Recommendations for a color, full duplex, laser printer?
Another printer company (Brother) has fallen to the allure of “remote disable” if they object to you using your own device in a way they don’t like: trying to self-service, use third party inks, whatever. It’s at their discretion. Given printers are the sorts of devices to which you tend to want to have network access, preventing this is a lot of work.
I’ve been looking at color duplex laser printers, and Brother has been at the top of the list, until they recently announcement that they’d disable printers using third party inks.
BIFL to me implies that the company isn’t going to actively sabotage self-service, or restrict your usage of the thing, so I think this is an appropriate question for this c/.
This doesn’t help you as it’s not colour, but a few days ago I found out that HP, of all people, make a toner tank printer that takes powdered toner https://www.hp.com/za-en/printers/laserjet-tank.html
My mono Brother took powdered toner. It still gets everywhere if you turn it upside down, which is what happened to mine. I’m just glad it all stayed in the box.
I was young, and we were moving across country for a job; not only was I ignorant about needing to prep the printer with special steps, but it would have been low on my priority list amongst all of the other chaos.
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