The OEM Brother DR250 laser drum unit is professionally designed to produce the highest quality printouts for your Brother laser printer. The brand new DR250 is an ideal choice laser drum unit for your Brother printer. Brother DR250 laser drums deliver excellent, dependable results, page after page. You can depend on Brother DR250 drum units.DCP-1000, IntelliFAX 2800, IntelliFAX 2900, IntelliFAX 3800, IntelliFAX 4800, MFC-4800, MFC-6800, MFC-9030, MFC-9160, MFC-6600
Frequently Asked Questions
Every page from my IntelliFAX has streaks down it — could the drum be the cause?
It is the prime suspect. The DR250 is the imaging drum inside Brother's fax-era machines: toner powder is drawn onto its surface in the shape of the page, then transferred to paper. When that surface wears or scores after years of service, the symptoms are exactly what you describe — streaks, repeating marks, grey shading where the page should be white. A fresh toner cartridge will not cure them, because the toner was never the problem.
Is the DR250 the same thing as a toner cartridge?
No, and confusing the two is expensive. The toner cartridge holds the powder and empties relatively quickly; the DR250 drum holds no toner at all — it is the precision surface that forms the image, rated at 12,000 pages, and it stays in the machine through several toner changes. You replace the drum when print quality defects trace back to it, not when the machine reports toner low. This listing is the drum unit only.
Why does a drum for such old machines cost $298.23?
Honestly assessed: it is a low-volume genuine part for a discontinued generation, and Brother prices it accordingly — against a $417.52 list, our figure is already well reduced. Spread across its 12,000-page rating the DR250 works out near 2.5 cents a page for the imaging surface. Whether that is worth spending depends on the machine: for an IntelliFAX still handling daily faxes, a genuine drum restores it for years; for a machine at death's door, no drum is a good investment.
How will I know the drum is at the end of its 12,000 pages?
This generation mostly tells you through the prints rather than a countdown. Watch for marks that repeat at the same interval down every page, background shading that cleaning does not shift, and output that looks tired despite a healthy toner cartridge. Those are the DR250's retirement signs. Fitting the new drum and resetting the machine's drum counter, as the manual describes, returns the platform to counting from zero.
What are the return and warranty terms on this drum?
The DR250 can be returned within 30 days of delivery in all cases — full terms on the shipping and returns page — and it carries Brother's manufacturer warranty as genuine OEM stock. We dispatch from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia or California, and support hours are Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM CST if you want help confirming the diagnosis before you spend.
About This Genuine Brother DR250 Drum Unit
The DR250 is the genuine drum unit for Brother's IntelliFAX-era platform: a 12,000-page rated imaging surface at $298.23 against a $417.52 list. It contains no toner — it is the part that decides whether every page comes out clean — and it is the correct cure when streaks and shading survive a toner change on a DCP-1000, MFC-6800 or their siblings. The platform's toner cartridges and other supplies are in the Brother range at Clever Supplies.
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