So, I look online - wow £75! What a rip off! The ink cartridges for these things cost a bomb (so far I have just paid up but I will probably start refilling soon) but this is beginning to take the p*ss I thought! The printer literally won't print anything until you replace the imaging unit. At first I thought, "ahhh its ok, it's just a warning, I'll carry on printing until it really needs replacing" - wrong. So once we hit this page count, the red light of death illuminates on your printer and we get a lovely message saying "Warning, prepare new imaging unit". They also have a built in hard coded lifespan of about 5000 pages (i think.). These Samsung printers have a kind of printing "odometer" that records how many pages have been printed using the current imaging unit. To be fair, this component is a consumable, it will wear out eventually causing blurry or streaky pages etc. It's a drum which is an essential component in any laser printer and it is used to transfer ink to the page in the printing process. The other "consumable" on these printers is the so called "Imaging unit". I am not going to cover manual toner refilling here but there are plenty of guides around. So even if you manually fill up the toner cartridge, the printer still "thinks" it is empty and will refuse to print. All of the consumables for these printers (toners and the image drum) need to be replaced when the unit tells you, otherwise the printer will not print. However, they have engineered in some cunning ways to make money. Samsung produce a very nice range of domestic laser printers for the home, they're quite cheap too. It will certainly work for any printer that uses the CLT-R406 imaging unit but I suspect they all use a similar technique to reset the page count. If you just want to know how to do do it, skip to the next step, the rest of this step is just an explanation of how I figured this out! Note that this worked for my CLP-365w printer but it may work for other similar Samsung models too.
This article describes how to get your Samsung printer working again without shelling out a fortune for a new Imaging unit.
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