Brother WT-223CL Genuine Waste Toner Box 50,000 Pages

Where the Leftover Toner Goes

The genuine Brother WT-223CL is a colour laser waste toner box, the part that collects surplus toner so it cannot contaminate the inside of the printer, rated by Brother at approximately 50,000 pages at five pages per job.

Not all the toner a colour laser uses ends up on paper. Some is scraped off during cleaning and colour registration, and the waste toner box is where it goes. It is a sealed container, so the point of replacing it on time is to stop loose toner finding its way into the machine. It sits underneath the belt unit, which is why Brother's procedure has you lift the drum and the belt out first. Brother Australia lists it for the HL-L3230CDW, HL-L3270CDW, DCP-L3510CDW, MFC-L3745CDW, MFC-L3750CDW and MFC-L3770CDW.

Brother rates this waste toner box at approximately 50,000 pages at five pages per job. That qualifier matters: the part wears by how often the printer cycles, not purely by sheet count, so a machine running short jobs will get through it faster than the page figure suggests.

Your printer warns you first - the display shows WT Box End Soon, which is when to order, then Replace WT Box when it is due. A waste toner box is a single-use sealed part: it is not designed to be emptied or reused. If you are fitting one for the first time on a new machine, note that the original has two pieces of orange packing material to remove, which a replacement does not. It works with the DR-253CL drum, the TN-253 and TN-257 toner range and the BU-223CL belt unit. 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-L3230CDW
• HL-L3270CDW
• DCP-L3510CDW
• MFC-L3745CDW
• MFC-L3750CDW
• MFC-L3770CDW