submitted 9 months ago by crossmr@kbin.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Piracy adjacent here. We have a printer, colour laserjet, that is from another 'region', was a really nice printer and we bought it just before moving and decided to bring it. There is an equivalent printer here with the same cartridges but we've found out they're 'region locked'. Brand is HP/Samsung.

I was wondering if anyone knows if third party cartridges which work around the chip also work around the region protection? We can actually region reset our printer, however 2/4 toner cartridges still have quite a bit in them so we'd like to use those up completely before switching.

Anyone know much about this?

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[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Another +1. Brother does make garbage printers in some cases, but their laser printers have been great.

[-] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Another another +1 here. Does that make it +3 now?

We don't print a ton so we bought a basic monochrome Brother laser printer/scanner and used the included demo toner cartridge for almost two years. When that ran out, we swapped it for one big knockoff toner cartridge over four years ago and it's still printing like a champ.

Pro tip: if a Brother printer says it's out of toner, it's only estimating this based on the number of pages printed. You can override it (at least in every model I'm familiar with) and keep on printing.