Brother Black Toner (TN-660)

Great product; easy to install. If the printed page gets uneven after months of use, remove the cartridge and shake it side-to-side to restore quality. I get many months of use from the TN-660 (it's the "high-yield" size). Very happy. By the way, always buy genuine laser toner cartridges; the 3rd party "bojack" units are unreliable and the cost savings is minimal. My experience has been that the 3rd party cartridges (which may be new or "refilled") always exhibit some sort of streak or spots/lines that never resolve themselves. I know better now. (For color inkjets, that's a different story. LD brand work well.)

I have only purchased brother toner cartridges never off brand. I have yet to have a problem with it recognizing brother toners. My reason giving it 4 stars is that I don’t believe you get 2,600 pages. I replaced it with the one that came with the printer so this is my first high yield cartridge for this printer (I have another brother printer/scanner/copier which a high yield cartridge last 9-10 months. I’m a college student that prints power points for my classes and I printer everyday items as well.) I love laser printers for the fact the toner lasts longer than inkjet ink which always dried up.

While we used the cheap knockoffs before, there's absolutely no comparison to the Brother brand toner. The print quality is just much better, because there are no shadows/shadow streaks (as small as these might be with knockoffs) and I'm pretty sure the Brother brand toner will last a lot longer than the cheap knockoffs which often only reach a fifth of the indicated capacity/page count. Even though it may "hurt" to spend a lot more for the original than for some cheap knockoff, it does really pay to purchase the original Brother brand toner if someone is interested in excellent print quality.