Brother printer HL2040 (laser)

Submitted: Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 13:56
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Hi, can anyone tell me how to activate the printer sheet counter on this. PC is running Windows XP. Tks
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Reply By: Gerhardp1 - Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 14:19

Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 14:19
Try the last one in this list

DRIVER/PANEL STATUS

The driver is very intuitive, or so I think. It allows for manual duplexing (which is easy) DPI settings of 300X300, 600X600, or 600X2400, tons of paper settings, watermarks, everything you would need. My favorite feature is a status sheet you can print through the driver. It gives you the drum life, how many pages you’ve run from the manual feed and the tray, how many jams it has had in all three locations, and much more. It’s very useful.

The panel isn’t too difficult to work with. There’s four LED Lights: toner, drum, paper, and ready, along with a ‘Go’ button which is relatively useful despite it’s vague title. Here's what it can do:

-Cancel the current job, hold it for three seconds, or until all lights come on
-Warm up the printer, just hit it
-Resume printing after clearing some jams or loading paper, tap it once
-Send a job to the paper tray that you told to go to the manual feed, just tap it
-Reset the drum counter, open the toner access door, and hold it for three seconds, then close it. I believe this only works when it gives you drum replace errors
-Print a test page, hold go while you turn the printer on, then tap it once
-Print a page count sheet, tap go three times when it is not sleeping
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Follow Up By: wigger - Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 14:55

Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 14:55
Tks gerhardp, Will go and look. I went out and got a new 2040 because the 1230 I was using starte to produce broken black lines/track marks about 30mm apart on the paper (not parallel tracks, just one). Was this a sign that the cartridge was stuffed?
Do you have to replace the cartridge with a Brother or can you use a generic ?
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Follow Up By: wigger - Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 15:07

Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 15:07
Yes Gerhardp Guru. It works. is it just an urban myth that you damage the printer/cartridge when double siding by running pages through a second time to do the second side ?
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Follow Up By: Gerhardp1 - Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 18:36

Monday, Dec 31, 2007 at 18:36
You can use the Brother genuine cartridge, or this Site Link

or this Site Link

You won't hurt the printer by manual duplexing.
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