Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals - eviltoast
  • j4k3@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    My LaserJet is from '08 and still works great with just a USB (or parallel port… lol). It even does an occasional toner transfer or transparency for printed circuit boards. They making 17+ year printers any more

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      5 days ago

      It is nice to have a discoverable printer on the network that anyone can print to from their laptop or phone. I use that feature all the time, especially on d&d nights