• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    If you buy whatever Brother laser printer, the ink doesn’t dry up and you never have to print anything anyway. It’s like $100 and the cartridge lasts forever.

    And also; don’t print. If you’re a developer, put in the css that says:

    @media print { body,html {display:none;} }
    

    That might not completely do it because it’s a joke but slap !important or whatever wherever you want.

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      3 months ago

      Brother invalidates its laser cartridges after a certain number of revolutions irrespective of how much toner is left. You used to be able to override this manually but they removed that in a software update recently. Am livid. If you know different do you mind sharing what model you have?

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        There is an official way to override this. In mine it’s pressing 7 times some button. I can’t

        Remember what it’s called, but it’s in the manual. The mode essentially lets you print until the cartridge is empty

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          That’s what I used to be able to do. It was pressing the back and cancel buttons in some combination brought up a hidden menu where you could reset the toner levels. You can still bring the menu up on mine but now it ignores any reset you do.

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        3 months ago

        I mean if you are a pretentious asshole worried about stinky users stealing your precious content…

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            3 months ago

            TIL the scope of a conversation can never include anything that wasn’t in the original post. I can’t imagine how boring your conversations must be irl.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It’s a joke, dog. It makes it so the page comes out white when printing. It’s not something anyone should actually put in their code.

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      3 months ago

      Seriously though.

      Bought an old second-hand Brother printer a while ago and couldn’t be happier.

      Model is like 10 years old, yet all spare parts and cartridges as well as just toner are readily available and the printer is perfectly fine (damn how precise laser printers are!).

      They just make it happen.

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        3 months ago

        I was sold on laser the minute I had to print something after a month of not needing to and it just popped out before I could get to it (thanks for AirPrint/wifi printing). My old inkjet would’ve been dried up and had to be cleaned taking like 10 minutes and wasting paper. Yeah, laser is the only way to go.

        We just print photos from Walgreens or Shutterfly if we need quality color photos. Super cheap and I don’t have to maintain the equipment. Although about the only photo printing we do these days is large for the wall on glass or canvas.

        Our favorite photos are also displayed on our living room AppleTV’s screensaver. We just favorite them in the Photos app and they automatically show up. My parents are used to seeing our favorite photos from vacations when house sitting before we’ve even told them what attraction we’re doing. Best feature ever.