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    Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer (tesseract.dubvee.org)
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    BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.

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    [–] pip1@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I don't know, my Brother printed definitely has DRM/lock-in toner cartridges. And if only one of them gets too low the whole thing stops working. Still can't get double sided to work reliably

    So I call bs on their fandom

    [–] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    It stops working until you walk over to it and reset the toner state to full, then it works fine.

    At least, that's how mine manufactured 2 years ago works.

    [–] pip1@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    No luck for me, what is your model out of interest?

    Only success I've had with using non Brother toner is swapping the small chip at the end of the 'fake' cartridge with an old 'genuine' one

    [–] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    MFC-L3770CDW

    If you're using 3rd party toner, yeah, you gotta swap the little chip, but you can run the toner well past when the printer thinks it's empty by following the reset process: https://www.tonerparts.com/blogs/brother-1/how-to-reset-the-toner-cartridge-for-your-brother-mfc-l3710-3730-3750-and-3770 . It is very fiddly getting to that menu the first few times, but once you've got the hang of it it's pretty straight forward and lets you just keep rerunning the same toner (or 'toner' if you're swapping the chip) indefinitely. For what it's worth, given the longevity of the drums, I've found it easiest to just buy the Brother toner (it's only like 2-3 dollars more expensive than the 3rd party where I am, and is available in stores locally vs having to order from Amazon) and just run them until they're dry by resetting them 2-3 times before replacement.

    Edit: Oh, I forgot to mention: print quality does start to degrade significantly after the reset about 1/3rd through the second 'tank' each drum provides. We use the printer primarily to print off sewing patterns, so this doesn't matter until it's illegible for us, but depending on what you're using it for that may be worth keeping in mind when you're resetting them instead of getting new ones.

    [–] pip1@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

    Hey that's really helpful, thanks for sharing! Brother toner is about 3x more expensive for me.

    I have HL- version of same model. Doesn't have exactly the same toner options as in the link, but I've spotted a 'Reset' button hidden up the 'Toner->Calibrate' menu. Strongly suspect that'll do the job!

    The chip transfer thing has caused me issues in the past though, with the printer refusing to accept the toner even after switching them.