Brother LC-985BK Inkjet Cartridge, Black, Single Pack, Standard Yield, Includes 1 x Inkjet Cartridge, Brother Genuine Supplies

Well I've been truly screwed by Brother, or someone. I've been buying these since 2012 when I got my trusty Brother printer (great all-round printer btw, not so great a photos but I get those professionally printed now). They used to cost £19.99 for the set, even up to 2015 they could be found for £22, now the price has pretty much doubled!I've tried remanufactured ones, which at least are reasonably priced, but they have been a nightmare (constant printhead cleaning/realignment required, dry out quickly), with bad quality prints for anything but documents.This inkjet printer ink setup is a racket - you can buy a new printer (by another company, which includes a starter set of ink) for less than the cost of these cartridges now - but that would be a massive waste. What on earth is going on?

Don't buy the cheap imitations, they don't work. I have fallen for the cheap alternatives before and ruined printers. The last ink cartridges that I purchased from Amazon were cheap, but I thought they were Brother branded products. That was until I opened the parcel. After installing them they worked fine for a short time and then the printer kept coming up with low ink messages and I could not have emptied any of the new cartridges. It then started printing in strange colours mainly blue and yellow. and soon stopped printing some colours altogether. No amount of cleaning resolved the issue. Replacing the fake cartridges with Brother cartridges has after some cleaning resolved the problem and the printer is now working properly again. Don't waste your money on the cheaper copies buy original ink cartridges!

This is genuine Brother ink. I only buy genuine, as tried compatible ink before and it messed my printer up so won't be doing that again! I found this is the best price around and I did a lot of searching first. Have spent more on them when I first had my new printer but now I've found this site, will not be going anywhere else. I use quite a lot of ink as I do digital card making and these last a long time, but of course it depends on how much printing I do. Have purchased these a few times and will be going back for more. Quick delivery too. Very pleased.

I usually buy the 4 pack but I have lots of black so I decided to buy the single coloured ones. These are a good price and I will be getting more as I need them until I will need to go back to buying all 4 colours again.

They don't last very long. I bought these in 2014 and then bought another set about 6 months later.More recently I've been buying 'fake' cartridges and they are far superior for day to day printing. Last far longer. Probably wouldn't use 'fake' cartridges for photo printing though.

When I bought this product I thought I was buying a set but it appears that it is individual cartridges because the magenta was in fact a LC970M and not LC985. Unfortunately by the time I came to install it, it was too late to return it. Now I find that the Yellow has only lasted two days and I have only printed four pages during that time! This is seriously poor value for money.

Good quality product, at a good price.

Nothing to say. They do what it says on the packet