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[Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company (youtu.be)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Brother_Ink_Lockout_%26_Quality_Sabotage

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have a Brother MFC-9340CDW that I salvaged from work last year; we replaced it because it kept getting a ghost "paper jam" every time you tried to print something. Turns out the cause is an $18 board that's known to fail. Scanner still works fine though, strangely.

I also have a Kyocera FS-3900DN b&w laser printer from 2006...or somewhere around there. It does the thing, and can even be managed with a CUPS server since it has 10/100 networking.

Now to figure out how to disable automatic firmware updates on the Brother ๐Ÿค”