The part of this that really makes me mad is that brother use to be the chosen one but they pushed a firmware update and now I have to pry the chips of first party toner and glue them into generic.
I’ve never got a prompt for a firmware update and just used whatever generic drivers was automatically supplied. Might be in luck with being an older model.
Once they get a taste of that market share it’s hard for them to give it up. So they’ll start doing this shit to keep people in their ecosystem. They make nothing on their printers and hope to make it up with ink/toner sales. So they want you on their brand.
Fuck printers, fuck print drivers, fuck toner and definitely fuck fax machines. Watching a nurse print something to fax it somewhere else, then for that person to scan it back in. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. All they do is generate waste.
honestly one of the things I had no idea about was how fucked up windows printer drivers were. I used to think it was just because they were all crap, but then I fully moved to linux and discovered that Microsoft is the issue! Printers just work in linux.
I’m interested, because I’m having the opposite experience. I can not for the life of me get my HP network printer to work with Debian. I’ve added it through CUPS, and it works well for a bit, but then after a few restarts I have to add it again.
I’ve never owned a wifi printer which may be the difference - with all of the ones I’ve used in the past I just plugged them in via USB and they just worked!
Hmm my 4-year-old $100 Brother printer is due for its first toner swap. Generic ones are $20 but Brother owns are like $75. I’m gonna have to see if this applies to mine.
Even the Brother printer I got in undergrad needed electrical tape on the toner sensor so that it wasn’t lying to you and telling you that you needed to buy a new cartridge at 33%. That was from 2008, 2009 tops.
I can decide for myself when I need new toner. I don’t need some service in the Amazon cloud to do it for me, I literally see what the fuck the page looks like when it’s finished.
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The part of this that really makes me mad is that brother use to be the chosen one but they pushed a firmware update and now I have to pry the chips of first party toner and glue them into generic.
Their bottle printers are bad?
Is the firmware update something that needs to be manually done or do I have to live in fear of my brother updating on its own?
https://www.therecycler.com/posts/new-firmware-updates-affect-aftermarket-cartridges/
https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mfc_firmware_update_nongenuine_toner_now/
Sorry for the reddit link but there is still so much useful info there.
Here is an archive link https://archive.li/CYIkm
I’ve never got a prompt for a firmware update and just used whatever generic drivers was automatically supplied. Might be in luck with being an older model.
Once they get a taste of that market share it’s hard for them to give it up. So they’ll start doing this shit to keep people in their ecosystem. They make nothing on their printers and hope to make it up with ink/toner sales. So they want you on their brand.
Fuck printers, fuck print drivers, fuck toner and definitely fuck fax machines. Watching a nurse print something to fax it somewhere else, then for that person to scan it back in. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. All they do is generate waste.
honestly one of the things I had no idea about was how fucked up windows printer drivers were. I used to think it was just because they were all crap, but then I fully moved to linux and discovered that Microsoft is the issue! Printers just work in linux.
Yeah I remember being super confused that my printer just worked without any extra effort the first time I tried Linux!
I’m interested, because I’m having the opposite experience. I can not for the life of me get my HP network printer to work with Debian. I’ve added it through CUPS, and it works well for a bit, but then after a few restarts I have to add it again.
I’ve never owned a wifi printer which may be the difference - with all of the ones I’ve used in the past I just plugged them in via USB and they just worked!
Hmm my 4-year-old $100 Brother printer is due for its first toner swap. Generic ones are $20 but Brother owns are like $75. I’m gonna have to see if this applies to mine.
The older Brother printers are amazing and exactly what is needed in a printer. Nothing more or other BS. Unfortunately, recently changed of course.
Even the Brother printer I got in undergrad needed electrical tape on the toner sensor so that it wasn’t lying to you and telling you that you needed to buy a new cartridge at 33%. That was from 2008, 2009 tops.
I can decide for myself when I need new toner. I don’t need some service in the Amazon cloud to do it for me, I literally see what the fuck the page looks like when it’s finished.
Fuck printers.