Comment on You didn't bought it you rented it!

• empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, some of their firmware updates started breaking aftermarket toner cartridges and support said “that sucks” like it was very intentional. It seems constrained to a few of the MFC color models more than anything tho I’ve never had any issues other than bad wifi modules in the b&w home office lasers. Which if you’re using wifi on a printer that’s your own damn fault lol

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  • Zink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Eh, I am all about wired networking wherever I can, but my awesome old Brother laser printer gets used like once per month or two, and it lives off in a far corner of the house where it isn’t taking up valuable space. Plus it could work with a tiny fraction of the LAN bandwidth available to it.

    On wi-fi it stays, lol. I think I may have had to reconnect it once in the decade+ we’ve had it. Otherwise, the printout is ready before I can even walk to the printer (unless it has a ton of pages, naturally).

    I don’t even know how old it is at this point. I just know it’s over a decade because I didn’t buy a third party toner cartridge until 2014.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m not sure whether this is shenanigans or an actual problem Brother is managing here. The post does mention there are problems with incorrect response to temperature management with the unoriginal cartridge, which again could theoretically cause harm.

    I honestly wasn’t aware unoriginal cartridges were a thing for Brother printers, since the originals tend to be quite reasonable.

    But to continue using the unoriginal cartridges he can as the answer states, use BRAdmin to downgrade the firmware.

    So it’s not like Brother is attempting to take control of your printer like HP likes to do.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you avoid firmware updates? Are there domains that need to be blocked to prevent them?

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    • empireOfLove@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes the firmware updates are only voluntary. The driver will sure nag you to do them but you can choose when and what version easily.

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