Super-thin PCB stops the cartridge from counting how many pages you’ve printed.
Neat, and also fuck DRM printer cartridges. Any company that treats their consumers that bad doesn’t deserve to be in business.
The ‘best printer’ category winner every year is whatever Brother laser printer is on sale during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale.
I have an 8+ year old colour Brother laser printer still going strong. Only had to replace the black cartridge for the first time the other week, colors all still going strong!
I can leave it unused for months & then just fire it up & print 100 pages with no problems whatsoever.
Wish I had it back in college/uni days when I had no end of problems with various crappy ink jet printers, even smashed one up I got so pissed off with it mucking me about back in the day.
Saying that, I think I’ve seen comments by others saying newer Brother laser jets aren’t as good?
Once upon a time I’m pretty sure all Brother printers were manufactured by Lexmark. That was back when Brother’s flagship products were their label makers. Which are still terrific. I have one that I still occasionally use.
But I think at some point it changed? Not sure. Most people I have known that had Brother printers would always say they were fine, satisfactory. A nice mid-range and mostly reliable product.
Hah reminds me of back around turn of the century, my company - for some reason - had a subscription to PC World. I started to notice a trend and did an experiment by following and charting two things: their product reviews/ratings, and their advertising.
Not all that many major brands back in that day so there would be an edition of the mag where multiple ads could be found in one issue, from the same company.
Anyway, it turned out that in the reviews of Graphics Controllers, Modems and other peripherals, every month - consistently - the winning pick among the products reviewed just happened to be the brand that spent the most on advertising in that issue! I tracked it across around 6-7 issues, and you’d see literally the same group of products sometimes, and yet different “winners” different months haha. What a joke.
Why would anyone ever buy those extortion machines?? I mean, I guess only the completely ignorant consumers who buy printers in stores and ask “sales” agents for advice. But other than them? Fuck every last one of them.
And the person who figured out how to stop being ripped off for ink just committed perjury actually in writing and landed himself in prison and will be tortured for the rest of his life and not be allowed to reproduce anywhere in the US sphere of influence because Homeland military-masonry says he violated IP.
I bypassed their DRM ink cartridges years ago by buying literally anything other than an HP