The purge pump is the device that you hear whizzing around when you first install a new cartridge. One other very common issue that can cause a printer to stop printing in Black or colour is a faulty purge pump or purge seals. This has enabled us to provide generic cartridges which we believe are the best on the market. This doesn't effect them drying on the actual paper but it does prevent it from drying out in the printer itself.Īt Ink Hub we have done stringent tests over the years to check the drying rates of various non genuine inks. Printer inks actually contain various chemicals which prevent the ink from drying. The ink needs to flow at the correct rate and also needs to be formulated to NOT CONGEAL or dry too fast. If the viscosity of the ink is not correct and similar to the Brother inks then various issues can occur. Due to the massive availability of generic cartridges there is a huge difference in quality between one generic ink and another. Using very low quality generic ink cartridgesīrother inkjet printers, like any other printer brand uses specific inks in their printers designed to perform correctly with their own machines. We've all don't this before but let me tell you it WILL eventually kill the printhead if you keep doing it long enough.ģ.
There have been many articles written about sticking electrical tape over the small window at the front of your Brother cartridges so that you can keep printing and the printer then cant tell if the cartridge is run out of ink. It's kind of like running a car for too long without coolant in the radiator. This indicates that some of the nozzles are blocked but not all of them.Īlso when you print with a near empty black cartridge then the air going into the print nozzle will start to dry the ink that is already in the nozzle. If you continue to print like this for a long period of time then you may even permanently damage the printhead. It may not fully stop and you may simply get lines through the printing. When air starts to get into to the nozzle or the lines going to the nozzle then the printer will stop printing in black. I know that we all want the most from our cartridges but if you print too long and the ink runs very low then you will start introducing air into the print nozzle. When your printer starts warning you that the Black cartridge is getting Low and needs to be replaced it's OK to keep printing for a while but not for too long. Make sure that you install a new cartridge well before it runs dry If this is not removed then the ink remains vacuum sealed in the cartridge and it will not come out under any circumstances.Ģ. The breather tape or sometimes referred to as the shipping tape MUST be removed before installing the cartridge. Check that the "Breather Tape" on the top of the cartridge is fully removed.
DO NOT blame the cartridge as it is almost NEVER the cartridge which is at fault even though this is when the problem may have first appeared.ġ. Remember that issues will almost always begin when a new cartridge is installed. Here are some of the main reasons, including a few things to check before getting too carried away with the situation. What can cause a Brother printer to not print black?There are quite a few scenarios that can stop your Brother printer from printing in black. Overall Brother inkjet printers are very reliable and if used regularly and correctly then very few issues will occur. Brother printers work perfectly well with generic ink cartridges, in fact there should be absolutely no difference whatsoever in both operation and print quality using non genuine cartridges as long as they are good quality generic Brother cartridges. In this article I want to first start with the main reasons that could cause this problem to occur followed by the solutions. No-one, (including Brother) seems to know exactly why this problem is so common and even why it has continued to plague Brother printers for so many years. This has been a common issue with Brother Inkjet printers for as long as I can remember. Brother Inkjet Printers are renowned for having the problem of the black cartridge not printing.
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