News Brother accused of joining the HP bandwagon of banning third party printer cartridges

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Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals

RepairTuber Louis Rossmann taken aback by Brother’s quiet turn to the dark side.

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I've never been particularly fond of printers auto-updating anything (though traditionally my views have been about the software), and normally I would install a printer firmware update (partly so the user is being nagged by one less thing), this however is making me think that printer firmware updating should be the exception rather than the rule.

 

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