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Was reading reviews for Brother recently. "The printers keep track of every page that goes through it whether or not you use any consumables and forces you to
by _tom_ 4y ago
Was reading reviews for Brother recently.
"The printers keep track of every page that goes through it whether or not you use any consumables and forces you to replace the toners the belt the drum and the fuser regardless of the actual condition of these parts."
And many other reports.
Note: I have a Brother monochrome laser that is great, but it seems like there are no printer companies left standing that I would buy a printer from now.
- knaik94 4y agoMy understanding was that this was more of a stop sign than a brick wall trying to stop you from printing. I have not seen any examples of Brother enforcing replacements of parts in consumer products. Do you remember the model? There is one example of a multi-color laser printer where it complains about not having genuine toner, but there's a few links of firmware downgrades online if you know where to look. My experience is that a, sometimes complicated, series of button presses for a specific amount of times resets the counter and it continues printing like usual. For the model I have the reset procedure is just holding the power button while turning it on for a specific number of seconds.
- _tom_ 4y agoReviews specifically mentioned that this was not overridable anymore.
- vbernat 4y agoI have a HL-4150CDN and that's true it asks for a replacement after a fixed page count but it is easy to workaround this by resetting the page count (https://www.inkowl.com/page/tnreset/ https://www.inkowl.com/page/tnreset/). I am still using it after more than 10 years with the half-capacity toners it was shipped with.
- _tom_ 4y agoAs I mentioned in another thread, people were complaining that there were not longer any workarounds for the artificial limits.