How To Reset Drum Error On Brother Printer?

Brother LaserJet printers are cost-effective printers, often used in offices that require more prints on a daily basis. These printers work on the toner cartridge and Drum. The toner cartridge contains the ink Powder. Meanwhile, A drum is an electrically charged roller, which take the ink power from the cartridge and through it on the paper during the printing process.

A print drum has a life, It can print almost 3 to 4 toner cartridges. After that, it will be electrically discharged. In that a case, you will be starting seeing drum error on the brother printer. To fix that error, you have to replace the drum with the new one. Which, you can easily buy from the nearest official store.

If you have already bought a new drum and installed it on the brother machine. However, your printer is still showing the replace drum error. It means, the printer is unable to identify the new drum. So you have to reset the drum to make it recReset drum error on brother printerorganizable. If you don’t know how to reset my printer after replacing the drum? Please follow the guide given below according to the printer model.

How to reset the drum on brother printer?

Brother LaserJet printers have four types of models – MFC, DCP, HL and Intralox. They all have the different way to reset the drum settings. If you don’t know how to do that, you can easily make it by making the changes into the printer settings.

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Reset the drum on brother MFC printer-

  1. Power on the brother MFC printer.
  2. Open the Front cover on the brother machine.
  3. Press the OK button for 4 seconds.
  4. Once you will see the drum unit, press the 1 button.
  5. Now you will see the accepted message.
  6. Close the front cover.

Now you won’t be seeing the replace drum error on the brother machine.

Reset the Drum error on the brother DCP Printer?

If you want to reset the drum on the brother DCP printer models. Here is the guide to do that, you can apply it on your devices.

  1. Power on the brother machine
  2. Open the brother cartridge cover.
  3. Replace the cartridge drum.
  4. Now press OK and + (button) on the printer.
  5. Once you see the reset drum message, press the Plus button again.
  6. Now you will see the accepted message. Close the front cover.

Print something now, your printer will print the documents properly without showing any error.

How to Clear the Drum error On brother HL Printers?

If you have replaced the Drum on the brother HL printer and it is still showing the drum error. you can Clear the drum error  by using the steps given below.

  1. Power on the brother printer.
  2. Open the front cover.
  3. Press the ok button for 3 seconds.
  4. Once you see the drum unit option on the display, press the ok button.
  5. Now press the Up-arrow button to reset the Drum unit.
  6. Once you will see the accepted message, you need to close the front cover on the printer.

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Shawn M. Vaillancourt

I am a computer engineer. Who is always passionate to right about gadget troubleshooting. I have more than 5+ years of experience in the tech industry.

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