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by dlenski 473 days ago
Yes, with https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd it's frequently possible.

(I've contributed to it. Very useful tool.)
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MostlyStable 473 days ago
That tool appears to be getting the firmware from brother servers. They have removed the old firmware as of more than a year ago (this issue is not new)
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3abiton 473 days ago
Is there anything useful usually in those fw updates?
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wazoox 473 days ago
Probably some dubiously useful features such as a nicer web UI (I never use it anyway), some utterly useless features like "scanning to Dropbox/GDrive", or most probably now some "AI assistant" that tells you how to switch cartridges.
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dlenski 470 days ago
Not in my experience. No user visible changes.

There might be some fixes to bugs

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