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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by kitsunesoba on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:28PM (#28890688)
Even Brother is dodgy, depending on the model. I have a low-midrange Brother B&W laser printer that worked great until one day it decided to stop accepting print jobs, both via network and USB… it just stalls at “processing” and never proceeds. Googling around it seems like people with various Brother models have seen this behavior.
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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by clusterfish on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:54PM (#28890897)
Accidental failures are one thing, deliberately user hostile design is another.
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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by unstatedAnswers on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:22PM (#28891134)
Parent is insinuating this may be deliberate sabotage on Brother’s end, to convince users to buy a new model after a while
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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by clusterfish on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:51PM (#28891384)
It may also be just random failure of some components that were simply costed to be less than bulletproof on their "low to midrange" model. Or a software issue as suggested by another poster. No evidence of any sabotage was presented.
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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by okl on Saturday October 16, 2021 @04:45PM (#28891339)
I once had a similar problem with a CUPS/gutenprint driver. If you are using CUPS, load the ppd from brother.

It could also have to do with the detail/complexity of your document. Intricate PDFs or high-dpi graphics can overwhelm low-midrange printers. (I once had a print job that took the printer half an hour to process.) On some printers you can even install additional RAM.

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