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Hi everyone. My Brother printer suddenly stopped working and looks bricked : no sign of life despite all the ways I tried powering it on. I think a fuse in the power pcb failed because of an excess of power draw: I found somewhere (cannot find where anymore, sadly) that the use of third-party ink cartridges could mess with the printer lubrication, which sounds quite relevant as I indeed heard some squicking noise in the printer while it was still working. Therefore, I would plan to regrease these mechanical parts before replacing the power pcb, to avoid another fuse failure. However, I cannot find any good recommendation on which grease to apply, since the "FLOIL" ones described in the service manual do not seem to be sold to the public (I live in EU). Do you have any recommendation on the grease? Or maybe another idea of the source of my problem, if anyone encountered it before?

Minimum Requirements:

• Printer Model: Brother MFC-J4620DW
• Wifi
• Firmware Version: Do not know, probably last version (this is an old model, I do not think it has been updated in a while)
• 3rd party cartridges

Any other details:

• Power reset : already tried, with and without the paper tray, left it hours unplugged. No sign of life at all (neither LEDs, nor screen).
• Note that I know I have a faulty supercapacitor, as I had to perform the power reset procedure before (hence it stayed on all the time to avoid me doing it all over again and again... maybe it was not really a good idea). I think it is not my issue here.

Thanks by advance!

Prints are coming very faded. I ordered a black cartridge even though it says levels are all fine. Don’t know what to do, I need to use it very soon and i’m frustrated about it. Attaching pictures. Let me know what I can do.

Test print page comes out fine sometimes and little faded other times. But everytime I print something, it comes even more faded. Maybe issues will be fixed with the new black cartridge but I have no idea what to do if it doesn’t fix it. I got this printer for free and they said it was having no problems, but I don’t know when they last used it. Help me out, i’m exhausted.

Last print, two papers jammed and I had to pull it out the back. It printed the ink on the black cartridge’s blue roller and I had to wipe it off using a tissue. Don’t know what’s up with this printer

I have bought two of these printers and both stopped working after about two years. Won’t connect with WiFi to print. I can select the printer and hit print and then both happens. I downloaded the Epson Smart Panel and that barely loads. I can print from a laptop with the cord but the applications I’m printing from aren’t available on the laptop I have. I’ve tried resetting the printer. I’ve tried different devices. Any other ideas before they just go in the bin? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Hello there! I've recently pulled my Pro100 out of retirement, and I've been shocked with the variety of tasks that it can do, which is perfect because it's now the primary printer of my Hackerspace, but I had people in my group asking to print to CDs, and since this thing has been packed away for so long, the ABS CD Caddy has long ago gone missing. I do have access to 3D printers, so I think I will just try and print my own, but I'm missing solid measurements to work off, and I'm not too confident in my attempts to eyeball it from pics online...

So! if you've got one of these laying around, it would help me a LOT if you could throw it up to a measuring tape to get the Length, Width, and Height. TY for hearing me out!! :33

We bought the Brother DCP-L2640DW printer in March. Recently, when we send a document to print, it waits 2-5 minutes before it starts printing. We've powered it on/off, checked that it wasn't in sleep mode when we sent the print job. Does anyone know what the issue may be?

Buenos días, me gustaría saber cómo debo configurar el equipo para poder escanear varios lotes de trabajos desde el alimentador de documentos en un solo PDF.
Gracias.

Hey guys, can you help me choose between PIXMA G620 vs Epson EcoTank ET-8550 fro a sticker business. Thank you!

I’m trying to buy a new home printer after my XP445 broke, what is optimal for me? Second hand is fine aswell tbf

I'm currently trying to choose between HP Designjet T850 and T950. The T950 has everything i want, but I'm worried that the small basket will create folds when I print 2 meter long drawings.

Anyone got any experience with how the printer handle long printing formats? The t850 looks to have a more regular basket which I'm used to.

Any replies would be much appreciated as I can't seem to find any info about this.

Ciao a tutti,
Ho bisogno di un consiglio per quanto riguarda questa accoppiata stampante/cartucce.
Come potete vedere dalle foto allegate:
1. Ho delle cartucce HP (modelli 923/924/925) che riportano esplicitamente l'etichetta "Instant Ink"
2. Ho una stampante HP OfficeJet Pro 8122e
La mia domanda è: è possibile utilizzare fisicamente queste cartucce Instant Ink senza avere un abbonamento mensile attivo?

OKI MC362. Fuser unit is not heating on power on. Error 173 on printer which is apparently due to the fuser heater not functioning. Checked pin resistances on fuser as advised in the maintenance manual and can't find any incorrect values but apparently that doesn't rule out this issue. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZwGmqjFlHg&t=15)

It seems impossible to replace just the fuser heater itself for these printers (doesn't seem to be anything on ebay) and that the only option is to buy a new one .

It would be a shame to throw it out and additionally the new ones are not exactly cheap, especially since I've hardly used it at all.

So is there any chance at all of repairing it. Thanks

Hi! Looking for printer recommendations, open to both inkjet or laser.

Yet again I am in the market for a printer. I am so tired of buying a new one every few years. Any recommendations for a black & white (no color) printer that will last a bit longer? The deciding factor these days seems to be how much the black ink cartridge is when it is time to replace the ink.

My last printer was a Canon, I have watched the replacement cartridge price climb to over $100 now for ONE ink cartridge. Is this just the norm now?

I really do not want a “smart” anything. I don’t care if it is Bluetooth, honestly I would pay extra for the ability to just print via a cord instead of constantly trying to pair Bluetooth. I don’t need it to connect to the internet or toast bread (lol), all I need is to print a lot of boring black and white paperwork items! Any recommendations are appreciated

Hi all, recently I noted that my Canon printer started having troubles printing yellow. The only way to print it decently is to set printing quality to hight. I use compatible cartidges and I used the same brand since the first time. I also updated the fw to the latest version and, of course, tried with another cartidge. Removed the head, cleaned it with isopropyl on contacts too not showed any improvement. Since heads costs like a new printer do anyone have any suggestions before buying a new printer?

Thanks.

I have the XP-450B label printer and have used it for about 7 years with my Mac no issues. I just updated my Mac OS and the printer now says this software is not compatible!

The website that supplies the driver also seems to have disappeared?

Anyone know if there is a new driver and where to get it from?

I have Toshiba e-studio 305CS that is connected to the internet by LAN. However, I found a USB port on its back with WiFi signal on it. I want to know what USB WiFi adapter would work on it and how to configure it.

Thanks

Hi everyone, I'm having a frustrating issue with an HP DeskJet Ink Advantage 2975 (2900 series), and I'm hoping someone here might know how to fix it.

The printer was working fine, but I decided to try HP's official firmware updater (version 6.29.7.0). Unfortunately, the update failed, and now the printer is permanently stuck displaying E9.

I've tried restarting it, attempting a factory reset using the button combinations I could find, and running the official HP firmware updater again over USB. Nothing has worked so far. The updater either freezes during the process or displays an "internal error" saying that the printer cannot complete the request.

What's interesting is that Windows still recognizes the printer over USB, but not as a normal printer anymore. It appears as hp_fwupdate, with USB ID 03F0:FF53.

I've done some additional troubleshooting, and Windows detects four USB interfaces, including two WinUSB interfaces. USBView can read the device's descriptors successfully, so the printer is still responding to basic USB requests.

I also examined the official HP firmware updater and found references to recovery mode and firmware update functions, which suggests that the software is designed to handle printers in this state. However, the recovery process doesn't seem to work with mine.

At this point, I'm not sure whether the firmware is corrupted, the printer is stuck in recovery mode, or the HP updater is failing for another reason.

Has anyone experienced something similar with an HP DeskJet 2900-series printer? Is there a way to recover it from E9 without specialized equipment?

I'd really appreciate any advice. I can provide USB diagnostics, logs, or additional information if needed.

Thanks in advance.

Please help me to solve this problem whenever i print long size paper documents the bottom part of the documents are cut or did not get printed on the final output, and whenever i print pictures some sides are getting cut, how do i fix them?

Ps. English is not my first language so sorry for my grammar 😣

Looking for a quick and easy (but decent quality) printer to print out photos for our customers- Santa is stopping by our small business store and we would like to give our customer’s a free printed photo to take home. I was hoping to give out 5x7 photos BUT I can’t seem to find one that prints that size. I may need to order a 4x6 photo printer- so wondering what anyone thinks would be good! Planning on printing 50-100 photos during our event, so something that won’t poop out on us and can get the job done. *We will be using my daughter’s Canon mirrorless camera- R100.

I have a Brother HL-3270CDW laser printer and despite buying OEM "high capacity" toner cartridges and not printing a lot (maybe 200-300 pages/month) it seems like I go through a lot of cartridges. Both black and color. I had an old Brother HL-5250DN which seemed like it didn't use nearly as much toner.

Is this just shrinkflation, with less toner in the cartridge???

After an insightful response to my purchasing recs post, I am considering the Canon MF665Cdw. Rtings did an in-depth review and has troubling ( to me) data on the quality difference between output from a flatbed scan versus output from the single-pass duplex adf.

If you have that printer, have you found a fix for this?

Hi Everyone!

I've bought a HP LASER 303DW 4 days ago and I've been having trouble connecting it to my internet wifi and cable..basically lot of connectivity issues..and when i try to use direct wifi it does connect but has some printing issue instruction that fails (like printing one page on one sheet instead of duplex).

If someone can assist me to set it up properly with guided step by step with button instructions(including a full printer network reset as well) and any links for applications/drivers needed to be downloaded.

I've tried their support.hp.com directed various applications like HP app , HP smart app , hp laser 300 series driver installer and no luck..it keeps failing recognizing the printer itself or if it connects its very slow and those prints attempt usually give a disconnected from host or error decoding (error 11-1114 and 11-1112).

Please help and free me from this misery i just want to use my printer 😭😭😭😭

PS: the wifi 5g and 2.4ghz r both separated with different name and passwords. Ive also logged into the EWS (printer's web application) and tried setting the general wifi from there and no luck...I've also looked up on videos for this on yt/their website and its clubbed under 300/3000 series and has different button instructions (4 buttons instead of 3 buttons)