Brother DR645CL Original Drum Unit 30000 Pages

Restore Print Quality Across All Four Colours

The genuine Brother DR-645CL drum unit carries all four toner colours and is rated for approximately 30,000 pages at one page per job, or 50,000 pages on three-to-five page jobs.

When print quality starts to fade, banding or repeating marks appear, or colour registration drifts, the drum is usually the cause rather than the toner. The DR-645CL is the single four-colour drum unit for the Brother HL-L8430CDW and the MFC-L8730CDW, MFC-L8930CDW and MFC-L8970CDW, so one part restores all four colour channels at once.

Brother quotes drum life two ways because job length genuinely changes it. Short one-page jobs cycle the drum far more often per sheet, which is why the rating is approximately 30,000 pages at one page per job but around 50,000 pages when work runs three to five pages at a time. Offices printing mostly multi-page documents will typically see the higher figure.

It is an end-user replaceable part, so there is no service call – the unit slides out and the new one goes in. Using a genuine Brother drum keeps the imaging geometry exactly as designed, which is what prevents the streaks, ghosting and colour misalignment that come with mismatched third-party parts, and protects the machine’s warranty position.

Suits these Brother printers

• HL-L8430CDW
• MFC-L8730CDW
• MFC-L8930CDW
• MFC-L8970CDW