I have a Brother MFC-5840CN printer. It will not print. I have replaced the print cartridges and cleaned the print head. When you send a document to it it makes all of the right printing noises but only blank pages come out. The test print page from the maintenance menu is also blank

Anonymous Jan 22, 2009

I have exactly the same problem with this printer - running Microsoft XP Home edition ...
azzy129 Mar 22, 2009

makes all the right printing noises, you can hear the print head move, paper is fed correctly and moves in/out but what comes out is a blank page all the time. No sign of any ink/gaps on the page or slight splodges. WTH?

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Tech support at Brother could not help me over the phone or via the net so I figured I would get the same info from you guys and have to pay for it and still have a printer that doesn't work so I will take it to the shop and pay them only if they fix it
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