20 Most Recent Brother DCP-330C All-In-One InkJet Printer Questions & Answers

This error is associated with the self test the printer does on the print head during power-up of the printer. Sadly, it is indicative of either a faulty print head or a faulty main control board, neither of which are easy or inexpensive to replace. Unless you can get hold of another machine with a different fault and swap over the print head and/or board (you'll need very good skills and tools to do this) then I'm afraid the machine is beyond economic repair*. * Brother will repair your machine but the cost will likley be more than a new one.

you have a blocked or faulty printhead/ inksystem, you can print an internal print quality check and do deep head cleans, but in my experience this only helps 10-20% of the time. deep head cleans use A LOT of ink if you dont see a big improvment after 2 deep head cleans dont continue as you are just wasting ink

responded to this on a error 46 post by joachim.

hth,
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Brother DCP-330C paper jam

1. faq000559_002 When I try to OCR into WordPad using the ScanSoft® PaperPort® SE with OCR or the Brother ControlCenter3, the text comes out as gibberish. This started after I installed Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Why and what should I do?
   
2. faq000093_012 What is MFL-Pro Suite Software?
   
3. faq002613_000 When I try to scan to OCR I get an error message saying "This feature is not available because there is no OCR Software installed".
   
4. faq002561_000 How do I configure or change the settings of the ControlCenter 2 or 3 scanning options?
   
5. faq000562_002 When scanning to OCR from Brother Control Center3, the OCR application doesn't launch. I have Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed. What should I do?
   
6. faq000563_002 When scanning to OCR from PaperPort® SE, the following error message appears: "System error incurred in external ink module EZText.g32. The OCR server is unable to process the document". I have Windows® XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed. What should I do?
   
7. faq002620_008 Windows® 7 Support Information
   

replace the maintenance unit .

Very good article for what this error is and how to fix it here: brother error code 46

Menu. Black Start(Mono Start), Menu and Black Start(Mono Start) "Maintenance 10" will display on the LCD

Replace the waste ink tank and reset purge counter

check error code (46?)

This error is associated with the self test the printer does on the print head during power-up of the printer. Sadly, it is indicative of either a faulty print head or a faulty main control board, neither of which are easy or inexpensive to replace. Unless you can get hold of another machine with a different fault and swap over the print head and/or board (you'll need very good skills and tools to do this) then I'm afraid the machine is beyond economic repair*. * Brother will repair your machine but the cost will likley be more than a new one.