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Hm, I feel Brother was the last brand which didn't do that, are there any alternatives?
Oh, that article is also from 2019
I bought a new Brother laser printer in 2021 and it has no problem with third party toners.
I actually had a little bit of a panic attack because I just bought a shit tonne of toner for my Brother and I was afraid I might get locked out of it, but I just bought this printer last year and it's not giving me any hassle with third party toner.
I would still turn off auto updates.
I would never let a printer be connected to the outside internet unless there was a specific remote printing option I needed that couldn't be done over remote desktop.
I love my Brother, that thing has been a tank, but it's never going to get to know the world exists out of my office.
Does it have a USB port? Use that instead of the network interface.
U can deny internet acces from your modem settings, it will still be connected on your home network. The best of both worlds
Yeah, luckily mine still has both, it's an older model I found as new old stock. The one it replaced was network only, and I had to have a long talk with the router about never letting it play outside.
I would assume that most people have more than one device at home from which they'd like to print like a smartphone or tablet in addition to their laptop.
wtf. well. I guess I'll have to block this user just in case it's a spam bot.
I don't think there's any point on spamming articles just for points since there's no algorithm that would weight their future posts higher. Please just assume the poster had good intentions and found it interesting and wanted to share.
Thanks for sharing an optimistic opinion. That said I still believe there's a market for accounts that seem real for astroturfing purposes
changed it to a link at the bottom of the post because people were confused, I linked to the last time brother was caught doing it by "press" but all the most recent examples are on Reddit, and I wont drive clicks to Reddit.
Yeah I linked it because it was the best one I could find that was not Reddit.
I’d recommend the Epson EcoTank series. They don’t use cartridges, the ink comes in bottles and are quite cheap and lasts a while. They are inkjet tho, unless you’re doing lots if colour printing, theyre ok. Not sure if theres 3rd party inks.
My wife has bought 3 of them for her sublimation projects, they've all been great. The only issue I've had is the god damn windows 11 PC she runs that kills the tcpip port I set up, which deletes her color profiles.
How does killing a tcp port delete color profiles?
it removes the plumbus link
Shit. That’s a bitch to set back up again without fresh fleeb juice.
and it can't be just any fleeb juice. It has to be 100% Epson brand fleeb juice
Because printers are manufactured in Hell so of course deleting a TCP port deletes color profiles because why not?
Get a laser printer. The initial cost is a bit higher, but toner is much cheaper than ink in the long run, and it doesn't run dry
They don't. This article is a 4 year old hoax.