{"product_id":"brother-dr258cl-original-drum-unit-30000-pages","title":"Brother DR-258CL Genuine Drum Unit 4 Pack 20,000 Pages Each","description":"\u003ch2\u003eFour Drums, One Pack - and What the Page Figure Means\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe genuine Brother DR-258CL is a four-drum pack - one black drum and three colour drums - rated by Brother at approximately 20,000 pages per drum at one page per job.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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-L3240CDW, HL-L3280CDW, DCP-L3520CDW, DCP-L3560CDW, MFC-L3755CDW, MFC-L3760CDW, HL-L8240CDW and MFC-L8390CDW.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrother rates this drum at approximately 20,000 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaded 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-229CL belt unit and the WT-229CL waste toner box - and the printer reports all three separately, so they rarely come due together. This drum pairs with the TN-258 and TN-258XL 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSuits these Brother printers\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHL-L3240CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHL-L3280CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDCP-L3520CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDCP-L3560CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMFC-L3755CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMFC-L3760CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHL-L8240CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMFC-L8390CDW\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Brother","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50552993415424,"sku":"DSDR258CL 4PK","price":171.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/5419\/8784\/files\/brother_dr258cl_original_drum_unit_-_30000_pages__25883.1702074712.500.750.jpg?v=1791401936","url":"https:\/\/megaschoolsupplies.com.au\/products\/brother-dr258cl-original-drum-unit-30000-pages","provider":"Mega School Supplies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}