How clean, reset and save money with a Brother DCP9020CDW printer.

Forking out money on printers and branded toner can be a real con.
When this printer first arrived, the toner only lasted 1 month. 1 set of these brother toner cartridges cost over 100 euro.
I quickly realized this printer was saying the toner was empty when it could not be.
But by resetting them, you can reuse the same cartridge up to 3 times before they are actually empty.
Plus, by using copy toner cartridges, the cost drops even more.
This printer would have been costing us 200 euro per month to feed with brother cartridges if we followed the printers instructions.
But now, from using copy cartridges and resetting them until they are empty, it only costs around 40 euro per month.
That's a massive saving. and this printer Has been ran like this for the past 6 or 7 years.
To add insult to injury, the brother cartridges also ask you to send back the old cartridge back, for it to be recycled. Yea, because its still full.
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[@Bigman74066]

This is actually a great printer. No fuzz with chips that tell you to change a part before it wears out.

[@jmadawg]

Have had the same printer now for about 10 years now. Bullet proof machines, Brother still make them well. About as reliable as a printer can be.

[@IrongodNZ]

My impact driver, drop saw, framing gun, jet ski, laptop, sauna, lawnmower, heater, TV, microwave and my Landcruiser are not running correctly... easy fix I'll just drop them off to Dean 😂 Seriously though the bro is a magician

[@keithmatthews1673]

That Brother looks like a great printer. Some modern printers are so tightly locked down that they prevent the use of third party consumables and resetting ink ot toner levels cant be done. Some makers even brick the printer when the waste collection is deemed to be at 'end of life'!

[@Whos_boots_are_those_shoes]

Try the cartridge people 👍 I've used them for a few years now save me a fortune

[@ZNCLinguistics-ne3wp]

The most cost efficient brother printers are the HL series black and white print-only duplex printers. No fancy functions and its printing speed is the fastest you can get for a desktop printer. Per page printing cost is the lowest of any printer. And it takes a lot of abuse, longest continuous printing run I put mine through was over 10,000 pages, stopping only to add paper and swap out toner cartridges. The printer itself is also dirt cheap. Printing speed slows down when the machine gets too hot, like any other printer, but those little HL series printers vent heat very well. you can also add toner to the cartridges themselves if you know what you're doing. a bottle of toner costs pennies. but it's a messy job, and IMO not worth the effort. tried it a few times, the clean-up was a nightmare.

[@1978JonBullock]

Cheers for the info dean.

[@foxconNI]

Thanks Dean for an other great video.

[@plunder1956]

I did have a Mono Brother Laser printer about 20 years ago and it was fine until it got flooded out. That did kill it.

[@MattOckendon]

Have this exact unit, this info is gold dust, Thanks!

[@absurdengineering]

Drums are light sensitive and it’s a bad idea to expose them to bright light. They will degrade when exposed to excessive light and will start smudging. The transfer belt does not like being touched. It is where the image from loose toner is being assembled. So the toner should not stick too much nor too little to the belt. It should be kept clean by not touching it. With anything. Definitely don’t clean it with wipes or anything like that. Only dry oil free compressed air or duster cans. Same goes for the drums. They can be spot cleaned if something sticks to them and causes artifacts on the page. But do it in a room with not much light. A blacked out room with a darkroom light would be best.

[@patrickbonner4841]

Good info.... most of us are here because we're fascinated with how things work.

[@Kazy_RU]

During my 4 years of service, (I'm older than I actually look in the pfp) I worked with 4 Konica Minolta Engineers. During our times of repairs we just placed cloths over the drums we removed, belts we left on a flat surface that had 3x A3 Pages underneath. What you are describing is an ideal situation but we do not live in an ideal world.

[@ZanderKaneUK]

DCP-1640W mono laser here, do more scanning to make a document into a pdf than I do printing, still on the 1st cartridge after a decade. Although its about to run out according to the warning messages. I have noticed recently that there seems the be diamond shaped blobs down one edge when it prints, so might have to blow it out with the compressor, thanks Dean. I do hope if and when I need my next Brother they remain like they have been. None of this scumbagery the likes of HP/Epson do.

[@xtender5]

Dean, your breadth of knowledge is amazing. If you have a free minute would you mind giving Elon Musk a hand figuring out why his rockets keep blowing up? 😁

[@nf5416]

make sure you use original cartridge for the length of the warranty , then use the clones , as manufactures on warranty jobs check toner / ink first and warranty is void if not original toner/ink even if it has nothing to do with the problem..

[@michaelfairchild]

Ive read "clean, reset and print money with a BRother SCP9020CDW printer".

[@generaldisarray]

7:53 not really how a colour laser printer works. The "carrier for the cartridge" is actually the OPC or organic photoconductor drum which creates the parts of the image for a given colour, so don't poke them with your fingers... The "conveyer belt" is actually the intermediate transfer belt where the image is built up from the colours in the toner cartridges. The belt then transfers the completed image to a sheet of paper. That's then passed through a heater that melts the toner onto the page. That's the short version, cos in a laser printer you have seven steps in this order, sending, cleaning, conditioning, exposing, developing, transferring, and fusing kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2aVnGmDlK9jaZosi=fWn1cdhDpVchUX1x

[@zaxmaxlax]

Printer ink, the most expensive liquid on earth.

[@watchmobiletvnow]

laser printer sure is cheap

[@nps5886]

Don't buy a hp postor printer like we have where I work the cartridge has drm inside it and throws up an error

[@robertking7584]

Dean, you clearly don't know much about laser/led printers. You have 4 components: Toner, Developer, Transfer belt, Fuser. Toner rolls out of the toner cartridge after the developer (drum) is exposed to light which is the image you're printing and this attracts the toner to the image on the drum surface, the paper passes between the developer (drum) and the transfer belt which has an opposite charge to attract the toner (image) from the developer(drum) to the paper. The colors are mixed between the 4 drums/cartridges on the paper and are then melted as the paper passes through the fuser which is a heated roller that basically presses the hot toner into the surface of the paper.

[@paulmcgeoch2603]

Google expert

[@zaxmaxlax]

🥱💤💤💤

[@1978JonBullock]

Bore off, He doesn't pretend to be an expert he's only telling you how to clean it and reset it.

[@patrickbonner4841]

🙄

[@user-cm8en9tz7t]

It would be best if you watched the whole video. Dean does give the correct names of the parts, and the machine is up and running as usual. Potentially saving everyone time and money. Awesome job for someone not trained in any way how to fix this gear. Well done as always, Dean.