Brother BU-330CL Genuine Belt Unit 50,000 Pages
Brother BU-330CL Genuine Belt Unit 50,000 Pages
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The Part That Keeps Your Colours Lined Up
The genuine Brother BU-330CL is a colour laser belt unit - the part that carries toner from the drum to the page and keeps the four colours in register - rated by Brother at approximately 50,000 pages at one page per job or approximately 130,000 pages at three pages per job.
A colour laser has four wear parts, not one: the toner cartridges, the drum, the belt unit and the waste toner box. The belt is the one most people have never heard of, and it is the one that governs colour alignment. Brother's own fault guidance for colour offset and for a failed colour registration ends with the same instruction - install a new belt unit. If your colours are very slightly out of line with each other, this is the part to look at before anything else. Brother Australia lists it for the HL-L8260CDW, HL-L8360CDW, HL-L9310CDW, MFC-L8690CDW, MFC-L8900CDW and MFC-L9570CDW.
Brother rates this belt unit two ways, and the gap between them is the point: approximately 50,000 pages at one page per job, and approximately 130,000 pages at three pages per job. Like a drum, it wears by how often the machine cycles rather than purely by sheets, so short jobs consume it faster per page. Work out which pattern your office actually prints before you plan around either number.
Your printer will warn you before it stops. Brother's display shows Belt End Soon first, which is the point at which to order, and Replace Belt when it is due. One step people miss: after fitting a new belt you must reset the belt counter in the machine's Parts Life menu, or the printer keeps counting the old one. It works with the DR-441CL drum, the TN-441, TN-443 and TN-446 toner range and the WT-320CL waste toner box, and the printer reports each of them separately, so they rarely fall due together. Using the genuine Brother part keeps the printer's own parts-life counters accurate, which is what lets it warn you in advance instead of failing mid-job. Replacement is an end-user job.
Suits these Brother printers
- HL-L8260CDW
- HL-L8360CDW
- HL-L9310CDW
- MFC-L8690CDW
- MFC-L8900CDW
- MFC-L9570CDW