How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges

Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by jnxx on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:26AM (#25046972)

Only problem with Brother on Linux seems that they do bot distribute drivers in source code but a binary-only Debian package. So, while they seem to have a good reputation for Linux support, there is still lots of room for improvement.

Ah, and also on the newwer Brother printers one has to do a complicated configuration menu dance to get rid of "Toner cartridge empty" warnings, in order to do a "Toner Reset", which lets one continue to use a half-empty cartridge. Some kind of fools' tax, it seems.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by floatingatoll on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:31AM (#25047040)

Why do you need a driver? I thought basically every 2020 printer - and CUPS - supported AirPrint.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by adrianmonk on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:37AM (#25047871)

Thanks. This is useful info.

Brother's site says my printer does support AirPrint. And through the printer's internal web server, I can see under Network -> Protocol that AirPrint is there and enabled.

I have the binary blob driver installed, so I guess this explains why two entries appear for this printer under Printer settings in Ubuntu.

So, a minor mystery is solved, and I now see that I have the option of removing this driver.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by dn3500 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:33PM (#25048533)

I just last week got a new Brother printer and went through the process of installing the proprietary driver, which for some reason requires the 32 bit version of libc. I had ignored the "Airprint" option because I assumed it had something to do with wireless printing. Apparently it did originally, but now it has more to do with driverless printing. So yes, thank you.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by pkaye on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @02:02PM (#25049941)

I have a Brother MFC printer on my network and my Ubuntu has it popping up automatically after install. No drivers were needed. Installing on Windows takes more work.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by floatingatoll on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:42AM (#25047918)

Ah! Yay!

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by Spivak on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:49AM (#25047255)

And basically every printer natively supports PostScript and PCL which are "almost generic" but can come with a ppd file that has your printers specific options and error codes.

And I'm seeing lots of printers come with native PDF/DVI support which is nice.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by numpad0 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:52AM (#25047302)

For features other than printing A4 business documents in Fast quality? Photos, CD-R, model making decals etc often require proprietary Windows drivers to do right.

For printing academic research papers in reverse page order to hand staple and read, indeed you don’t need drivers.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by tinus_hn on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @01:00PM (#25048898)

Is there Linux support for printing to AirPrint printers though?

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by yrro on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @12:04PM (#25048174)

Recent printers feature 'IPP Everywhere' which are 'driverless'.

Brother's proprietary garbage driver is not needed for their older printers; there's a reverse-engineered 'brlaser' driver that you can use instead.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by Unklejoe on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:42AM (#25047167)

I never had to install any drivers. It all just worked.

To be honest, I have no idea how. It just shows up as a network printer.

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Re:How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges by thescriptkiddie on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @11:49AM (#25048003)

I have an older model brother, but it requires no drivers on Linux. You just set it up as a generic postscript compatible printer in CUPS.

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