The Printer is a multi-functional machine that helps us in multiple works. Among all other brands, Brother is also one that offers us a printer with different models. A printer has different parts and every part is important. One of those parts is the ink absorber which made of sponge. This sponge is used to collect the excess ink that comes out during printing. Sometimes, the ink absorber becomes full and it becomes unable to absorb the ink. When this ink absorber of your brother printer becomes full then the error 46 occurs in your brother printer. To clear this error, you can follow the steps which we have discussed below. By taking help from the team of Brother Printer Support, you can resolve brother printer issues. To talk with the team of Brother Printer Support, You have to call at +1-888-621-0339.
Procedure to remove the brother printer error 46
Put your brother printer on maintenance mode
If you are going to turn the Maintenance Mode on, in the first step, you have to remove the power cord of your printer. Then you have to press the Menu/Start Set button and then hold it down.
By pressing down that button, you need to plug in the power cord. You have to press that button until your brother printer displays the Maintenance mode message.
You can release the button whenever your brother printer displays the Maintenance message.
Restart the purge counter
There are lots of ways by applying which you can reset the purge counter of your brother printer. Which trick you need to apply in resetting the purge counter depends on what brother printer model you are using.
When you have a brother printer with number keypad;
If you have a printer with keypad, in the first step, you should press 80 and then you need to use the down arrow key by doing which you can scroll through the purge option.
Next, to this step, you have to press 2783 after which you have to enter the number which is in beside the word purge.
Now, you can press the Stop button and exit menu
After that type 99 and then you can restart the machine to exit.
If you have a printer without a number pad
If you have a brother printer without a number pad then you should follow this method. In this method, first you need to turn the Maintenance mode and for that, you can follow all the steps mentioned above, but you don’t have to follow those steps which need to do with numbers. To perform those steps, you have to use up and down button to scroll through numbers.
In the first step, you have to go to the 8 and then press OK. After that go to 0 and press OK.
In the next step, you need to go to the purge option after which you have to enter the numbers 2, 7, 8, and 3 so that you can set the purge counter to 0000.
When you have finished the process, you can easily clear the error 46 from your brother printer. Brother Printer Support team is also there to help people in resolving brother printer issues.
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