[cbo100]

Yep, as a relatively recent (2.5 years ago) convert from HP to Brother because HP was pulling all this crap with with 3rd party toner cartridges.

The Brother has proved to be just as bad, and in some ways even worse.

Once it decides the (genuine) toner must be empty it basically refuses to print without some complex reset procedures. At least the HP would just happily print faded pages all day long.

[mochomocha]

My Brother printer once said the cartridge was empty and I refused to believe it. After browsing the internet a bit, I found a trick on an obscure forum that worked for me: you put a small piece of tape on the cartridge chip, and miraculously it's not detected as "empty" anymore. Two years after the procedure, I'm still printing on the same cartridge that was supposedly empty.