How to Reset Toner and Drum counter of Brother HL2140 (and the likes)

Toners and drums of any brands of printer are too expensive. So to cut the company expenses, we do life “hack” of some things.

Below are some instructions for resetting the toner counter if it remains on after you’ve already replaced the said toner. These steps is for HL2140 but already tested on HL2150 and almost similar printers:

• Turn the printer off and open the front cover.
• Hold the “GO” button while turning the printer on.
• All panel lights should now be on. Release the “GO” button.
• Press the “GO” button twice.
• Pause and wait for a 5 seconds.
• Press the “GO” button 5 times and the toner light should turn off.
• Now close the cover.The ready light should be the only light on.

Actually, you could still test or use the previous toner, because it’s not the toner that was already lapse…only its counter.

And here’s how to reset the drum counter:
Having the cartridge door open, press and hold down the white button for about 4 seconds until all the LEDs light up. Once all 4 LEDs are lit, release the button.

Or

Having the cartridge door open, Press the white button 3 times then all LEDs light up. Then close the cartridge door.

On the MFC machines (multi-function) you should be able to get rid of the “end of life” messages as follows:

• Open front door where you access the toner.
• Press the Clear/Back button.
• Follow menu for resetting the different cartridges.

Some have found that the drum or toner message didn't reset even if they already replace both, so here's a way to reset all:

• Open the front door where you access the toner.
• Press the Clear/Back button. You will be shown a dialogue “REPLACE DRUM? 1.Yes 2.No
• DO NOT type in 1 or 2! Instead, type in *00 (i.e. Asterisk Zero Zero) on the keypad and you should be rewarded with “accepted”.
• Close the front door and the end life message should disappear.

If the above procedures don’t work, the manual reset of the cartridge is another option.

Note: please avoid touching the toner roller except at the very ends of its rollers or your hands will full of carbon. You can’t eat having a carbonized hand. :D

There is a plug at the side of the cartridge (see red arrow).

 The cartridge tells the printer that he's already dried up because of this lever. But, when you lift it back, as you’ve seen on the picture, you might still use it. Sometimes, the counter ticks so fast even if there still enough toner to use inside of it.

Also, rotate the roller as the red arrow indicated.

Try to use it again by returning the cartridge back into your printer and the lever should turn the drum counter reset.

 

How to restart your printer remotely

first of all, you need to prepare a reboot file:

%-12345X@PJL COMMENT
@PJL DMINFO ASCIIHEX="040006020501010301040105"
%-12345X

Copy this to a notepad and save it as: reboot.txt (actually, you can named it anything you want...tehee!)

Now, to make a connection using CMD command to the printer.

On CMD, type the path where the reboot.txt is. Since i put mine at desktop, it will looked like this:

c:\user\unit01\cd desktop
c:\user\unit01\desktop

then, type ftp. It will be looked like this one:

c:\user\unit01\cd desktop
c:\user\unit01\desktop
c:\user\unit01\desktop\ftp
ftp>

type open 192.168.*.*, where this is the IP of your printer. afterwards, it will be looking for your password:

c:\user\unit01\desktop\ftp
ftp>open 192.168.*.*

hit enter if you didn't have any password, until the ftp> appeared again. and lastly type:

 ftp> put c:\user\unit01\desktop\reboot.txt

hit enter and wait for the ftp> to show again. notice the printer that it will restart by itself.

type the word "bye" to exit from the ftp mode.

...and that's how to restart the printer remotely.

I tested it to our office printer (HP Laserjet 4315dtn) and it works like magic.

How To Clean Dirty Print-out (for Brother 2240D)

 Step 1 – Open the front cover and remove the toner cartridge and drum unit assembly from the machine.

 

Step 2 – Clean the corona wire inside the drum unit by gently sliding the green tab from left to right and right to left several times.

Step 3 – Install the toner cartridge and drum unit assembly back into the machine and close the front cover of the machine.

Why are we doing this?

—To bring the printer back to operational use

—To cut the delay time

—Be cost efficient

Canon iP1300 5100 service error and self test

Below is to how to fix your Canon printer iP1300 from such a damn freaking 5100 error, like you've seen on this picture:

• Turn off the printer first
• Open the printer and check that the carriage moves without an obstruction over the full travel (left to right and back).
• Check that the ink cartridge is properly installed. Also look at the gears to confirm they are reasonably clean (no debris in the cogs of the gears such as paper or paper clip).
• Clean dust and debris from the carriage area.
• The position strip (a plastic strip about 1/4" wide on some printers) may be need to be cleaned.

and below is the self-test for it in which you don't have to connect it to your computer:
1. Turn on the printer.
2. Press the continue button 4x quickly.
3. And your Canon printer will begin to run a print test.







Note:
If the printer still experiencing the error, please contact the nearest Canon service center or you can just throw it to your nearest trash bin.

Steps To Fix Error 0x00000709 [When your printer is against to be your default one]

• Click the Start button located at the bottom left and type regedit, this will list the result in the search pane, right click regedit and select “Run As Administrator”.

• Expand the tree and scroll down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER

– Select Software
– Select Microsoft
– Select Windows NT
– Select CurrentVersion
– Select Windows
 

Note that each folder is a subset of another folder, the main folder and the path of the destination folder is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windows 

• Select device key from the right pane, right click on it and select Modify now change the value, to the name of your printer. Example: HP Laserjet P1006,winspool,Ne03:

 

 

•  If you are prompted with the “cannot edit device” dialog, just click OK.

•  Right click on the Window folder from the left panel and choose Permissions, and put check in the Full Control Box.