Tom’s Hardware: Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can’t be properly recycled. “The City Council has voted to create an ordinance that will ban single-use printer cartridges that can’t be refilled or that don’t have a take-back program offered by the vendor. This includes basically any ink or toner module that’s bound to end up […]

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Ars Technica: Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink. “Brother’s laser printers have historically worked fine with non-Brother accessories. A YouTube video posted this week, though, as well as older social media posts, claim that Brother has gone to the dark side and degraded laser printer functionality with third-party cartridges. Brother tells Ars […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/07/ars-technica-brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/