Six Easy Steps to MAKE It Work

If you just stick the cartridges on Brother MFC-J450DW Printer, here's how you do it.



Step 1: What We're Fighting. Brother printers, as you may know, come with a little microchip on the top of the , to "measure ink" and communicate with the printer. This is a thinly-veiled excuse to put a difficult-to-duplicate ID on the cartridge, so you HAVE to use the obscenely expensive brother toner cartridges. The V4ink toner also have such a microchip, that does the exact same function, but hey, it doesn't work in the printer! I wonder why. Aside from that, the two cartridges are almost identical. You'll have to make sure you don't mix them up when you're working.



Step 2: The Breakdown. You'll need some tweezers, or something similar. That's all I used to fix this, was some nail tweezers. Remove the black ink cartridge from the printer, it should have come mailed with one. (It came with only about half ink) on the top, there's that microchip! Gently slide one blade of the tweezers underneath it, turning the blade slightly, like scraping a barnacle off of a ship. Be careful not to push under to the center of the chip, because the underside is where the electric eye is. Carefully take the chip out and set it down.



Step 3: Play It Again, Sam. Do the exact same thing you just did with the Brother cartridge, except to the V4ink cartridge. V4ink used SIGNIFICANTLY better quality plastic, so that one connector might take a bit more work to break. Once you have it free, you can do whatever with it. But before you make it into some fabulous earrings, look closely at the chip. Notice that little notch on the front? That brings me to



Step 4: Prepping the Patient. If you compare the two cartridges, you'll notice there's a little nub of plastic on the V4ink cartridge, that sticks out into the notch on the microchip. Take that little nub with your tweezers and tear it off. It's the better-quality V4ink plastic, but it's still pretty easy.



Step 5: The Transplant. Put the Brother Microchip into the V4ink slot. If you've mixed them up, the Brother microchip is the one that looks like they cut it out of cardboard. The V4ink "third party" microchip looks professional, leave it alone. It should fit nicely into the space made by the other chip, but you may want to check it against another ink cartridge to be sure it lays flat. See if the leftover plastic nub from the first connector fits up with the hole in the microchip. If it doesn't lay flat, try removing more of the second nub, the one that wasn't connected to anything. If all goes well, it should line up perfectly, within a few millimeters of the chip on a normal Brother ink cartridge. (And with those three big gold connectors, a few millimeters is perfectly fine.) The electric eye on the bottom should be aiming down into the hole.



Step 6: Try it out. You don't need glue or anything, and if you want to replace your ink again in the future, I'd recommend not using glue. With your new microchip sorta-firmly wedged in place, push the cartridge back in like you would normally. Your printer should register your little franken-cartridge right away, but if it doesn't. just take it out and adjust the chip again, so it lies like the others.



And there you have it! All ink WORKS. It just takes a little bit more work on your end to put them in.


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