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  High quality Brother Original Supplies really do work out cheaper than compatibles

     
 

Using Brother Original Supplies:

  • Optimises your printer’s potential and reliability
  • Guarantees consistent yields, with high quality output and better performance and productivity from your printer.

    

Brother Original Supplies outperform compatibles, ensuring ultimate value as well as a truly professional finish.

    

With Brother Original Supplies:

  • There are no hidden costs because our toner cartridges get it right - first time, every time
  • You can avoid the frustration of having to reprint pages or documents that aren’t up to scratch - wasting paper, toner, time and money, which can drive up the cost of your printing and reduce productivity
  • You can be sure the quality of your printed documents will still be of a high standard even after many years in storage. See Document durability for more details on Brother Original accreditations.

  

Toner Cartridge Benefit

   

In 2011 Quality Logic Inc. conducted some independent testing comparing Brother's TN-3280 mono toner cartridge against remanufactured brands.  

   

The results showed that Brother was the only compatible brand who could guarantee a consistent page yield. This means with Brother you can be confident you will get the same results every time. 

  

Brother also outperformed all other brands in the quality tests with 99% of its print outs achieving the highest quality rating. On average less than half of the remanufactured brands print outs achieved the same level.  

  

Read the full detailed report 

 

   

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  Bring your prints to life – and give life to your prints

     
  Using Brother Original toner cartridges ensures your printed documents will stay right and bright for as long as you need them. Not only do they give you:
  • True-to-life images with brilliant colour and exceptional detail
  • Crisp, clear text, where even the smallest characters are clearly legible.

     

If you’re out to make an impression you can be sure your printed handouts won’t let you down at presentations and meetings.

 

  • Small businesses and home office users can now easily comply with legal requirements for printed documents. Our black toners cartridges have achieved the ISO 11798 standard, which relates to the durability of toner on the printed page. See Document durability for more details on Brother Original accreditations.
 
Improved Image Quality

Before (2007)

  After (2010)
   Brother Toner Cartridge

 25% Improvement since 2007

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Brother Toner Cartridge   
   Brother Toner Cartridge

 25% Improvement since 2007

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   The Technology - Interested in how we do it?

       
  Brother Toner Cartridge 
  • Each and every Brother Toner cartridge is a finely-tuned piece of engineering specially designed and developed to help you, the user, get the best from your Brother machine.
  • Super-small, uniform, spherical particles enable our new colour laser printers and All-in-One series machines to produce super-sharp text.
  • Each and every tiny toner particle is encapsulated in a thin, hard shell that helps preserve the materials for longer.
  • Using a wax, oil-free technology that achieves a matte finish suitable for professional quality business documents, you can also easily write on your laser printed documents.
  • Brother technology delivers consistent, professional print quality page after page – whether you are printing two or 2,000 pages!
 

   
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  Greener Prints - Striving for Sustainability

 

       
 

While manufacturing our toner cartridges, we constantly work hard to ensure that all our operations meet the toughest environmental standards. All our machines and consumables are designed to have minimal impact on the environment, and are:

  • Blue Angel certified – they save resources, including energy, helping to protect the environment
  • RoHS compliant – like all Brother products, our new generation toner cartridges meet the European RoHS (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances) regulation, and do not contain any heavy metals.
   Toner Cartridge
 

As part of our ongoing commitment to the environment Brother has teamed up with the Cool Earth charity to protect part of the Amazon Rainforest in Peru.

  

In doing this we are preventing deforestation, reducing CO2 emissions and allowing plant and animal life to thrive.

   

Our pledge provides support for the local communities to protect the rainforest around the clock, as they responsibly harvest produce, such as nuts, coffee and cocoa. They will also benefit from resources, such as classroom equipment and solar powered internet.

    

  Brother’s sponsorship protects four kilometres of endangered rainforest. That’s the same size as about 600 football pitches!

   

To find out more about our commitment to protect the environment please visit the Coolearth website.

 Coolearth

    

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  Document Durability - Standing the test of time

     
  There aren’t too many things in life that will still be in tip-top condition after a being in storage for a while! Well, we’ve been to a lot of trouble to ensure that your printed documents will be just that - in great print condition, even after a long time in storage.

  

At Brother, we understand the importance of a reliable archive, that’s why we’ve developed our toner cartridges to ensure that the quality of printed documents is of a high standard after many years.

    

ISO 11798 guarantees the durability of the toner on the printed page. Brother Original black toner has achieved this international standard, which means:

  • Prints using Brother Original toners will be readable even after exposure to light, water, heat, handling and storage
  • Not only will they be legible in the future, but it will also be possible to copy, scan or microfilm documents that have been exposed to light, water, handling and long-term storage
  • For example, solicitors or accountants can be confident that when printing legal documents using Brother Original toner cartridges, their documents meet the ISO standard required.
 

   

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  Inkjet Supplies
 

Brother Originals v Compatibles

Innobella™ Inks and Paper

The technology

Greener prints

Document durability

Inkjet Cartridge Recycling

Creative Center

  Brother Original inkjet cartridges really do work out cheaper than compatibles

       
 

Using Brother Original inkjet cartridges:

  • Optimises your printer’s potential and reliability
  • Guarantees consistent yields, with high quality output and better performance and productivity from your printer.

    

Brother Originals outperform compatibles, ensuring ultimate value as well as a truly professional finish.

  

  • Using Brother Original inkjet cartridges is actually more cost effective than using cheaper compatibles.
  • That’s because compatible cartridges often leak, which not only wastes ink and therefore your money, but has the potential to damage your machine.

   

With Brother Original supplies:

  • There are no hidden costs because our inkjet cartridges get it right - first time, every time.
  • You can avoid the frustration of having to reprint pages or documents that aren’t up to scratch - wasting paper, ink, time and money, which can drive up the cost of your printing and reduce productivity.
  • Our inks (LC980/LC1100/LC1100HY) work with our latest colour management technology to make sure the ink doesn’t lose its colour for over 100 years, so you can be confident that documents printed using Brother Original inkjet cartridges will not fade. See Document durability for more details on Brother Original accreditations.

  

 
 

In 2010 Charisco Printer Labs and Allion Japan Inc conducted some independent testing comparing Brother’s LC1100 Ink Cartridges with 3rd party compatible cartridges. The results were staggering and identified a lot of issues associated with using 3rd party cartridges, such as leaking ink (which could damage the machine as well as wasting ink and your money), excessive cleaning (which wastes ink), ink streaking and blocking the print nozzles as well as the cartridges breaking .

  

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  Brother original cartridges outperformed all 3rd party compatible cartridges in almost every respect in particular longevity, quality and yield stability. Brother framed photographs lasted over 100 years without fading, whereas the first 3rd party brand was unusable after 7 years. Without glass a 3rd party brand had failed after 2.5 years. All apart from Brother had failed after 25 years, whereas Brother lasted four times longer at 99.4 years.

  

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  Read the full Charisco Printer Labs Report. Or read the full Allion Japan Inc. report.  

       

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  Innobella Inks and Paper - The name speaks for itself - innovative and beautiful
       
 

Our Innobella™ inks and photo paper have been specially developed to work in perfect harmony with your Brother inkjet printer, to produce true-to-life images – print after print. Use all three together, and they:

   

 

  • enhance the colour reproduction area
  • improve the red, magenta and green colours
  • produce beautiful, rich prints that will stand the test of time.

  

 

  Photo Paper 10cm X 15cm

Inkjet Cartridge

 

20 pack

50 pack

  A4

Inkjet Cartridge

  A3

Inkjet Cartridge

  All our products have been developed with your convenience in mind, and designed to eliminate waste, save you money by reducing cost per page, and protect the environment.

Our multifunctional machines use an individual ink cartridge system, which means you only have to replace the colour that runs out.

      

They are available in Twin Black, Rainbow Packs (Cyan, Magenta and Yellow) and Value packs (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black). This is more economical and reduces your cost per page.

    

 

Inkjet Cartridges

    

  Brother Original supplies ensure a perfect print every time. By using Brother Innobella™ photo paper (BP71 Premium Plus) with Innobella™ inks in your Brother multifunction printer, you’ll find less ink bleed - just sharp, well-defined images – exactly how you want them.

     

We offer a range of paper types (glossy, matte, inkjet plain paper) in different sizes '10x15cm, A4 & A3'.

 Inkjet Cartridge  

     

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  The Technology - Interested in how we do it?
 
  • Each and every Brother inkjet cartridge is a finely-tuned piece of engineering specially designed and developed to help you get the best from your Brother machine.
  • Using Brother ink and paper together ensures an ink droplet size of 1.5 picolitre. The smaller the droplet size, the higher the capability to accurately place them on the paper.
  • This produces smoother and sharper images, with finer definition – and guarantees an excellent print quality every time.
  • Brother technology delivers consistent, professional print quality page after page – whether you are printing two or 20 pages!
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  Greener Prints - Striving for sustainability

     
  While manufacturing our inkjet cartridges, we constantly work hard to ensure that all our operations meet the toughest environmental standards. All our machines and supplies are designed to have minimal impact on the environment, and are:
  • Blue Angel certified – they save resources, including energy, helping to protect the environment
  • RoHS compliant – like all Brother products, our inks and papers meet the European RoHS (Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances) regulation, and do not contain any heavy metals.
 
   

As part of our ongoing commitment to the environment Brother has teamed up with the Cool Earth charity to protect part of the Amazon Rainforest in Peru.

   

In doing this we are preventing deforestation, reducing CO2 emissions and allowing plant and animal life to thrive.

 

Our pledge provides support for the local communities to protect the rainforest around the clock, as they responsibly harvest produce, such as nuts, coffee and cocoa. They will also benefit from resources, such as classroom equipment and solar powered internet.

   

 
  Brother’s sponsorship protects four kilometres of endangered rainforest. That’s the same size as about 600 football pitches!

   

To find out more about our commitment to protect the environment please visit the Coolearth website.

Coolearth

           

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  Document Durability - Standing the test of time - a hundred-year health check

       
 

There aren’t too many things in life that will still be in tip-top condition after 100 years! Well, we’ve been to a lot of trouble to ensure that your photographs will be just that - in great condition, even after more than a century in a photo frame.

    

 

At Brother we understand the importance of a reliable archive, that’s why we’ve developed our inkjet technology to ensure the durability of printed documents. And currently, only Brother Original Supplies can guarantee documents printed on inkjet machines will stand the test of time.

   

 

One of the main concerns small businesses have regarding ink technology is the need to keep important business letters and documents in archive so they can refer to them at a later date. Brother understand how important this is so strive to ensure our black ink meets the accreditations required.

  

 

ISO 11798

    

ISO 11798 guarantees the durability of the ink on the printed page. Brother is the only inkjet printer manufacturer that can offer ISO 11798 certified machines on 'entry level’ inkjet products for the small business and home office market.

   

 

Brother Original LC980, LC985, LC1100, LC110HY, LC1220, LC1240 & LC1280XL black ink has achieved this international standard, which means:

  • Prints using Brother Original inkjet cartridges will be readable even after exposure to light, water, heat, handling and storage
  • Not only will they be legible in the future, but it will also be possible to copy, scan or microfilm documents that have been exposed to light, water, handling and long-term storage
  • For example, solicitors or accountants working from home and in the office can be confident that when printing legal documents using Brother Original ink cartridges, their documents meet the ISO standard required.
 
 
 

PTS Certification

   

We understand our customers’ needs intimately, and particularly those of professionals in the legal and economic sectors.  

 
 

 

So we have tested our black inks with the Paper Technology Specialists (PTS), and have achieved PTS certification on our black (LC1100HY and LC1280XL) inks in conjunction with our A3 BP60 matt and A3 BP60 plain papers.

 

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PTS accreditation is particularly important to solicitors, accountants, notaries and advocates, because it certifies the inks’ permanent, archive and forgery-proof characteristics.

  

 
 

ISO 9706

   

Our BP60 matt and BP60 plain papers have been developed to comply with ISO 9706, which specifies the standards required for paper used for permanent documents.

 

   

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  Creative Center - Perfect for free home and business printing

 

    

The Creative Center has great features for the home user. It gives you the ability to create and customise greeting cards, calendars and scrapbooks. Customising saves you time and money and adds that personal touch.

 

Additionally you can print Magic Eye, Photographs, Sudoku & Kakuro puzzles and take part in Origami School!

   

Business tools are also available to help make your life easier and save costs. You can create and customise business posters, mailers and brochures. Perfect when you need to create a good impression!

  

To start creating your own home and business templates please visit the Creative Center Site 

 

    

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