Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals

• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How many cups does it take to transfer the printer over?

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  • _apokalipto_@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you can just use 1 large bucket instead of many small cups. Faster that way.

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• Nevermore9197@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is there a step by step anywhere to achieve this? I’m adept in tech. But don’t have the training or knowledge to just do it

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because it’s a lot simpler and avoids the issue of dealing with printer drivers on all your machines.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I could see the argument that it’s more air gapped this way. Without having physical access to the printer and the Pi, it’d be hard to get any network connection through USB.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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      • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’ve not had a Brother printer so, can’t say from experience. My Epson Ecotank needed a driver to work. Setting it up on an RPi 3B with a CUPS server took care of it.

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• nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is the way.

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