Product Description

Brother is committed to providing exceptional value for customers by utilizing its accumulated technology and know-how to satisfy their needs. The company supplies unique products, for personal use in office and home that incorporate the pleasure of creation with practical functionality.This toner cartridge yields approximately 7, 000 pages when printing at 5% page coverage on A4/Letter sized paper.

Product Details

• Color: Black
• Brand: Brother
• Model: TN580
• Released on: 2006-02-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.00" h x 8.00" w x 14.00" l, .0 pounds

Features

• High-yield toner cartridge delivers professional results in minutes
• Yield of 7,000 sheets based on 5% coverage of letter-sized pages
• Quickly and easily pops into place
• Produces rich, clear, precise black text
• Compatible with Brother models DCP-8060, DCP-8065DN, HL-5240, HL-5250DN, HL-5250DNT, HL-5280DW, MFC-8460N, MFC-8660DN, MFC-8670DN, MFC-8860DN, MFC-8870DW

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Compatible with Brother printer models HL5200, HL5250DN, HL5240 and HL5280DW, the TN580 toner cartridge easily pops into place and gets you back to printing in just minutes. The unit is a high-yield cartridge, offering an expected yield of 7,000 sheets based on 5% coverage of letter-sized pages. Fine toner particles produce rich black text with precision and clarity. Brother recommends this name-brand cartridge for use as a replacement cartridge. What's in the Box: One TN580 black toner cartridge

Customer Reviews

A Trick to extending yield 33-50%
This cartridge will disable your printer once it (the cartridge) tells your printer it's empty. The cartridge has a window that is closed (blocked) by toner. This window runs through the cartridge from one side to the other. When the toner is full, the window is blocked, when the toner is seemingly empty, a laser is able to shine through the cartridge one side to the other thus signaling to the printer to shut down for cartridge replacement. I have found that when you obstruct this window with a simple piece of masking tape, you will have at least 33-50% more toner left. I'll leave any manufacturer motive speculation up to you.

Good yield toner cartridge
I thought these toner cartridges were awful and overpriced. our office was going through these things like Little Debbie Swiss Roll Snack Cakes. That was until I started actually researching toner cartridges. At the current price of this cartridge, the yield is $.01 a page. Compared to the Ricoh business class printers with their toner cartridge yield of $.014, this is cheaper, and the printer is much less expensive.

These cartridges are also cheaper than the regular Brother TN550 (3,500 YLD) Standard Yield Toner Cartridge which currently have a yield of $.015 per page.

Low capacity fixable, some may be defective
I was disappointed to find out that the toner cartridge stops working before the toner has run out. However, by obstructive the toner window on the cartridge with masking tape, the remaining print capacity of the cartridge is dramatically extended. I will leave it up to you as to whether you want to implement that solution or not.

I had another issue with toner build up on my drum unit from one of my toner cartridges. The problem was fixed by changing out the toner cartridge.