⟐ Commented fevereiro 12, 2026 at 22:06 GMT-7

First, and foremost. I am looking for "human" answers. Preferable someone who knows a bit about printers. Not a human, asking AIs for answers. Trust me, when I tell you, they are utterly confused about this belt. The following were all the names provided by various AIs.

1. CR Transmission Belt, 2. Carriage Timing Belt, 3. Belt, Slip Paper Feed, 4. Slip Belt, 5. Timing Belt, 6. Pump Motor Belt, 7. Pump Drive Belt, 8. Carriage Drive Belt, 9. PF (Paper Feed) Encoder Belt, 10. PF (Paper Feed) Drive Belt. 11. PF Motor Belt, 12. Scanner Drive Belt

One of them, may very well be the name of this belt, but I just don't care. I just want to know what it's function is, and where it 'GOES".

Now, while trouble shooting my printer, I found a PURPLE BELT, sitting inside the carriage. But from whence it came, I do not know.

I had multiple issues while trying to change my ink cartridges. During which, the belt appeared.

1. I got an incompatible ink error

2. An error, that I was told 'indicated a paper jam. Which was ludicrous, because there was no paper in the rack at all.

3. It stopped reading the ink cartridges, all together.

4. Some ink, under where the ink casing rests, so I blotted it dry.

5. I tried to run it again a few times.

That is when I moved the ink carriage to check for more ink, and there it was.

It was obviously attached somewhere, because of the shape. The belt had a distinct shape (e.g. a larger-to-smaller pulley ratio). Meaning, it was attached to a larger and a smaller pulley. (in between, it seemed that it went 'under' something.) With a little wear, but not broken/ cracked.

Before you go there, THIS belt is obviously NOT the belt that runs the entire width of the printer (which has grooves). MY PURPLE BELT HAS NO GROOVES.

My Belt, is approx. 4 inch long, 1/4 inch wide, and thin, just like a thicker rubber band.

What stumps me, is that all the the pulleys "that I can see', have no gaps in between the gears, for a belt to have slipped off. So, what I need to know is, where it goes.

Also, all instruction directed to a 'side panel' that comes off. Umm NO! On MY printer. The whole outer casing has to be removed, in order to get the the inner right side, where the pulleys are. And even then, access it hindered.

If you know the function of this belt, and WHERE it goes on my printer, then I would appreciate a reply.

If you do not, then please just pass this one by. Not trying to be rude, just exhausted from dealing with baffled AIs. My printer is in pieces, and I am wishing I still had the brain of a 50 year old.

Cheers

⟐ Answered janeiro 25, 2026 at 20:19 GMT-7

I'm aware that this printer has a 'Deep Sleep' mode. I've turned this off. It goes to 'Sleep' however after a few minutes but stays online when it is already connected to the network.

But after about 8 hours or so, it goes offline.

Restarting the printer establishes wifi connection to the router (the wifi light goes solid green) but doesn't bring the printer online to the home network. This  makes no sense to me at all.

The only way that I can bring this printer back online is by restarting the modem which is highly inconvenient to all the other users in the house which are using the internet as these modems take about 10 minutes to reboot.

I've tried DHCP reservation and static IP (not together). But this offline pattern remains.

I've updated the printer firmware, even factory resetted, but it does not fix this behaviour.

I've tried to bring the printer back online from my PC using both windows and brother drivers. I've opened several suggested ports on my PC firewall and I have tried direct access using the printers IP address and RAW printing protocol (opening port 9100). But I can't get through to the printer when it shows it is offline. As mentioned, the only way is to re-boot the modem.

None of the online PC's exhibit any problem with the modem via wifi. They always stay connected. PCs come back online when restarted, no problem. They do not need a modem reboot any time. So I'm assuming the modem is working properly.

It is wearable if the printer decides to go offline after several hours, but not ideal. But it is not workable if the only way to bring it back online is to keep rebooting the modem every time.

⟐ Answer edited dezembro 18, 2025 at 1:58 GMT-7

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⟐ Answered outubro 06, 2025 at 8:46 GMT-7

Here’s a picture from immediately after a jam, with the foam strip included above the “D1”.

⟐ Commented julho 24, 2025 at 9:43 GMT-7

⟐ Answered junho 23, 2025 at 7:40 GMT-7

Any help would be appreciated.

⟐ Commented junho 02, 2025 at 17:51 GMT-7

⟐ Answered maio 12, 2025 at 16:50 GMT-7

⟐ Commented abril 17, 2025 at 12:36 GMT-7

⟐ Answered abril 15, 2025 at 5:23 GMT-7

⟐ Answered abril 09, 2025 at 5:34 GMT-7

Can anyone advise how to re-instate it, please?

Regards, Pete

⟐ Answered abril 06, 2025 at 6:21 GMT-7

⟐ Answered março 03, 2025 at 8:11 GMT-7

He gives me this message when I start the printer and he doesn't read the original cartridges, he gets stuck in the message, and he doesn't let anything else be done.

The cartridges are original, although they were also used compatible.

Who has the knowledge to recover this equipment?

Will it serve even when it doesn't show the ink level of original cartridges?

⟐ Commented fevereiro 27, 2025 at 12:01 GMT-7

I think I got everything back together correctly, and have taken it mostly back apart and put it back together a second and third time, same issue. When you turn on the printer it says to close the front door. The door is quite closed.

I thought on these the front door close "sensor" was a plastic tab that goes into the laser scanner assembly on the top when it closes. This is still there, looks good, and the laser scanner assembly was not touched. I did disconnect the one wiring connector and the flat cable as those plugged into the board on the right I needed to remove. They are plugged back in, checked that twice.

Anyone have any ideas or know of a front door switch that I dont know of?

⟐ Edited fevereiro 22, 2025 at 21:32 GMT-7

⟐ Commented fevereiro 22, 2025 at 15:25 GMT-7

⟐ Commented fevereiro 05, 2025 at 13:32 GMT-7

⟐ Answered fevereiro 02, 2025 at 17:52 GMT-7

⟐ Answered janeiro 23, 2025 at 8:53 GMT-7

why my printer dont pull papers to print it say error

⟐ Answer edited janeiro 18, 2025 at 20:49 GMT-7