Everybody gets so mad about this because a lot of printer vendors go out of their way to force you to not use materials or resources that you purchased, and pre

Everybody gets so mad about this because a lot of printer vendors go out of their way to force you to not use materials or resources that you purchased, and presumably the only reason is for them to make more profit. It would be one thing if the printer had a red flashing button that you had to push to override the forced stop (i.e. an explicit, vendor-approved method of opting out of quality in favor of using up something you paid for). Some product owners are fortunate enough to have (generally accidentally) selected products that can be overridden via vendor-unapproved hacks. While it's quite benevolent that companies like Brother choose to give us "great printers for less than $100", I don't feel that they're beyond reproach for selling me a container of liquid or powder at an exceptionally high price and telling me i can't have the last 5-10% of it for any reason. It absolutely is infuriating to have a printer that is fully capable of printing a sheet of paper, except that it has been programmed not to.