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The FTC seems to have got off their ass recently, so maybe it'd be worth it to file consumer protection complaints about shitty printer company behavior. I'm sure HN alone could fill their mailbox to bursting.
Soon they'll have a hidden 5G Internet connection that sends all printed material to the manufacturer, who will then sell the data to advertisers and the state. Are there still any new printers (postscript, laser) that are reasonable? Black and white printing is sufficient.
There's an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/416/ Also, actual example of a smart TV connecting to an unprotected WiFI: https://web.archive.org/web/20210912135232/https://forum.dev...
I have a strong feeling this is somehow related to our local office network, but... any wifi printers we have never 'wake on lan'. If I reboot the printer, it's connected. 30-60 minutes later, it will not respond to any network commands. It's on, and you can go insert USB stick to print, or make a copy on it, and it says it has an IP address, but it's essentially 'dead'. Although it has 'wake on LAN' set (or whatever the setting is).
Brother, but same issue with HP before that (and... someone else reports similar with their printer in their office too). But we have a dozen people plus more devices on the wifi every day without incident. Just something about the printers we've had over the last few years.
Have changed wifi routers at least once during this period as well to no avail.
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This is not similar at all to phone charger cables. My iPhone cables, which are now being made illegal by the EU, work perfectly (including the third-party ones).
If Apple made third party cables not work or work poorly it would be the same. But now they can't do that even if they wanted to. I would be happy to have to throw out ink cartridges I currently use due to a law change if it meant that forever onwards I knew I could buy third party ink and use it without issues. This would also have the effect of lowering OEM ink prices because they would have to compete. Free market…
Indeed, if the situation were different, it would be the same as this one, but it’s not.
Buy an EPSON. Apart from the fact they have separate ink cartridges for each colour, they also don't act like satan.
I replaced it with a €140 Brother B&W laser printer/scanner a year or two ago and have been happy with it ever since. Sad to hear they turned evil too.
Bummer, I’ve been a fan of Brother in the past. Owned two monochrome laser printers that have been great over 10 years of service with not a single paper jam.
If I have something I need to print, I print it at work or at the library. Happens less than once a year. I don't need my own printer.
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If you want to print something once a month you can buy a cheap printer for like €40 – which is probably subsidized because the manufacturer thinks they will earn it back on selling you overpriced ink. But they won't since you will buy a single toner and cover all of your printing needs. Anyway, I don't have a printer. I always just take my pdf and take a walk to a local printing service.
As long as it's not an inkjet printer, since the ink will dry out or the printer will just think the ink is too old after half a year or so.
Buy a Kyocera
If the consumer printers are anything like the office printers, no thanks. The one at my office has to be serviced in-person but a tech almost every week.
sad to hear you have had such luck. Printers... YMMV.