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by dryanau
1051 days ago
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Brother rejected my 3rd party toner on the MFC-L3750CDW after an automatic firmware update. Fuck them, I said at the time. Then I bought a far cheaper second-hand Brother printer, turned off firmware updates, and have continued using 3rd party toner. So only kind-of fuck them, I guess, because their printers do the job pretty well. But I am glad I switched to mono, because the colour MFC would have cost AUD$550+ on genuine toner (3 colour + 1 black). Too much for casual usage once a month. |
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Damn, that sucks, I'm happily using my old Brother printer and was thinking about second one. Did it not let you override that warning in service mode[1]?
[1] Brother printers have a hidden menu where you can set cartridge values to different ones than read by printer's sensors. Godsend if you are using very cheap 3rd party cartridges, as they sometimes report their capacity as 0%. The way to access it depends by model, for OP's model I found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6lsUBu1TDg