Category: Hardware



After a few weeks of trying, found success and can help you if you having been having issues. Let's start

I have one of these damn great things (Brother DCP-J105):




It is always a good idea to at least try the manufacturers website and see what they suggest to fix black on a Brother DCP-J105. The solutions didn't work for me.

So I tried a youtube video that showed a cleaning kit and using a syringe to push cleaning fluid into the place the ink usually goes. I did that with my home made cleaning fluid (alcohol) and a syringe and it didn't really work. Still no black. In that video the British bellend said that if it does not push black ink out the print head your printer is most likely dead. Well joke is on him, all is not lost, it still may be alive.

I search the internet again today and found a post on how to clean a Brother DCP-J105 not printing black:



I cleaned it (with the cleaning option on the printer menu) and printed a few black ink test pages and it is gradually getting more black spots. The goal is to have that entire block coloured black.


I'm now going to clean it 5 times.


I printed a few pages and now I'm back to square one. Not a single black spot.

So I blew smoke up the ink shoot again and nothing.


I printed pages and in 5 pages ink decreased to nothing.

Other Tricks

Ink running low, Ink Not Detected Error

I got this information from this video:

Basically Brother tells you it no longer wants you half filled ink cartridges. To them, half full is empty. Yet more evidence on how printers companies are legally scamming of regular people.

The error will say Printer Ink Not Detected for a specific colour when it is low (but not empty). Now you can't print anything.


