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Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine, LLMs and printer enshittification (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] Pretzilla 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

My Brother was giving a toner end of life message and refusing to print.

I took the toner end cap off via two screws and reset the gear toggle, and now it prints again.

Cool story.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've got 2 brother printers, never had a problem. I've used Epson, HP and both were an absolute shitshow to setup

[–] Th3D3k0y 3 points 7 months ago

I got an HP because it was remote accessible, and had a scanner with a feed tray as well. It prints maybe 10 pages on a new cartridge. Costs 30 bucks for a new one. 3 dollars a page to print.

Bought a brother LaserPrinter that only prints B&W but at like 2000 pages. HP just does scanning now, nothing else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

There's a menu setting to turn that off

[–] espentan 3 points 7 months ago

It would be fun if there was a menu setting called "turn shitshow off".

[–] Pretzilla 2 points 7 months ago

Yea, but nah. Went through all that no luck.

Resetting the gear toggle fixed it, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I did it, but eventually it didn't. So I gave in and replaced the toner.

I got nearly 3k prints from the starter cartridge, so not bad. My replacement should get like 25k. Given that I had the original for ~8 years, I don't think I'll ever need a B&W printer ever again.

[–] Pretzilla 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Same here. You need to reset the gear under the toner end cover.

Pop the end cover via two or three screws, then rotate the white gear back to 12 o'clock

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah. I'll try to remember that when my toner goes out again in like 10 years.

[–] Pretzilla 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Try it on the old toner if you can fish it out of the trash

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Already sent it in to be recycled. Thanks though. :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah ok mine is newer. I just run the cartridges dry after turning that option off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Probably. I had to enter a special code, which overrode the block on printing, and that worked for a few hundred prints. But then I couldn't override it anymore.