I’m on my third Brother HL laser printer now and what I realized is that at 200k page count, the printer is going to throw the error codes to “replace fuser” and “replace laser”. This does not mean that the fuser is bad, it is triggered at the 200k page count. (Helpful to know if you ever consider buying a used printer… or if you want to know when you might need to replace your printer so you can plan)
On the first one that got to that point (HL-L5200), I was having some print quality issues and I do think the fuser was failing. I replaced that printer with an HL-L6200 which is the same printer with a larger capacity paper tray and that one hit 200k last week. On this one, I do not think the fuser is bad yet but I don’t know if the machine will just stop working at any point because of the page count- and I would not be surprised if they set them up that way. Today I set up my spare HL-L5200 that has only 22k page printed on it, so I’m good for a little while but need to get another spare.
I am going to keep using the 6200 here and there just to see if it eventually stops or if it will keep going until the fuser actually does fail. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Also, I do a large volume of signings and printing and I’m rethinking what I actually print for the borrower’s copy. I have always just printed the entire package twice but there are so many pages in there that the borrower does not actually need- instruction pages, the extra pages of instructions with the W9, the extra copies of the closing disclosure (sometimes there are 4 copies of that!), etc. If I selectively print the borrowers copy, I can easily shave 20-30 pages or more on some of these packages. With volume, that stretches my paper budget and the life of my printer by quite a bit. Does anyone do this??? I know if will take a few extra minutes but maybe it’s worth it.