Customer Reviews

Brother DR250 Drum Unit

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Since Amazon doesn't allow a person to write two reviews about one product, I am doing this review about the drum that goes with the Brother DCP-1000. In my review two years ago about the DCP-1000, I raised questions about the drum, which is the DR250. Since then I did replace the drum and also used only genuine Brother toner cartridges, and I have gone through three cartridge replacements (over 7,000 pages) without any print output problems. I have also complained to the company that made the toner refill that I had used on the first drum, and they have given me a full refund. Based on my experience, it seems that the Brother drum and replacement toner cartridge system results in a lower cost-per-page printed than similar laser printers using integrated drum-and-toner cartridges.

As with the toner cartridge, only use the genuine Brother replacement drum unit for best & superior results. Replacing with a new drum unit renews the ultimate crisp, clean printing of a laser printer. This results in a far cheaper per page print cost (for us at ~2.1 cents per print including the price of paper, toner and the drum). I personally know several other Brother MFC-series laser printer all-in-one owners, and many still own printers that are much older than mine. They have shared their experience that "compatible" "clone" drums just don't cut it.

Here is my cost-use analysis for my Brother MFC-6800.

Drum = 25,000 prints = 0.0054 cents per page (based on $135 price @ Amazon.com)
Toner = 3,600 prints = 0.0072 cents per page (based on $25.92 per cartridge @ Amazon.com)
Paper = .0082 cents per page (based on $41.00 / case of 5,000 sheets @ Sams Club)
TOTAL: 2.08 cents / page (INCLUDES Drum, Toner & Paper costs)

Type of printing: Invoices, price sheets, promotions (heavy toner use due to graphics).

Other brands of laser printers have you change a drum unit with each toner cartridge. While that approach ensures the drum never gets dirty enough, your cost per print is far higher, with Consumer Reports calculating toner costs along at around 3 cents per page for other laser printers.

Our Brother MFC-6800 printer is now coming up on 6 years old and it has topped 70,000 prints. I expect this printer to last several more years. Not bad considering the original $249.00 investment.

Works fine but the print is lighter than with the original factory drum unit. Seems like a remanufacture to me.

I am totally happy with this product and the company, Discount Laser. And the price was fantastic. My printer is a Brother MFC4800 (about 8+years old)

I ordered the drum from Discount Laser and for some odd reason ordered the toner from another company (databazaar.com). Big Mistake. The printing was scanty, irregular. I cleaned the machine and followed all the recommended service advise in the manual and on line. Finally after no better printing results:

I called Discount Laser to find out what might be the cause of the poor printing. The technician was awesome, explained everything I needed to know. I followed his advise and ordered a toner from Discount Laser. It came quickly and after about 10 copies, the printing cleared up and continues to produce great results.

I realized later, after ordering the toner catridge from Discount Laser and comparing the two toner catridges that the toner catridge from databazaar was broken and barely had any toner in it. Unfortunately, I was not able to tend to the issue until after the 30 day return limit and the other toner company was not understanding at all.

I highly recommend Discount Laser. Products were excellent, price was excellent, especially for a person an a small budget, and customer service was outstanding. Many Kudos.

Diane

I am very happy to have found this drum unit at 30% lower than a major office supply store. It seems to work just as well as the original.

These last 'forever' compared to the cheap refurbs, refills or no-names you see advertised. Don't waste your money on those. Buy an original Brother drum for your Brother machine. You'll be glad you did.

Did not like spending this much but the refurbished units did not have good print quality from other suppliers. This unit was delivered quickly and seems to be the original Brother material but most important of all, works well - at least in the first 3 days of use. Decided to give this drum a try because my MFC4800 is the only one that fits in a drawer in my desk. A note of caution is be sure no staples are hidden in the pages in the feeder or glue of any kind on the edge of tear off sheets. These will ruin an expensive drum.

This is the drum I need for my specific printer and Amazon sold it to me for the best price.

It works great, am still using it without any problem, and best of all I was able to get it at a really reduced price. Very happy with this purchase.

Received the replacement drum for my elderly (over 8 years old) Brother 6800MFC. Took about four minutes to install and my output was back to 'new' quality. Excellent product - based on my experience with Brother monochrome MFC's, you can't go wrong - over 8 years of heavy home and home-office use - still works perfectly. Even better - when I replaced my desktop with a new one and Windows 7, it was immediately recognized and works even better than it did with XP