How To Fix Print Quality Issues Like Stains and Scattered Toners On Your Brother Printer

Have you experienced printing an important file then all of a sudden visible stains or scattered toners appears around the page of your printer material? It’s really annoying especially if the moment before the error occurs the printer was actually doing well with all the other pages it printed. It’s a random print error that users may occasionally experience with a printer just when a cartridge becomes damaged. A Brother laser printer like the MFC-9130CW for example, is part of the list of printer models that are vulnerable to such issues.

No matter what the reason may be why the cartridges inside the unit turn damaged, what you need to be concern of is how you can get rid of the problem. But first we have to determine which toner among the installed cartridges is the root cause. Well basically, you can get the answer just by merely looking at the color of stains from the output. Of course you don’t have to make conclusions if you’re only using a monochrome printer. With the sample unit above, it uses four Brother TN221 toner cartridges, thus you need to perform the solution below.

To know which cartridge may be damaged, there’s a simple trick that you can perform to help you with this problem.

Color Chart

Using the provided image above, save and open it on any image viewer you have and print it. Make sure you set the printer to print without margins, but actually It doesn’t matter if it has or not. What’s important is that the image should cover the whole page. Now print it.

Check the printout. Which among the four toner colors exhibit abnormal results? The next step requires you to install a new cartridge that will replace the damaged one. Then print the image once more to see if the output is pretty much better than the first one. Now if you think the unit is back to normal, you can run the cleaning maintenance to make sure the print heads are absolutely clean. Or, you can simply print a word document and see if stains or scattered toner particles are now gone.

If the solution above doesn’t fixed the problem, based on the image you print a while ago, replace the drum unit that corresponds to the toner color with uneven result. Again clean the print heads and try printing a plain-text document to see if the issue disappears.

Always take into consideration the room temperature where you want to install the printer. Toner may build up inside the unit that may cause such errors, as well as accumulated dust. Remember, it’s easier to prevent a printer problem than fix it.