20 Most Recent Brother HL-2040 Laser Printer - Page 7 Questions & Answers

then you have some buried deep inside..turn light off in office, close door, and use a flashlight or penlight..paper will glow from light..that will help a bit..then long tweezers to extract the fragments, eh?

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To reset the drum message:
Open the front door
Press and hold down the white button for about 4 seconds. Once all 4 LEDs are lit, release the button.
Close the front cover. Make sure that the Drum LED is now off.

in your paper feed tray there is a paper separation pad which is setup on a spring.just scratch it with some fine sand paper and clean with IP solution.

You may be able to get ahold of them off ebay, brother will not sell you one because the machine will be out of warranty. Normally these need an engineer to replace it which would cost considerabley more then a new HL2130 machine. The printer up from yours.

What you should do is look at the short sides of the toner. You will notice a clear round piece with tabs sticking up. What you need to do is color the inner part of the circle with a sharpie. This should give you another 100 prints or so. After you've exhausted that option, cover the spot a few times with electrical tape. What this is doing is block the "low toner" laser from shooting through these open spaces, tricking it into thinking it is full. Be sure to be observant; when the paper begins to look 'dirty' it is REALLY time to replace the cartridge. I've gotten up to 2,000 prints extra by doing this!! Good luck!

found this solution for a 2030 printer. haven't tried it yet but its a suggestion.

had the same problem and Brother tech support walked me through this procedure which worked fine..

1. Power Unit off

2. Open front cover

3. Press and hold GO and turn power on

4. When all 3 lights lit release and press GO twice

5. All lights turn solid

6. With all solid, press GO 5 times

7. Ready light GOes red

8. Close door and you're all set

Go to the following URL and look for answers by "seriously". He has the answer to your problem and pictures of where the problem exists.http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/printer/62484#31Here is his first answer:when you're facing the front of the machine, it's the left cover that you need to remove to see the solenoid. there's 2 screws holding the cover, one at the front behind the front door and one at the back behind the rear door. then remove the paper cassette and ply the cover off both at the front and rear, downward to remove.once the cover is off, look at the front end and you should see a larger black gear with a spring attached to it at a 45 deg angle. right behind the spring is the solenoid of interest. if you do a print, the solenoid should be triggered once and the black gear should only rotate once. if it rotate more than once, the solenoid arm is sticking to the sponge pad. use a small blade or flat head screwdriver to remove the pad from the solenoid and hopefully your problem should be solve.

Yep this will always happen if your just using a replacement toner. They will be depleted faster compared to the original Brother toner.Make sure you replace your toner with the original Brother toner.

Hello,I WANT DOWN LOAD CD-ROM DRIVER BROTHER PRINTER HL-2040

If u have the CD of tht printer , u just delet tht printer from the Devices and printers settings. And re installed it