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Anyone have a recommendation for the best generic toner brand for Brother printers?

The genuine Brother toners are WAY too expensive.
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teelainen wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 11:23 pm Anyone have a recommendation for the best generic toner brand for Brother printers?

The genuine Brother toners are WAY too expensive.
I usually look on Amazon and find one with a lot of review and that passes fakespot. I have been using my current brother all-in-one since 2013.
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anon_investor wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 11:59 pm
teelainen wrote: Sun Oct 24, 2021 11:23 pm Anyone have a recommendation for the best generic toner brand for Brother printers?

The genuine Brother toners are WAY too expensive.
I usually look on Amazon and find one with a lot of review and that passes fakespot. I have been using my current brother all-in-one since 2013.
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I can't speak to best, but I have used the Jarbo cartridges and have had no problems. They deliver right around their supposed page count.
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I buy the cheapest ones on ebay and from a high rated seller.
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+1 on the above recs. I print several thousand pages per year, and the cheapest ones on Amazon that pass muster on ReviewMeta have served me well. At ~$12 per cartridge, you don't have much to lose beyond perhaps investing the time to google the counter-bypass dance that some printers demand.

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I have been using Linkyo toners for many years in my Brother printer.

No problems.
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I've used Comp and Save for some years now for refills for our Brother printer. The ink cartridges have always worked very well. And, they ship quickly, too.

(The link I supplied is for their Brother toners)


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We've been using "E-Z Ink" cartridges from Amazon for our Brother printers for a few years without any problems.https://www.amazon.com/Ink-Replacement- ... +ink+tn660

E-Z Ink cartridges are like 1/3 to 1/2 the price of the the standard OEM replacement cartridge. I don't think they last as long as a regular Brother cartridge but otherwise they work fine as far as I can tell. We've had 2 Brother printers over the last 20 years and they seem to be durable and reliable for our occasional use at home. We usually buy a "real" Brother cartridge for the first replacement and then start using the off-brand replacements.

For awhile I tried the DIY cartridge refill kits but they were messy and the off-brand cartridges are so cheap it's not worth the effort to try to refill them. (Toner powder can be a real mess to clean-up if you spill some, even in a garage.)
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I bought this one- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084L ... UTF8&psc=1. I did have a problem shortly after installing the second cartridge and they sent me 2 new ones.
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LifeIsGood wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 6:57 am I bought this one- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084L ... UTF8&psc=1. I did have a problem shortly after installing the second cartridge and they sent me 2 new ones.
I had a similar experience with multiple cartridges from, I think, EPS brand. They were quick to replace them upon notification, but:

Their failure rate was too high for my taste
The print quality, while OK, was a clear step down from Brother's
At one point, a horrible grinding sound came from one of the cartridges.

At that point I decided that it was better to just buy OEM. I with that generics worked as well but for me they didn't, and I didn't want to mess up the printer. I'm using the basic monochrome laser, something like HL2370-DW.
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Have bought Brother like printer cartridges twice from 4Inkjets. Both worked as well as the Brother original and total cost, including shipping was $18.18 each. Hope this helps.
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Brother.
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I manage my wife's small law firm, we currently have 8 Brother laser MFPs and print or copy around 12k pages per month, so we use a lot of toner cartridges and drums. These are the three manufacturers I use the most, in this order:

1. LD Products - back in the '00s, I would buy directly from their site, but they now have the same prices and faster delivery on Amazon.
2. Linkyo
3. LxTek
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Alex Frakt wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 1:42 am I manage my wife's small law firm, we currently have 8 Brother laser MFPs and print or copy around 12k pages per month, so we use a lot of toner cartridges and drums.
Thank you, very helpful. I like these credentials.
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You'd have to confirm this, but the store clerk told me that if you use a non-Brother toner, it voids the warranty on the printer, if that is a consideration for you.
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I've used Jarbo brand toner cartridges many times, been happy with them.
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teniralc wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:50 pm You'd have to confirm this, but the store clerk told me that if you use a non-Brother toner, it voids the warranty on the printer, if that is a consideration for you.
teniralc,

We can buy a new Brother printer at $100 if it is not on-sale. Around $50 when it is on-sale.

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My current Brother MFC-L2740DW is about 5 years old. Have been using a HaloFox TN660 cartridge for roughly a year, extremely clear print resolution which I think is better than the original Brother cartridge.
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teniralc wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:50 pm You'd have to confirm this, but the store clerk told me that if you use a non-Brother toner, it voids the warranty on the printer, if that is a consideration for you.
Might be true but with savings in toner and the low likelihood of a warranty covered repair being needed, I don't worry about this.
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Brother.

The last time I ordered a highly rated, generic toner cartridge, it wasn’t sealed properly. When I opened the box, a cloud of toner poofed out and turned both me and my entire office black. I looked like a coal miner, and parts of my office were never clean again until I moved out.

So I get the name brand stuff now.
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teniralc wrote: Wed Oct 27, 2021 5:50 pm You'd have to confirm this, but the store clerk told me that if you use a non-Brother toner, it voids the warranty on the printer, if that is a consideration for you.
If that's true, I suspect only because it hasn't been challenged in court. IANAL, but the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is the law in question and warrantors cannot require that only manufacturer-branded parts are used in the warranted product. This is most seen in automobile warranties (you cannot require Honda oil in a Honda, etc.).

However, I suspect that if the manufacturer can prove that damage to a printer was caused by a piece of junk toner cartridge, they could deny a claim.

Anyway I could understand how a printer owner would not want to spend their time and money being the test case to challenge a manufacturer's encroachment upon the terms of this Act. I surely don't, so at a minimum I decided to use Brother cartridges while the printer was under warranty. After warranty, I did try some generics. Based on my experience with them I've returned to the originals. Whether my experience was a function of a crappy toner cartridge or the manufacturer designing their product not to work well with generics, I don't know. The latter, if demonstrated, could be another area to be challenged (and I've heard of similar shenanigans in the inkjet market).
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Bogle7 wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:12 pm Brother.
Life is too short to sweat printer cartridge prices.
Me too, but I print dozens of pages every year, so my opportunities for savings are limited.
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I have been using a replacement toner cartridge from ezink without any issues in my very old Brother monochrome laser printer. I got it through Amazon.
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Had bad luck with HP generic - since getting the Brother - love it and the tech support is great - I only use their cartridges but DW and I aren't heavy users and so the cost is spread over a larger timeframe for our budget .
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Another Linkyo convert after years spent based on checking reviews on Amazon.
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Bogle7 wrote: Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:12 pm Brother.
Life is too short to sweat printer cartridge prices.
Exactly - love bother printers - best I've ever had - toner lasts so long - worth it to get Brother and recycle the carts.
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I am interested in comments about Review Meta and Fakespot. Are they build into Amazon? If not, how do you use them? There are so many fake reviews out there...
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Another vote for Jarbo - been using them for years for a Samsung printer with no apparent issues.
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I have a Brother MFC-J825DW. I've been using these for years:

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13328
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