Brother Mfc 3100c Machine Error 41
are asking about this Error 41 ..... I thought my problem was with the Printer Head . I cleaned it , looked at all the ports on the Holder , got to listening to the motor as it was docking and that's when i get my error message. when it Docks, it would not release it, So I'd open the lid , and manually rotate the gears until the dock released the printer head, i'd move it all the way over , close the lid turn it back on " pull in power" ... And it would move across the slider and dock then give me the error code again... So after a few dozen attempts . this is what i come up with .. this is causing my error 41 , which is a mechanical problem not a printer head issue... Maybe this will help some of you with your problems .. states as follows ...................................................................... ...................... If the cartridges never exit the service station, then the service station may have a problem. The service station cleans the cartridges and then caps and locks them in place when there is no printing. If the service station is not releasing the cartridges then this would explain the "Machine error 41 " . If the service station is working properly, you will hear a motor sound just prior to printing or when the hinged cover is opened. If you don't hear a 'hum' but something else, then the service station motor may not be working. The only sure way to find out is to observe it's operation with the case off. .......................................And in my case , the Motor is grinding very slowly which is giving the printer a low voltage reading , which in turns holds the printer head on the docking station .........................And when i called Brother Help Line , they just told me it was a mechanical Problem to send it to a repair place.. No other help was given ........ If you have any o
you cuss me out, and please think it over before you reply.You didn't lose $149, because you did get some use out of the printer.If you look at your average cost of ownership based on your original purchase price, without figuring in how much you spent on the extra ink, you spent $7.15 per month for the printer.If I assume the extra ink cost you $80, then your average cost of ownership was under $11 per month.So put it in perspective, if you rented or leased a machine it would cost you a lot more than that, and you'd still have to buy ink.When you buy a cheap machine, and $150 is cheap for a multifunction, then you should expect two years service at best, and http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/posts/16849 if it fails at 13 months that's what you paid for.My advice is to check and see if you have a credit card that doubles manufacturers warranties, many VISA cards do, and buy your computers, etc. using it. Then put the receipt in an envelope and tape it to the cover of the machine.People who bought the HP OfficeJet V40's when they cost $250 got several years of service from their machines, many are still running.Then HP got competitive with Brother, et al, and http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/posts/23050 made a cheaper V40 that sold for about $150, and most of them failed after about 13 months of use.In short, when we demand cheap machines, and only buy cheap machines, then the OEM's are going to make cheap machines to keep us happy.Stephen by Stephen on Sep 3, 2005 at 8:33pm Add comment Please sign in to comment interesting philosophical debate. I agree with your general theory sincet we purchased a $200 machine with the belief that it would work perhaps for a 18, maybe 24 months, only to come to the quick and sad realization that we bought a piece of crap from an un-ethical company... I bought into the local advertising hype about Brother office equipment and "projected" that image onto the home-office equipment... bad move on my part. I bought the new MFC in late November, and here it is, not even 8 weeks later and the machine has succumbed to the dreaded "error -41". It did go through about 3 sets of ink cartridges, so that must be about 150 printed pages (and I'm being generous) giving me a cost of ownership somewhere around $2-$2.25 per printed page. I could have hired a typist to transcribe my tape recordings cheaper. My first worries centered around the receipt... could I find it? Meanwhile, I did a quick search on the internet to see what might be wrong and ran across this thread... now I'm worried about what I'm going to do with the in
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