Brother may be locking out 3rd party printer cartridge via forced firmware upd
Brother may be locking out 3rd party printer cartridge via forced firmware upd
www.tomshardware.com 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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Been this way for years now. I had to roll back my firmware using their proprietary maintenance tools and then force it not to update. New printers are probably worse since mine is several years old.
I have my brother isolated from the internet on its own vlan