1. Press the Ink or Ink Management key on the control panel.
2. Press the up or down navigation key until Ink Volume appears and press Menu/Set or Set.

3. Press the up or down navigation key to select the color you want to check.
   The LCD will display 7 boxes. When the ink is full, the 7th box will be black. As the ink is used, the black box will move to the left towards the minus sign (-).

4. Press Stop/Exit.

2.Check the ink status from the Status Monitor utility

*Windows users:

• Double-click the icon in the tasktray.
  

--OR-- 

• Display the Status Monitor from
  Start-->All Programs (or Programs)-->Brother-->MFL-Pro Suite MFC(DCP)-XXXX-->Status Monitor-->Brother MFC(DCP)-XXXX Printer on your computer.

--OR--

• Display the Status Monitor from
  Start-->All Programs (or Programs)-->Brother-->MFL-Pro Suite MFC(DCP)-XXXX-->ControlCenter2 on your computer. Click on DEVICE SETTING on the left options then click on Ink Level button.

*Mac OS X users:

• Display the Status Monitor from
  Macintosh HD/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities on your computer.

--OR--

• Display the Status Monitor from:
  Macintosh HD/Library/Printers/Brother/Utilities/ControlCenter on your computer. The  icon will be in the menu bar. Click the icon and choose Open. Click on DEVICE SETTINGS on the left options then click on Ink Level button.