4 Things to Know About the Brother HL-L3280CDW's Toner Cartridges

The standard TN243 black cartridge prints 2,500 pages, while each color cartridge prints only 1,500 pages. That color penalty is steep.

Switching to the high-yield TN247XL black cartridge pushes output to 4,500 pages. The XL color cartridges each print 4,000 pages.

The TN247XL cartridges offer roughly a 3x improvement over standard color yields. That is an unusually wide gap worth taking advantage of.

If you print much color, upgrade to the XL cartridges. The standard color cartridges run out far too quickly.