Brother LC752PKS LC-75BK Ink Cartridges 2-Pack - Compatible with Brother Printers | High-Quality Printing for Home Office & School Projects

NaHad this Printer at least 10 years. MFC-J835DW.. None of 3 previous HP Printers worked this well, or this long.So printer ink is expensive but it's required even in this paperless society, but Brother has started to play the same tricks as HP. Once an ink cartridge runs out, printing won't work (at least true on the recent 2011 and newer MFPs). No scanning, no faxing, and no printing (even when not using that color).If that happens to you, you can "trick" the printer by covering the clear plastic on the print cartridge with colored tape. You can see the area to cover by looking for the float lever in the cartridge (turn it upside down and you'll see it appear and disappear). Put the cartridge back in and the printer will register the ink as full since it thinks the float lever is up and you're good to go.Edit: If you got in the habit of unplugging the printer when not in use to avoid the printer from automatically using a little ink as it automatically cleaned the heads, be careful. If the unit is unused for too long, the print heads will clog up with dried ink. The built in "heavy" cleaning may not work to unclog the heads at which point you'll either have to find a way to clear the heads manually (check youtube) or just toss the printer. I went the latter route and now have a laser printer - no more ink for me.I suppose if you're going to have to buy ink, getting this 2 pack of the large refills is the best best unless you want to try your luck at the ink refill shops. It worked out as the best price for me.The best quality for my Brother printer is name brand Brother ink. The price is not as inviting as I wish it would be and because of that I am very frugal with what I print and I end up handwriting (which I guess isn't a bad thing since it's a blessing to be able to write in the first place) it out. It is an observation that most people flock to the off brands because it is more inviting to buy more product for less money. Unfortunately for me, it is not worth the risk to spend the money on something cheaper but doesn't work properly the majority of the time. Many times, the off brand works excellent, but for the larger portion of the time, it is fails in performance. So, like I said, I buy the genuine stuff, but I am careful to not print just anything anytime I want as a convenience. Working it that way, I stay in budget. If the price dropped, I'd probably buy more often because I'd print more often.good product.Ink cartridges are great! The black is clear and fits in the printer perfectly! Brother is a great brand for my brother printer!Before you put in a new cartridge, you must remove the orange plastic cover....and in order to do that, you need to move that little green lever. Unfortunately, for me, the lever broke and the orange cover would not come off of the cartridge.What to do?Fortunately, I still had an orange cover with it's little green handle from my used cartridge. I replaced the new handle with the old one and it worked! I was able to unlock the orange cover and then put the cartridge in my printer.Moral of the story: don't throw your old cover away. You never know when you might need it.Other than that, the ink is just fine.Hence, 4 instead of 5 stars.For years the only ink I could find online for my Brother printer was replacement ink by other manufacturers, so that is what I have been using. Fine until a few months ago when I began having issues with black ink not printing out right. Cleaning endlessly did no good. Doing print jobs to "work in" the ink didn't seem to help. So I finally went out and bought this 2 pack of genuine Brother black ink. It cost me double what I paid for 3 10 packs of the more generic product, but I figured if switching to the Brother ink would get my printer working proper again it would be worth it.The other day I needed to change all the ink carts except the black, but I decided to replace the generic with the Brother ink anyway. What I found was that the printer went from doing poor printing in normal mode (you had to set it on best to get an actual proper print out on anything and everything) to a situation where it began printing out blank sheets. Nothing seemed to help. I tried the other ink cart again, then back to the brother, cleaning, printing etc... nothing worked. Even when setting it on the highest quality mode - best or photo I was getting blank sheets for printouts.But oddly enough. And this is strange and suggests to me that something is not quite right - as in possible malware installation during those 4 am automatic cleanings it does... Even though all of the cheap replacement colour inks show up perfect on the test sheets Full colour "dots". The "dots" for the black ink would be totally gone from the left side of the test page, yet for some reason - and this is why I suspect something has been done by Brother to stop people using generics, on the bottom right side of each test sheet, no matter how unreadable the black ink was, there would be a perfect printing of what looks like some type of serial number. Every time - that printed fine. Even when you could not get one word to print proper on a sheet of paper and even when no black ink was showing up with the coloured inks, this line on the page came out perfect every time.It reached a point where I was about to take down and use a replacement printer I bought about a year ago when I thought I had lost the CD printer tray for my printer. The last thing I tried and it was just a stupid - it's worth a shot try, was I set the paper setting from normal to Brother glossy paper, and for some STRANGE reason (again I am very suspicious of this) the item printed out perfect. From that point on the only way I have been able to get anything to print proper is to use the glossy paper and highest quality settings on the ink. Blank sheets with any other setting.Set it to plain paper and I get a blank sheet. Do a test page and that number on the bottom right side shows up perfect but nothing else does. (Note: Colour dots do but black don't) Set it to glossy paper and the best photo quality setting and it works fine. Make what you will of all this, but that's how things worked out with this product. I'm beginning to think the issue isn't so much with the ink itself, the generics are likely fine and much cheaper than this stuff, but Brother seems to have "infected" my printer with something causing these issues. Anyone else having nonsense problems like this?I generally don't use the lower quality settings for printing anyway, but the printer USED to do really decent print outs even on the lowest - fast print setting. It is annoying though to have to set up for glossy paper to get a decent print out, especially when that set of numbers at the bottom right side of the test page - all in black ink, comes out perfect every time even on the fast print/test print mode.I order my Ink normally locally from Staples, and this was terrible, my computer says it is FULL of ink, and my print outs come out completely blank, sot he ink is dried out! very disapointed waste of money I will only order locally for INK cartridgesCartouche que j'utilise dans mon imprimante Brother. Je faisais déjà remplir mes cartouches pour les réutiliser. Cela m'a presque coûter une nouvelle imprimante. Les cartouches originales e Brother ont réglé le problème.Identique à ceux du fabricantNeither cartridge was any good. It took me awhile to get the second one to work - so I could print the last 10 pages of my document. The ink sensor windows shouldn't be empty. These were suppose to be new. I have to go buy new ones. I won't order these online again.