Big Brother
Filed Under (Grrr !, Informatique) by David on 24-08-2008
Alors ça, ça me coud le tru. Vous connaissez Brother, la marque d’imprimantes ?
Bon. Sur ce post sur le forum de l’excellent FixYourOwnPrinter.com, des petits malins sont arrivés faire croire à leur imprimante que la cartouche toner n’était pas vide, simplement en masquant un capteur à l’aide d’un bout de ruban adhésif.
Figurez-vous qu’alors il est possible d’imprimer des centaines de pages supplémentaires avant que le toner soit véritablement vide. Bon on sait bien que le gros des bénéfices se fait sur les consommables, mais là, je crois que le terme « abus » est particulièrement approprié.
Am using Brother HL-5170 DN and a TN-540 toner cartridge. The printer decided it was out of toner, even though the last page printed was fine. Rather than run out for a new toner cartridge I used a small (.5 x .5 in.) piece of black electrical tape to cover the sensor hole on the non-gear side of the cartridge. By covering the hole the printer is fooled into thinking the hopper is full of toner.
Replying to my own note, after taping over the toner « hole » I was able to print about 1000 (yes one thousand) more pages before the low toner light started coming on again.
This morning I started a print session and got a « hard » low toner message that stopped the printer from printing (« toner end of life » on operator panel).I removed the cartridge gently shook/rotated reinserted and we’re printing again….
While black areas may not be « fully saturated » printing is still very good — What in the !@#%#$^#%&#$^@%@# is Brother doing to us here? Ok ok … I realize all the money is in consumables …