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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

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Refining Your Laser Toner Cartridges

Laser Toner Cartridges
The Toner Expert
Have you been messed up cleaning and maintaining your brother toner cartridges? Well you don't have to be so down because you're not alone. There are a lot of printer users out there who just like you are also not familiar with the proper procedure on how to clean and maintain their printers toner cartridges.

Printer cartridges are the very essential component of your printer, we all know that without it our printer wouldn't be able to create printouts. Taking them for granted or using them regularly without proper maintenance could probably cause them to break down easily and get damaged. To prevent having such problems, regularly cleaning your laser toner cartridges may help you extend the life of your toner cartridges and boost the performance of your laser printer.

Brother cartridges may be too expensive to regularly purchase especially when you always buy new cartridges just because you damaged the previous one, isn't that a pain. Now to avoid encountering this problems you should regularly check your toner cartridges for any defects, deformities, or any small breakage that may cause bigger problems, and of course schedule a routine for maintenance to ensure that your printers cartridges will perform to its fullest capacity.

To give you the basics of cleaning your Brother toner cartridges, here are the steps and proper procedures to avoid unwanted leaks inside your printer, toner build ups that may cause blockage and so on. Follow the procedures listed below to perfectly refine your toner cartridges.

  • Turn off your Brother laser printers and make sure to unplug its power cord from the power strip. Let it still for an hour or two before proceeding with the task to make sure its heat rollers or photo-receptor drums have cooled down to avoid unwanted burns. 
  • Before starting, make sure to put on a face mask and latex gloves on your hands knowing that toner particles might cause some health risks especially to those who have asthma and bronchitis.  Open the toner compartment then and carefully pull out the Brother toner cartridges from the printer. 
  • Place the toner cartridge aside on a safe place and wipe its outer shell with a dry rag or paper towel. Keep in mind to do this carefully. 
  • Next, using a compact or portable vacuum cleaner, insert its nozzle into the cartridge compartment and vacuum any spilled toner or paper dust inside your Brother unit. Be careful not to disconnect any of the machine’s internal component with the vacuum nozzle. 
  • Using a small brush gently dislodge any remaining toner powder from the corners and edges of the toner compartment then vacuum the area for the second time. 
  • Place the Brother toner cartridges back to the toner compartment then close and latch the cover before plugging it and switching it on. 
  • Wipe any toner residue from your work area with a rag. If the toner had stained, make sure to wash it with cold water or moisten a paper towel with acetone or alcohol then rub it in the area. Never wash it with hot water because this heat sets in the toner.

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