Colour cartridges full but not printing

Here is the troubleshooting steps to fix the brother printer is printing completely blank pages windows 10

1.     First of all, you should restart the devices, and then give a print command.

2.     Let’s cancel all print command, and then visit the printer properties, let’s see if your printer is showing available in the queue or not?

3.     Most of the time, people are getting the blank page from their brother printer due to the ink cartridge issue, so you need to assure that your printer has enough ink to print a text on the paper, if it doesn’t have enough ink, you may replace the ink cartridge as well.

4.     Apart from this, you may have the ink cartridge issue due to the installation issue, so you should uninstall the ink cartridge and reinstall the cartridge again. now give a new command, let’s see if your printer is allowing you to print a document or not?

5.     Sometimes, you may be getting the blank pages as an output due to the driver issue, whenever your printer is not printing the documents, you should take out the driver from your pc, and install a new driver on your pc.

6.     After using the above steps, if your printer is not allowing you to print anything, I will suggest you to factory restore your printer, and then reconfigure it.

Aloha a nui loa! From years of repairing and working with printers:

Leaving the printer in sleep mode to run cleaning cycles is not a good idea. Here's why:

You do not want the printer to do these cleaning cycles. The more it does this, the more chance the ink will clog the nozzles. TURN IT OFF at night or when not in use for long periods. Also, by running so many cleaning cycles you run the risk that the printheads will clog up even more than it would if it runs the sleep mode cleaning cycles. You should only do as many as the manual claims (usually 4 or 5) preferably only 3.

Make sure you print color every week or so. The less you print color the more the ink will dry out and clog those nozzles from lack of use.

When the printheads don't get better with cleaning cycles. You might try a Power [Exhaust] Purge in Maintenance mode. When that fails (this can also render printheads useless so only do this ONCE), you can try to manually clean the printheads (since they are permanently installed and only completely disassembling printer will let you fully access them). WARNING - If the pwr surge cleaning works, do not run a regular cleaning cycle because you may completely lose one or more colors. After that, other than a manufacturer repair (UGH too much $$), a manual cleaning is your only hope.

it’s NOW 2021 MY BROTHER MFC-J425W didn’t print out I never use this printer I always us my DELL LED array Laser printer but that failed now after 10 years. I got the brother working again I just used a plastic straw and some 1 sheet of paper rolled up. So the ink won’t shoot into my face. I use a lot of air from my lungs and no need to buy a can of compressed air. After a few have blowing and then a couple of cleanings it’s printing again….New color laser ethernet/wireless printer is on it’s way in the meantime I’ll use this one.

Have not used printer for a year or so. Got new cartridges and only black came out. Instead of canned air (which I did not have) I just blew with a sraw into the openings. After doing this it still did not print color but I ran through 2 or 3 cleaning cycles and yellow started. After 2 more the others started. Be persistent.

(I have Brother MFC-j870-dw)

Oh I cheated for three years folks!!. I have a Brother printer, old one. The set of cartridges were so expensive for me. So, one day I needed urgent printing. Black was too low. A bottle of writing ink squeezed into the cartridge with a sringe I had used for my sick dog’s medicine, simply would not work. I was desperate, it was 1 a.m. and I needed copies for an early appointment.

Desperately I took a tea bag, placed it into a mug, added one tablespoon of boiling water. Mixed it up until the water was black. Squeezed my full sringe into the black cartridge hole. Bingo, It printed green at first (wasn’t green tea), but after about 7 pages, it printed black. Very well! When other colours got short, I used the same method, boiling black tea into the cartridge. After maybe 15 copies, colour was off, but it worked. After several months, no colour came, but I fooled the printer to print only black words for three years! Haha.

After not using my printer in a centrally heated room for two months, it simply prints blank pages. I guess I will risk buying a set of cartridges, blowing the refill holes in the heads and start over. Hopefully I have not blown the printer altogether. Will try to let you know next week.