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Brother HL-2132 - Lousy Yield on the Starter Toner Cartridge and How to Work Around it

I bought a Brother HL-2132 mono laser printer from Offceworks recently. Like almost all printers these days, it came with a "starter" toner cartridge that promises 700 pages of print. Well, guess what? The "Replace toner" LED came on after printing only 199 pages! How do I know? More on that later. A quick search found a number of proposed solutions on the Web, ranging from taping the optical window to resetting the flag gear on the toner cartridge. Well, the starter cartridge I got came with neither of these mechanisms. Seems like Brother has read all these solutions and decided to lock down their starter cartridges even further! What finally worked for me was to factory reset the printer. This can be done by the following steps: 1. Open the front cover and remove the toner cartridge. Leave the front cover open! 2. Turn the printer off. 3. Press and hold the "Go" button while turning the printer on. All LEDs will light up. Release the "Go&