In a modern home/office there are generally several PCs being used at any one point, but having several computers should not mean you have to have a printer attached to every single one. You could of course invest in a network enable printer or a wireless printer that you can all use, but this could end up being an expensive purchase. Besides if you already have a functioning printer wouldn’t it be easier for everyone to use that? Thankfully, it...

Unlike Brother’s toner cartridges a new DR2200 drum unit has no way to identify itself to a printer after installation. As a result a specific prompt must be given to your printer when changing the drum unit so that your printer does not continue to give the message “Replace Drum”. Entering this prompt resets an internal counter and clears the message until your printer believes the drum is reaching the end of its life. This reset can however be...

...he key consumables in all Brother laser printers. Whilst all Brother toner cartridges will identify their estimated toner levels to the printer, the drum units used requires the user to inform the printer when it is changed. If the correct prompt is not given when changing the drum unit it can result in the drum LED continuing to flash even with a new drum installed. Will this reset work for my printer? This method of resetting the drum counter ha...

...r laser printer is reset and the printer will continue for an estimated 25,000 pages. If however the prompt has been entered incorrectly (or not at all) the “Drum Near End” message will remain, but can be reset by following the relevant steps in this guide. Here at Refresh Cartridges we like to remind our customers that these warning are the result of your printer counting pages and calculating page coverage to estimate how much life is left in th...

...ll allow you to carry on printing without any warnings for an estimated 25,000 pages. When it comes to the Brother DR-3100 drum unit we always recommend continuing to use your current drum unit until the quality of your prints begins to diminish. At this point change your drum unit and reset the internal counter using the method described below. Does this reset work for my printer? Theis reset method has been confirmed for a handful of Brother pri...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...