[REQUEST] Cost of Drum Nearly Same as Printer

[Appletax]

Bought a Brother HLL2395DW printer in January. The drum is almost done (printed nearly 10,000 pages). I had the previous version before it and tried a ~$25 refurbished drum from LD Products and it was crap. The cost of a brand new OEM drum is nearly $100 - I paid $100 for this printer. Why do it be dat way? Thoughts on what to do?

Edit: purchase a brand new, open box genuine OEM drum for ~$24 on eBay

 

[Larry Sabo]

I have a Brother HL-L2390DW and bought a replacement toner cartridge for $30 CAD from New Ink Toner on eBay. It's been perfect. Not a drum, but perhaps they also sell the drum for your model.

 

[Appletax]

I have a Brother HL-L2390DW and bought a replacement toner cartridge for $30 CAD from New Ink Toner on eBay. It's been perfect. Not a drum, but perhaps they also sell the drum for your model.

I should try another refurbished drum?

 

[Larry Sabo]

I should try another refurbished drum?

I don't know. Depends on their price vs OEM from Bother. My point was, the 3rd-party toner cartridge was excellent value and results have been excellent -- indistinguishable from the original quality. I have no idea how many pages I have printed lifetime-to-date, but I'm still on the original drum. I assume their drums are rated for just 10,000 pages? How many times have you replaced just the toner cartridge?

 

[trevm999]

I should try another refurbished drum?

Sometimes you get a bad drum, just get another one, I used to get the 'premium' version from my supplier that was a couple bucks more, but a better a guarantee

 

[Appletax]

There's a guy on eBay selling an OEM drum for $20 and it has 90% life left. Think I will go that route instead.

 

[mikeroq]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Br...sh=item3b3036822f:g:aFcAAOSwL89cwwjp&LH_BIN=1

 

[Appletax]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-Brother-Drum-Unit-DR730-to-HL-L2370DW-HL-L2390DW-HL-L2395DW-MFC-L2710/254211949103?hash=item3b3036822f:g:aFcAAOSwL89cwwjp&LH_BIN=1

Purchase. Thanks

 

[Your PCMD]

Why do it be dat way?

All printer company's do it like that. The money is not in the printer itself, but the parts and defiantly the ink cartridges and toner. That being said, I have 2 Brother HL-L6200DW - one at home and one in the shop. These things are tanks. When I bought them, they were on sale for just $99. You were only able to get one per account, but the wife has an account so, there's that.

I purchased 6 toners for just $60 from LD Products and they have been flawless.

Personally, I love and recommend Brother over any other printer, no matter if its an ink jet or laser. I have many clients using Brother after ditching HP and have had no issues since switching.

 

[Markverhyden]

This is what I learned years ago, before the Internet, as the Gillette model of doing business. "Give away" the razor blade handles so they buy the blades.

The problem is the printer industry has devolved to disposable. Personally I'd never buy one of those printers. Got a call from a customer who bought a $50 HP AIO. Their spending plenty on the ink cartridges.

 

[Sky-Knight]

You bought a Brother! Now, you understand why I don't!

HP Lasers don't do that... but as listed above some HP inkjets certainly will!

Though honestly, if you pay attention to the duty cycles you should be able to get a decent printer from anyone. I just prefer HP's drivers, don't have issues with RDP servers and junk with them.

 

[Big Jim]

You bought a Brother! Now, you understand why I don't!

HP Lasers don't do that... but as listed above some HP inkjets certainly will!

Though honestly, if you pay attention to the duty cycles you should be able to get a decent printer from anyone. I just prefer HP's drivers, don't have issues with RDP servers and junk with them.

The brand of the printer does not mean much to be fair, HP do some pretty craptastic stuff at the low end, but equally they also do some excellent stuff on the high end.

In my previous job (not IT related) the HP Printer in the office got replaced at 10 years old.
The £300/400 Kyocera printer lasted around 18mo/2 years printing on average 10,000 pages a day (mental I know don't ask)

I have a Lexmark printer in my business and it was cheaper to buy a replacement than to buy new toner so thats what I did.
about 3 or 4 times until it was discontinued, but I kept one of the printers for spares, and 2 years later something went wrong with it (not printing properly) took parts from the spare and then threw it away. happy days.

Although Lexmark have gotten wise to this, as the printer I ended up replacing the above model with has toner carts that are coded to that machine, so when we did the same trick the replacement toner carts refused to work in our current printer so I had to swap the printer out. I just hope that the other components will work if I have to swap those out at some point.

 

[Diggs]

I've always had great results with LD Products and they stand behind their stuff. The one time I got lousy cartridges from them they replaced them with 2nd day service. Never tried their laser drums but they back what they sell.

 

[coffee]

Bought a Brother HLL2395DW printer in January. The drum is almost done (printed nearly 10,000 pages).

Your printing 1000 pages a month on a retail 100.00 walmart Brother printer ?

Throw it away. Go out and buy a higher end printer. When you get into the better printers you can just buy the rebuild kits for the fusers and do it yourself.

Just had a residential client that I sold them a Brother MFC printer (3 years ago) and the fuser pressure roller melted. The MFC fusers run about 179.00. So, Put a new one in it and took the old fuser to the shop. Rebuild kits run about 50/60 bucks. Ill rebuild it. Keep it for next time.