using the up & down "Search" arrow buttons, you can then scroll through reset options for each of the printer's [4] toner cartridges.
Code: B-TNR-H = black, C-TNR-H = cyan; M-TNR-H = magenta and Y-TNR-H = yellow. The H is for high yield.
4. Highlight the toner you want to reset and hit the OK button.
5. Hit the "Clear/Back" button to get out of the menu, close door.