The Black Tape Trick To Bypass Low Toner Level On Brother Printers

Printer consumables particularly ink and toner cartridges are typically expensive, hence if there's any possible way to at least stretch their useful life, more likely, a lot of users would be glad to know it. On HP printers, one simple way to bypass the chip sensor from the cartridges is by disabling the device's ink/toner monitoring system. While for Brother printers, the sensors are embedded on both the machine and the cartridge. It's actually a pair, the sensor from the printer reads the other sensor from the cartridge, thus we can say that there's a communication that may exist between these two. As a printer user, we can take advantage of this knowledge and use it on our favor.

Once the installed cartridge reaches a certain level of remaining ink, it triggers the other sensor from the printer and eventually a low toner warning will then be prompted to the user. However, even if it prompts you with low toner level, the sensor's reading is not as accurate as it may seems, and in fact there's a lot more of toner inside the cartridge that you may consume to produce more prints. But we can't just remove the sensors, one main reason is that by doing such thing, it will certainly void the warranty of your machine or it's possible that the printer may failed to work properly.

Instead of getting your hands dirty, here's a very simple way to bypass the sensor from your Brother toner cartridges and printer as well. Technical skills is not essentially required, but at least you should be familiar with the parts and components of the machine that you'll be tinkering. First you have to prepare a short strip of black electrical tape, the cartridges and of course the printer. Make sure that the machine is already turn OFF, if not, unplug it from the outlet and let it rest for a bit to discharge electrostatic charges.

Now to start, you must take note that the sensor has a diameter of about 3/8-inch and commonly installed from either side of the cartridge. Here's a simple way to determine which side of the cartridge is its left or right, notice the side with visible gears, generally that's the left side, thus the other one is the right. If you're not sure how the sensor looks like, position the cartridge to its slot like you're about to re-install it, then try to notice the sensor hole from the printer. The two sensors should match especially with color printers, there should be four holes for each CMYK cartridges.

Here's the tricky part, cut a piece of black electrical tape enough to cover the sensor hole found in the printer, then do the same to the sensor from the cartridges. This trick works effectively with both sensors being covered, whilst it will also work if you can only tape either sensors. If you need to replace the cartridges with empty toners, you have to do the same thing with all the replacements.

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