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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 [see comments] (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Brother deny the claims:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

via https://startrek.website/comment/15279250

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Just connect it to a Server (like a raspi) via USB and share the printer through CUPS

Its a little tedious to set up, but it works

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Why do that when you could just connect it to the LAN and put it on a separate VLAN?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I could see the argument that it's more air gapped this way. Without having physical access to the Pi (or at least SSH access), it'd be hard to get any network connection through USB.

    But personally, I just blocked outgoing traffic from the printer.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because the built-in networking stack on printers is garbage and having to install drivers on every client sucks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've never had issues with networking or drivers with my Brother printer. I don't have any Apple devices, but on Windows and Linux I just use the drivers that come with the OS.

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