...nter is still showing as offline, we have produced several guides for solving this common problem and the advice given will vary depending upon your operating system. Please select the relevant operating system for your PC from the list below: You will then be taken to a guide with information tailored to your operating system.Good luck! If you are looking for a guide for another operating system that is not featured here then, please get in touch...
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Guides relating to ink cartridges, toner cartridges and printers in general.
How to Make Your “Offline” Printer “Online” (Windows XP)
...e cable will almost certainly have the same USB A-B connections pictured below. Set Printer to “Online” Manually Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Printers & Faxes. Right-click the printer in question from the list and select “Use Printer Online”. Clear All Remaining Print Jobs Open the print queue by double-clicking the relevant printer. Right-click any print jobs present and select “Cancel” from the drop down menu. If any print jobs refuse to b...
How to Make Your “Offline” Printer “Online” (Windows Vista)
...ith your currently offline printer and PC/laptop. SNMP Settings (Networked Printers Only) Go to Start>Control Panel>Printers on your PC. Right-click on the relevant printer and select Ports tab, and select Configure Port. At the bottom you will see a check-box saying something like SNMP Status Enable. Un-tick that, and the printer should start showing as online again. Change Printer Status to “Online” Manually Click Start>Control Panel>Printers ag...
How to Make Your “Offline” Printer “Online” (Windows 7)
...variety of printers including those manufactured by Brother, Canon, Epson, Dell, HP, Kodak Lexmark and many others. Video Guide How can I make my offline printer show as online again? In this brief guide I will take you from the most simple solution for this problem to completely removing your printers driver and software. It may be tempting to skip the earlier steps and assume that all cables etc are still connected. It could however save you a l...
“CHANGE DRUM SOON” message after changing a Brother DR3000 Drum Unit
...g your Brother laser printer you will need both a toner cartridge and a DR3000 drum unit. Changing the toner cartridge in your printer is simple and your printer checks out key parts of the toner cartridge to determine how full or empty it is. It is however a very different story when it comes to replacing a DR3000 drum unit and your printer will need to be told a new drum has been installed so that it can reset a counter internally that estimates...
Drum LED still flashes after changing a Brother DR3000 Drum Unit
...dition to a toner cartridge your Brother laser printer also requires a DR3000 drum unit to print. When you change toners your printer can tell when a new one has been installed by checking key points of the cartridge. It is not possible however for your printer to do this with a DR3000 drum unit and your printer requires a prompt to reset its internal counter that estimates the life of a drum unit. If left un-reset the drum LED light will continue...
How to the Reset Purge Counter on a Brother Printer (With a Numerical Pad)
...e numerical keypad. Use the DOWN key to locate the purge counter. eg. PURGE0060025 Use the number pad to enter 2783 (this should zero the numbers after PURGE). Press STOP/EXIT to return to the first stage of maintenance mode. Press 9 and 9 to exit maintenance mode. Your purge counter is now reset and you can now resume printing as normal. If however this has not cleared the error message I advise going through this guide again following the instru...
How to the Reset Purge Counter on a Brother Printer (With a Touchscreen)
...not going onto paper this ink has to go somewhere… This place is the waste ink box or ink absorber which resides in the bottom of your printer and is essentially a large layer of sponge that is designed to soak up ink. As such this container has a finite life and will eventually become full. To estimate how full the waste ink tank is your printer keeps a track of how many pages have been printed and how many cleans have been performed. Once the pr...
How to Reset Purge Counter on a Brother Printer (Without Numerical Pad)
This guide should be used to clear instances of the error message ‘Machine Error 46: Unable to Clean’ that will be presented to Brother Printer users when the machine estimates that the waste ink sponge may have become full. Due to the specific steps necessary this method of resetting a purge counter is not applicable …
SSD, The New HDD
...de mainstream retail computing. This is mainly due to their high price and low capacity compared to conventional Hard Disk Drives (HDD). Fundamental Differences A current SSD with the fashionable “Aggressive” look. The most prevalent difference between the two technologies is the SSD has no moving parts unlike the current HDD’s. Instead of using a series of rotating platters read by an Actuator arm (kind of like an advanced version of...
