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Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

"posted by accident, trying to delete now"

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

This sounds accurate based on the user reports. They're not bricking anything, they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Which is weird because one of Rossman's sources claimed that they were on the phone with Brother, asked how to do manual registration, and were told it couldn't be done unless a genuine Brother toner cartridge was installed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

That person was just plain wrong. The same source showed the manual registration sheets under their reddit post.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Link? Where does it say that and how does one do that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

The links are in the article.

I don't know the specific process, but usually it's printing a registration page and then entering the offsets on the printer's control panel.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

....they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner

Man, if only we had a word for disabling critical features in this way.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

If there is one, it's not "bricking", because it still functions as a printer.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Upvoted for understanding the concept of words having already established definitions

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