I had one printer brick on a 3rd party after the owner updated the firmware- until Brother remotely redid the firmware with a replacement Brother toner (and even then, they charged the user).

The Brother HL-L3295CDW ($369. ... out the extra cash for the super-high-yield replacement toner cartridges. Unlike some competing color laser printers, it has an appropriate-sized paper output ...

Brother’s HL-5370DWT monochrome laser printer may be slow ... comes with a standard-yield, 3000-page toner cartridge. At this writing a replacement cartridge of the same size costs $75, which ...

Brother printers had been lauded before for their compatibility with non-OEM toner cartridges, setting them apart from brands like HP. However, recent firmware updates have deliberately degraded ...

The Brother whatever-it-is will print return labels for online shopping, never run out of toner, and generally be a printer instead of the physical instantiation of a business model. The Brother ...

(There has been some controversy about third-party toner in Brother printers, but it appears it still works fine.) But even though the answer is the same, making sure this information is at the ...