BROTHER Drum (DR730)

Have purchased this unit for future use when the original drum gives out. Seems fine, but it is quite pricey. It is nearly 1/2 the cost of the printer itself. I was tempted to buy less expensive drums from other manufacturers, but did not and instead went with Brother equipment. It seems that it is now the standard not to include manuals with products, and also the standard in the printing industry to be ridiculously proprietary and charge outrageous prices for basic equipment. This is not Best Buy's fault; it seems to be a conspiracy among printing companies to do this practice. It is very important to research printers well. I do not understand how a compatible drum can cost $35, but a Brother drum is $107.

I typically do not write reviews for products. However, I feel compelled after multiple failures with this specific drum. 1) It gets dirty too easily. I constantly have to take it out and clean it or I will have black specs all over my documents. Fail! If you want to print manually...it wont let the toner adhere to the paper...therefore it just rubs off. It is a big pain in the rear and has caused me more troubles than I care to count. 2.) It cost more than the printers I own when they are on sale. I just purchased a new brother printer that uses this same drum. Guess what? Same problems and I havent even had it for 24 hours. I've already had to clean it MULTIPLE times. Brother really needs to find a way to make these better. I love brother. I have a color laser printer that uses a different drum. I dont have this problem with that printer. It is THIS DRUM! Rant over.

First guy was useless & said they didn't have any more toners. I suggested he look in the back since the isle only had enough room for a single box. He fake checked his telephone and said nope. I went to the manager & asked why they wouldn't stock more of these since it's a very good selling printer toner. She went to the back and got one.