Brother DR350 Drum Unit

by Brother

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14 x 8.2 x 4.8 inches ; 1.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007KI6P4
• Item model number: dr350
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #61 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Office Electronics Accessories > Ink & Toner > Laser Printer Toner
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 14, 2004

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Brother DR350 drum unit works with the TN350 toner cartridge (sold separately) to provide clean, sharp prints on your compatible Brother laser printers and multifunction units. You can expect an impressive life span of about 12,000 pages (based on 5% coverage) from this dedicated drum unit. It snaps easily into place with minimal fuss and is compatible with a wide variety of Brother models, including DCP-7020, MFC-7820, MFC-7420, and MFC-7220, and laser printer models HL-2040 and HL-2070N. The package includes one drum unit.

Product Description

The Brother DR350 Drum Unit. For Use With: DCP-7020, IntelliFax-2820, IntelliFax-2910, IntelliFax-2920, HL-2040, HL-2070N, MFC-7220, MFC-7225N, MFC-7420, MFC-7820N

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

84 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Extend Toner Life (i.e, avoid getting ripped off), January 26, 2008

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Drew M. Loewe "RhetCompDocStudent" (Fort Worth TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother DR350 Drum Unit (Office Product)

The cartridge that this drum holds will refuse to let you print after a certain time, alleging that the toner life is ended.

This will fly in the face of the evidence of crisp pages, with evidently a decent amount of toner left. This is not like the old days, where the pages continue to print, and the print quality degrades as toner dissipates. Nope, this is a "We'll decide for you when you go get another cartridge" move by the manufacturer.


Countermeasures against this ploy:

1. Shake cartridge, replace
2. After a while, #1 won't work. Then, open cover, Options, *00, close cover
2. After a while, #2 won't work. Then, get a black Sharpie and cover the laser window on the non-gear side of the cartridge.

Should get you closer to getting your money's worth.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Change Drum Soon" = you might get 4,000 more copies, October 19, 2007

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C. MacPhail (Solana Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother DR350 Drum Unit (Office Product)

I had a "Change Drum Soon" message for over a year, and the original drum kept working fine. I finally had to replace the drum at 16,080 copies because of some smearing/double imaging.

This trick, plus the tape-over-hole trick for extending toner cartridge life, reduces your consumables cost by 40%. Well under 2 cents per page...better than any other laser printer I know of.

**12-30-09: The following trick is obsolete. HL-2040 is no longer sold** -->> The brother HL-2040 printer often goes on sale for 65 to 70 bucks. Just throw away the printer but use the DR-350 drum and the starter toner cartridge ($25 worth of toner).

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars still get change drum message, May 13, 2007

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Nitin Bawa "seagrove doc" (Santa Rosa Beach, FLorida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brother DR350 Drum Unit (Office Product)

I changed the drum but the printer still asks me to change the drum. It was a very expensive piece and it is very frustrating to still see this error message...