hedge@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years agoWe must end the tyranny of printers in American lifewww.washingtonpost.comexternal-linkmessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareGhostMagician@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoIs the firmware update something that needs to be manually done or do I have to live in fear of my brother updating on its own?
minus-squareinfinitevalence@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agohttps://www.therecycler.com/posts/new-firmware-updates-affect-aftermarket-cartridges/ https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mfc_firmware_update_nongenuine_toner_now/ Sorry for the reddit link but there is still so much useful info there.
minus-squareGhostMagician@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoHere is an archive link https://archive.li/CYIkm I’ve never got a prompt for a firmware update and just used whatever generic drivers was automatically supplied. Might be in luck with being an older model.
Is the firmware update something that needs to be manually done or do I have to live in fear of my brother updating on its own?
https://www.therecycler.com/posts/new-firmware-updates-affect-aftermarket-cartridges/
https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mfc_firmware_update_nongenuine_toner_now/
Sorry for the reddit link but there is still so much useful info there.
Here is an archive link https://archive.li/CYIkm
I’ve never got a prompt for a firmware update and just used whatever generic drivers was automatically supplied. Might be in luck with being an older model.