HL-EX470W

The Brother HL-EX470W is a color laser printer fed by a two-tier cartridge system. Standard yield is anchored by the TN810BK black cartridge at about 9,000 pages, with TN810C in cyan, TN810M in magenta and TN810Y in yellow filling the color slots one cartridge at a time. The high-yield half of the TN810 family answers to TN810XL: about 12,000 pages from the black cartridge and about 9,000 pages from each of TN810XLC, TN810XLM and TN810XLY. Everything on this page is a compatible cartridge: singles for each slot, black 2-packs, and four- or five-piece sets that refresh the whole machine at once.

Machines from this corner of the Brother range are often bought in twos and threes for different corners of the same business, and the quiet advantage of the EX470W is that it drinks from the same cartridge pool as the six models listed below. A supply manager can hold one family of spares for all of them, shift a spare box from one site to another when a machine runs dry unexpectedly, and never sort out which of three similar cartridges belongs to which printer. The two tiers then do the fine-tuning: standard yield for the quiet machine, XL for the one next to the busiest desk.

Toner Cartridges for HL-EX470W

Which cartridge should you buy?

Decide first whether you are stocking for a full change or for running repairs. A set is the clean answer when the machine arrives or when several slots are low together, and the five-piece version adds a spare cartridge for the slot that empties first. For month-to-month care, singles in the tier that matches the machine's pace are cheaper: TN810XL wherever the page count is serious — about 12,000 pages in black, about 9,000 per color — and standard TN810 where the printer mostly idles. Note that Brother also rates a TN815XL super high-yield tier for this family (about 15,000 pages black, 12,000 per color), but it is not stocked on this page. Compatible cartridges here carry a 1-year warranty with 1-year returns.

Chip, toner and everyday use

Fit cartridges with the machine switched on so the chip on each cartridge is read as it seats; a firm push until it clicks is all the force needed. Judge yields loosely — the figures assume 5% of the page is covered, so a month of catalog work will drain a color far sooner than a month of invoices. If a slot reports empty while pages still look strong, remove the cartridge, rock it gently end to end, and refit it before reaching for a new box. Spares keep best sealed, flat and cool.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which cartridges does the HL-EX470W take?

TN810 standard yield (TN810BK black at about 9,000 pages, TN810C, TN810M, TN810Y for the colors) and TN810XL high yield (about 12,000 pages black, about 9,000 pages per color). Both tiers appear below as singles, 2-packs and sets.

What is the difference between the 4 Color Set and the 5 Color Set?

The 4 Color Set holds one cartridge for each of the four slots; the 5 Color Set packs five cartridges, adding a spare for whichever slot the machine empties first. Offices whose black runs out well ahead of the colors tend to keep the five-piece box on the shelf.

What yield do the standard-yield color cartridges have?

The ratings collected on this page put the standard black at about 9,000 pages and the XL colors at about 9,000 pages each; the standard-yield color ratings are shown on their product pages. In practice, coverage decides: colors last longer under text-with-a-logo printing than under full-bleed graphics.

Will a compatible cartridge be recognized by the printer?

Yes — the compatible cartridges listed here carry the chip the printer expects. Seat the cartridge fully, close the machine up, and the level for that slot resets and reports normally.

More printers that use the same cartridges

The HL-EX470W shares its cartridge family with these models:

• MFC-L9670CDN
• MFC-L9630CDN
• MFC-L9610CDN
• MFC-EX670W
• HL-L9470CDN
• HL-L9430CDN
• HL-L9410CDN