BTW, I’ve had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
If any representative from Brother is reading this, hear me.
DON’T ENSHITTIFY! You see this? You can own the market if you just LEAVE IT ALONE.
Exactly. You can join the club of “Do Nothing and Win” club along with Gabe Newell
They have started chipping their toners, or so I’ve read. They’re still the least shitty printer manufacturer, AFAIK, though.
Let’s hope it’s just for quality of life and not to bully their customers…
Unfortunately, I don’t think it is. I used to use knock-off toner, but after a firmware update, the printer would no longer recognize those cartridges. Luckily, I had bought them on Amazon, so I just explained the problem to customer service and got a full refund. I still love the printer though.
Bruh
Brother
I’m sure even internally their message is that they want to ensure the best customer experience while also protecting their revenue.
Now if ensuring the best customer experience HURT revenue, things get interesting. And by interesting I mean enshittified.
DON’T ENSHITTIFY!
They kind of already did, at least they did in the past.
They fought pretty hard to make you only use their toners, and they would warn you to change your toner cartridges way earlier than it was necessary to do so, disabling the printer if you didn’t. I remember having to put tape over the optical device in the printer that looks at the toner cartridge, just so I can keep using my toner cartridge.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my brother mfc7840w printer, but it’s so weird to hear so much praise for Brother, it’s like there is group amnesia about how they used to be on some of this stuff themselves.
They already started. I think it’s too late
Too late
I honestly don’t remember my printer brand. And that’s a good sign. I bought it years ago, and it now lives under my basement stairs on a static IP via wifi, accepting the on average bimonthly print job that I need from it. Then I walk down, fetch the print, and close the door on it again. I should name it Harry Potter.
Harry Printer
Harry Plotter ?
You’re a printer Harry.
I’m a what???
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I hope it’s at least in standby mode, and not always on.
Nah, it’s been running since '11 and because of a critical network vulnerability that op never patched, it’s been a bitcoin slave since '15. But the paper is always nice and toasty.
dude, airgap that shit
You may not remember the brand, but sounds to me like you got yourself a Brother laser printer.
“Dude, you’re getting a
DellBrother!”I might not know the brand of my Brother laser printer either, if it weren’t for all the other printers sucking so badly.
It runs arch btw
And Doom
Harry Plotter
My sister in law bought a plotter, I should suggest that name for it
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I use a canon… so yeah… better get a brother
Incredibly I’ve had two printers I’ve never really had issues with.
- The brother laser my sister uses with Ubuntu without a hitch since forever
- The canon inkjet printer/scanner that is wifi connected in my flatshare
CUPS picks up my TR7020 just fine. It’s still an inkjet piece of garbage, but it works fine lol
I got a Canon MF3010 laser printer a few years back. It is attached to a print server made out of an old Mac laptop I had. It has been great. I can print to it from anything, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and I have had to replace the toner once since I got it.
I’ve used tons of dot matrix, inkjets and lasers since the 80s. I’ve used them in MSDOS, ProDOS, Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS, OSX, and BeOS. I don’t know how many I’ve owned or how many different OS versions but I know I’ve had exactly 1 printer that wasn’t constantly a problem and its a Brother laser printer.
Okidata Microline dot matrix printer has entered the chat
They’re fine until they get off track with the page perforations. And the ribbons last quite a while, but are technically a security risk
Wow, I think I had an Okidata modem at one point. I haven’t thought about that in a long time.
can you recommend a good printer ?
Get a brother laser. 👨
can you tell me how to kill a High Ganzonian ?
Get a laser, brother. 👽
I would take any laser printer with a scanner/copier that doesn’t have a subscription model that has Linux drivers for all features .
Brother is the only one I’ve found to check all the boxes
My only gripe with it was the scan drivers were not easy to configure to enable network scanning.
Once I figured that out, I made a SANE scan server that has the drivers, and I just point all my devices to that (SANE to SANE) and don’t even need to install the actual scanner drivers. It’s damn amazing.
Oh, the software is actually called SANE. I thought you were just making clear how bad Brother’s drivers were.
Oh, yeah. lol. It’s the Linux scanner framework. It has a network protocol that will talk to other SANE services and allow scanners to be shared.
My scan programs all go through SANE, so you don’t need the Brother drivers on each PC you want to scan from (just the machine that is interfacing with the scanner; in my case, it’s a Docker container on my server).
Learning I could do that was pretty life changing. lol
