Customer Rating: 
Summary: Excellent product
Comment: Though I haven't yet had the opportunity to open the unit I purchased from Amazon.com, this is only because the drum included with my MFC-4800 (the same model, DR-250) has lasted far beyond the rated 20,000 pages. I expect the one I bought to live up to this spectacular performance, as it seems printer items never deliver the number of pages they have to.
Customer Rating:
Summary: drum-med out update
Comment: Since Amazon doesn't allow a person to write two reviews about one product, I am doing this review about the drum that goes with the Brother DCP-1000. In my review two years ago about the DCP-1000, I raised questions about the drum, which is the DR250. Since then I did replace the drum and also used only genuine Brother toner cartridges, and I have gone through three cartridge replacements (over 7,000 pages) without any print output problems. I have also complained to the company that made the toner refill that I had used on the first drum, and they have given me a full refund. Based on my experience, it seems that the Brother drum and replacement toner cartridge system results in a lower cost-per-page printed than similar laser printers using integrated drum-and-toner cartridges.
Summary: Excellent product
Comment: Though I haven't yet had the opportunity to open the unit I purchased from Amazon.com, this is only because the drum included with my MFC-4800 (the same model, DR-250) has lasted far beyond the rated 20,000 pages. I expect the one I bought to live up to this spectacular performance, as it seems printer items never deliver the number of pages they have to.
Customer Rating:
Summary: drum-med out update
Comment: Since Amazon doesn't allow a person to write two reviews about one product, I am doing this review about the drum that goes with the Brother DCP-1000. In my review two years ago about the DCP-1000, I raised questions about the drum, which is the DR250. Since then I did replace the drum and also used only genuine Brother toner cartridges, and I have gone through three cartridge replacements (over 7,000 pages) without any print output problems. I have also complained to the company that made the toner refill that I had used on the first drum, and they have given me a full refund. Based on my experience, it seems that the Brother drum and replacement toner cartridge system results in a lower cost-per-page printed than similar laser printers using integrated drum-and-toner cartridges.