#brotherprinter — Public Fediverse posts

/rant
Brother Printers, along side the Microslop OS experience, is fucking abysmal. To print on both sides, I need a driver. Where do you get the driver? Not the fucking Brother website. Only the M$ App service. Fuck that! I find a copy on The Internet Archive. Installs just fine, then an updated is needed. During & after the update, I'm inundated by adware. Why the FUCK is this experience so shitty?

:AAAAAA: ARRRRRRRG!!!!!!!!
/end rant

#Microslop #BrotherPrinter #TheInternetArchive

Dear #FediTechSupport, anyone got any idea what's going on with this printer?

It's a Brother colour laser (HL-L8250CDN). Sometimes it prints a page or two OK; sometimes I get the waste of toner on the right. Yesterday, it printed three pages and switched suddenly from dark to clear mid-page. Then it printed 12 pages OK. The next six pages were all dark again.

Today, I did a couple of tests. The first page was fine. The second, a minute later, wasn't.

#BrotherPrinter #Printer #TechHelp

A Brother laser printer (a now unavailable cheaper model that uses an extension tray to print both A4 & A5) has a short life-span small supercapacitor instead of a button battery to maintain charge.

Got knowledge / opinions about replacing that capacitor with a button cell battery holder?
And putting that holder in an accessible location?
(Much dismantling is needed to get to the motherboard to access that capacitor.)
#Electronics #BrotherPrinter #BrotherPrinter #BrotherPrinterFlaws #PrinterMod

🎉 Ah, the joy of securing your Brother printer with a Let's Encrypt certificate—because clearly, what every home printer truly needs is a fortress of cryptographic protection 🙄! Next up: teaching your toaster to use multi-factor authentication. 🍞🔐
https://owltec.ca/Other/Installing+a+Let%27s+Encrypt+TLS+certificate+on+a+Brother+printer+automatically+with+Certbot+(%26+Cloudflare) #BrotherPrinter #Security #Cybersecurity #HomeAutomation #HackerNews #ngated

Installing a Let's Encrypt TLS Certificate on a Brother Printer with Certbot

https://owltec.ca/Other/Installing+a+Let%27s+Encrypt+TLS+certificate+on+a+Brother+printer+automatically+with+Certbot+(%26+Cloudflare)

#HackerNews #LetsEncrypt #Certbot #BrotherPrinter #TLS #Security

Looking for electronics repair of a Brother monochrome laser MFC printer in Perth, Western Australia.

Hobbyist or professional.

It won't switch on.

MFC-L5755DW

DM me if they're your secret repairer.

Prefered locations: Near Kwinnana freeway, Nth Pth, Como, Freo, Cockburn areas. But Mitchell freeway, Bentley ... oh anywhere.

#Electronics #Repair #ElectronicsRepair
#Perth #WesternAustralia #BrotherPrinter

Spent the morning, wasted time, on #BrotherPrinter software and firmware.

Consumer and small business IT, hardware and software, need to have a government backed, government enforced, guarrantee of #FitForPurpose.

The garbage that Brother plates up is a #BushmansBreakfast.

2/?
And then there are the #BrotherPrinter instructions.
Like, "When the driver install dialog box says to restart your computer, do NOT restart your computer...."

And the looooooong "Submitting settings ... Please wait." Followed after 5 minutes with "Failed to connect".
And then instructions on how to manually connect the printer that is already manually connected.

Next I try "Enter IP address". 🤮

Pro tip: If you have a Brother laser printer and it's not working on Linux over a network to print but scanning works, you may need to switch it from IPP over the IPP protocol to IPP over the DNSSD protocol.

#BrotherPrinter #Linux #printers #LinuxPrinting

Does anyone have any recommendations for a label printer for use from Linux? I'd like to connect with USB from my desktop Linux PC. Ideally, I'd prefer to not install any proprietary drivers and use all free software. Also, I think it'd be convenient to have it work independently from a computer, so having an included keyboard would be nice, I imagine.

I have a new small parts organizer that I hope to store a collection of resistors and capacitors, op-amps and other small electronics prototyping parts of different values. I would like to print labels for each drawer.

I'm looking at this one: https://www.brother-usa.com/products/ptd610bt

Anyone have any experience with this label printer from Brother with Linux or standalone?

#labelprinter #linux #labelmaker #printer #brotherprinter #freesoftware #foss

@bahnecki habe vor 2 Tagen einen HP ColorLaserJet cp1515n in den Ruhestand geschickt. Nach leider "nur" 17 Jahren.
Heutzutage lässt man von HP besser die Finger, wurde jetzt durch einen #BrotherPrinter ersetzt.

Unexpected Project - replace batteries on printer toner cartridges?

Looks like Brother has gone over to the dark side and started blocking 3rd party cartridges. Sometime in the past, my B&W laser printer (MFC-L2710DW) did an automated update. Yesterday I powered down and moved the printer. Powering up generated the No Toner message. Internet sleuthing revealed that 1) Brother pushed the blocking update, 2) it's checked on a powerdown/up cycle, and 3) 3rd party cartridges have batteries (who knew?).

Current plan: swap batteries for new ones (LR 521 - arriving tomorrow). If that doesn't work, another fix is to buy a new cartridge, remove the tiny 'authentic' PCB from it, and insert that into the old ones. Use up all the toner from them, then use up the 'genuine.'

#UnexpectedProject #BrotherPrinter #TonerCartridges #TechHacks #PrinterUpdate

Printer help please:

If I buy a Brother Laser Printer that uses the 'Brother eco pro subscription' setup, then can I still use third party toner with it ?

Or is the service just some stealth DRM bullshit ?

#Printer #Toner #LaserPrinter #BrotherPrinter