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Also a satisfied Brother laser printer user. I have the unit blocked in my router so it can't surreptitiously update its firmware and start doing this. I alway
by branon 3y ago
Also a satisfied Brother laser printer user. I have the unit blocked in my router so it can't surreptitiously update its firmware and start doing this.
I always buy the Brother toner cartridges because they're the best quality, reasonably priced, and I want to support the business model of the only(?) decent printer manufacturer left.
All of this said, if I found out the printer was locking out third-party toner cartridges, I'd stop at nothing to defeat the lock, and would only use knockoff toner from then on.
It's an honor system through and through, I hope somebody in charge takes note.
- PNewling 3y ago>I have the unit blocked in my router so it can't surreptitiously update its firmware and start doing this. Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you do this without blocking wifi printing? Are you just stopping network egress from the printers IP address? Edit - by wifi printing I mean on the same network, in house.
- lr1970 3y ago> >I have the unit blocked in my router so it can't surreptitiously update its firmware and start doing this. > Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you do this without blocking wifi printing? Are you just stopping network egress from the printers IP address? > Edit - by wifi printing I mean on the same network, in house. I can guess that their routing table only allows routing from/to the printer's IP in the local network (wired or wireless). Any packet to/from outside world for the printer is dropped.
- branon 3y agoOnly traffic headed towards the router's WAN interface is dropped, LAN communication is allowed unfettered. In my opinion there's never any reason a home office printer with one or two users should need to talk to the Internet.