MAJ 13/11/15
Solution 1:- Pull out the AC plug.
- Put back the AC plug while holding down the "Menu" button and keep holding it (15 sec): you're entering the Maintenance mode and "error 46" pops up in the display.
- Select 8 by using the arrow buttons, push "OK" and select "0" and push "OK"
- Message 00:00 00:01 OK appears.
- Push the "Mono" button 25 times until you see PURGE: xxxxx
- Select 2, push ok, select 7,push ok,select 8,push ok, select 3,push ok
- Purge counter indicates: purge: 00000
- Switch off the printer, switch it on.
Solution 2: reset the ink counter
- Press buttons OK, Menu, Mono Start one by one, followed by up arrow key four times. this should all be done as short a time as possible, around 3 seconds.
- Enter maintenance mode 80, by pressing the up/down arrow key and set key to select numbers 8 and 0
- Press blue MONO start button to select PURGE which requires it to be pressed a number of times before PURGE appears on the LCD screen of the printer
- Use the up'down key and OK button to enter the reset code 2, 7, 8 and 3 keys to reset the counter.
Press Stop/Exit key to go to root of maintenance mode. - Enter 9,9 to exit maintenance mode
Comments
I love my brother printer and although I have and epson, the brother is much neater.
Thank you
It works!
To the one who posted anonymous . . no need to see purge 00000 . .
if it does not power off . . . just unplug the ac power and put it back. . . presto it works.
I have a Brother DCP-115C and got the message Unable to Clean as opposed to Unable to clean error 46 but thought I'd give the fix a go anyway and it worked a treat.
Thanks again.
Absolutely brilliant whoever posted this on the web.you saved my life I had to print e tickets for a show tomorrow and the printer would not work.Followed your solution and it worked a treat.A very BIG thank:)
Brother is great.
***If it says that you are out of ink, just put some black tape on the cartridge's ink indicator and you'll be able to print much more...***
Thanks so much
you save my money
Good luck!
Couldn't get PURGE to reset to all zeros.
it started working again. Fabulous. Thank you to all who put up these info for free!!
What is your model printer ?
For Brother mcf490cw "unable to clean 46"
This steps will surely works:
1. Press Ok, press Menu, press Mono, press Up arrow(4 times) wait for the word maintenance will display.
2. Dial 80
3. Click Down arrow until you will see Purge XXXX
4. Dial 2783
5. Press Exit
6. Dial 99
ink box is full, but ours is 2nd time already and the purge counter is already 00000, still the machine error 46 is displayed
Try this:
Power off the printer and unplug the power cable.
Wait 5 minutes
Plug back et switch on
Thanks heaps
In my case, Brother MFC-660CN, the sequent of commands is this:
• Pull out the AC plug.
• Put back the AC plug while holding down the "Menu" button and keep holding it (15 sec): you're entering the Maintenance mode and "error 46" pops up in the display.
• Select 8 (by using the arrow buttons=no), push "OK" and select "0" and push "OK" (Using keypad of printer...)
• Message 00:00 00:01 OK appears.
• Push the "Mono" button 25 times until you see PURGE: xxxxx
• Select 2783 and push ok (Using keypad of printer... ever).
• Purge counter indicates: purge: 00000
• Switch off the printer, switch it on.
Bye,
What is your printer model ?
Only snag I had was I needed to enter the code and press OK once at the end not after each number as it appears in the instructions I guess some editions vary.
You have saved me rushing to buy a new printer, thanks again! RG.