Brother DR-441CL Genuine Drum Unit 30,000 Pages

One Drum Unit for All Four Colours

The genuine Brother DR-441CL is a single four-colour laser drum unit rated by Brother at approximately 30,000 pages at one page per job, or 50,000 pages at three pages per job.

This is one drum unit that serves all four colours, not four separate drums. The four toner cartridges clip into their own colour-coded sections of the single drum, so one part replaces the whole imaging assembly. Brother Australia lists it for the HL-L8260CDW, HL-L8360CDW, HL-L9310CDW, MFC-L8690CDW, MFC-L8900CDW and MFC-L9570CDW.

Brother publishes two figures for this drum and the difference between them is large, so it is worth understanding which applies to you: approximately 30,000 pages at one page per job, and approximately 50,000 pages at three pages per job. The drum turns every time the printer starts a job, so short jobs wear it far faster per sheet. A print room running long documents will approach the higher figure; a machine producing single-page dockets all day will sit near the lower one. Drums carry no ISO yield standard - the pages-per-job basis is how Brother rates them.

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-330CL belt unit and the WT-320CL waste toner box - and the printer reports all three separately, so they rarely come due together. This drum pairs with the TN-441, TN-443 and TN-446 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-L8260CDW
• HL-L8360CDW
• HL-L9310CDW
• MFC-L8690CDW
• MFC-L8900CDW
• MFC-L9570CDW