Review of Brother DR520 (25,000 YLD) Replacement Drum Cartridge

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This drum works fine for me. It lasts about 30,000 pages, or 6 months, and is an acceptable lifetime.

What most people don't realize is that when you buy other similar printers, you end up paying much more for your toner and drums because the drum unit is part of the toner cartridge. Brother splits them out to keep the cost of your toner cartridges down.

I've found that the annual toner + drum cost for a HL-5240 is about 30% less than the toner for a similar HP.

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I'm surprised to see the negative reviews for the Brother brand drums. I'm on my second MFC all-in-one device. My first one gave me reliable use to 78,000 copies before it croaked (bad fuser) and I immediately went out and bought another Brother to replace it. The MFC-8860DN is my current model and I've already logged 26,000 copies on it. Over the last few hundred copies, it started making a grinding noise and slightly wrinkling my copies, so knowing it was time for drum replacement, went ahead and ordered one. I once tried a 'refurbished' or aftermarket version which didn't hold up for 10,000 copies, so I've stuck with the Brother brand when it comes to Drums. I consistently got 20,000 copies on my last printer drums, and got 25,000 on this one. I don't know what more you can expect at this price point! I did NOT buy my drum from this website, as I found it for less elsewhere. I like brother printers because the toner cartridges are so easy to refill! I buy toner by the bulk off an auction site, and I'm able to refill each cartridge about 3 times before I begin to see a quality loss. Between the low toner cost and the high output of original OEM Brother drums, I'm skating out cheap! Quality is top notch.

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This is the 3rd Drum for our Brother printer that we have ordered as being "new". They have all in fact been re-manufactured.

The reason I know they are not new is that re manufactured drums will not clear out the "please replace drum soon" code on the printers menu and if you inspect the drum, you can find toner still inside the drum from the last time it was used.

Also the box appears genuine, but when you open the box, the bag that the drum comes in is not factory sealed by brother, but in fact folded over and taped.

I do not want the hassle of returning it, but unfortunately in the future I will order from office depot as they still seem to be able to sell the drums new.

Thank you for asking for my rating, but I am not a very good reviewer I am afraid,

Charles Barry McIlvain

TradeForce Staffing

Portland, Oregon

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I own two of these drum units. I was disappointed that the drum was failing only after about 8000 prints. I found toner buildup on the drum cylinder. The problem was corrected by replacing the toner cartridge not the drum. Possibly it was defective toner cartridges causing premature drum failure.

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The Brother DR520 drum was advertised as 25000 pages typical use. I did not get to 9000 before the left side of the paper started to have a permanent black streak that kept getting wider and wider. By 10000 pages, the drum on that side was "slap wore out" as they say around here. I give the drum a one out of five stars. On the other hand, the replacement was dropped in and it printed like new again, so a five for ease of replacement. Overall I will give it the average of the two, a three star rating.