Brother DR-251CL Genuine Drum Unit 4 Pack 15,000 Pages Each
Brother DR-251CL Genuine Drum Unit 4 Pack 15,000 Pages Each
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Four Drums, One Pack - and What the Page Figure Means
The genuine Brother DR-251CL is a four-drum pack - one black drum and three colour drums - rated by Brother at approximately 15,000 pages per drum at one page per job.
This is a pack of four separate drums, not one part. Brother describes it as containing four drum units, one black and three colour, and each colour has its own drum that wears at its own rate. The rated life is per drum, so a heavy black workload will bring the black one due long before the other three. Brother Australia lists it for the HL-3150CDN, HL-3170CDW, DCP-9015CDW, MFC-9140CDN, MFC-9330CDW, MFC-9335CDW and MFC-9340CDW. Brother marks those machines as discontinued, but the drum is still published and supplied, so an installed printer can be kept in service.
Brother rates this drum at approximately 15,000 pages per drum at one page per job. That qualifier does real work. Drum wear tracks how often the drum cycles rather than how many sheets pass through, and the printer turns it for every job, so a hundred single-page jobs cost far more drum life than one long document. Offices printing multi-page work routinely get past the rated figure. Unlike toner, drums carry no ISO yield standard, which is why Brother states a pages-per-job basis instead.
Faded or washed-out print points to toner; marks, banding or ghosting repeating at a regular interval down every page points to the drum. The printer tracks drum life separately from toner level and will prompt you when it is due. On a colour laser the drum works alongside two other wear parts - the BU-220CL belt unit and the WT-220CL waste toner box - and the printer reports all three separately, so they rarely come due together. This drum pairs with the TN-251 and TN-255 toner range. A genuine Brother drum holds the imaging geometry and colour registration the printer was built around, which is what keeps streaks and misaligned colour out of the output. Replacement is an end-user job, with no tools and no service call.
Suits these Brother printers
- HL-3150CDN
- HL-3170CDW
- DCP-9015CDW
- MFC-9140CDN
- MFC-9330CDW
- MFC-9335CDW
- MFC-9340CDW