Do "printer firmware fixes" actually work? And where can one find them for free?
Do "printer firmware fixes" actually work? And where can one find them for free?
Daniel Long
Ryan Butler
bump4 curiosity
Isaiah Morales
What the fuck do you even mean?
You mean a firmware update?
Owen Barnes
No, most current printers have firmwares that are programmed to reject third-party inkt/toner so that you are forced to buy OEM expensive shit.
They even have built-in cartridge limitations, meaning that even by filling an OEM cartridge with new ink/toner, the printer will refuse to keep printing, saying that it is empty, and there is no way around it.
These supposed firmware fixes will disable the cartridge-page count, meaning that you'll be able to squeeze out as many pages out of a cartridge as you want and can just keep up refilling it which saves you like 95% of the cost
pic very much related
Thomas Ward
there are these websites that claim to have software that will unlock your printer, like
print-time.net
resetprinters.net
and many others, but to me it seems like a scam.
and I wanted to ask whether that is the case
Leo Jones
Could you make your own firmware or would that require some kind of decryption/fucking with the printer hardware. I know we don't have Xbox emulation because no one cracked it but I would assume printers shouldn't be that guarded, right?
I'm just curious and clueless. Excuse my lack of knowledge.
Grayson Myers
>make your own firmware
nigga I am a biochemist, I have no fucking clue about programming, I just want to print my shit cheap.
But supposedly some "russian hackers" did it and are selling them on these websites.
Lucas Howard
>But supposedly some "russian hackers" did it and are selling them on these websites.
jej you'll get your shit cryptolocked most likely
Dominic Green
hence why I asked for past experiences
see the websites I posted above
Jace Campbell
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Michael Morgan
Just search on reddit desu. You won't get any good info here.
Cooper Cooper
Worked for me on some old epson.
Jordan Collins
>no one cracked it
lol no
problem with xbox emu is the fact that winblows updates fuckup any chances you have at running the emulator cause microshit is all dickwavy about people playing their games on peoples pcs
Julian Richardson
it did?
i request proofs
Grayson Gray
found this. seems a bit less scammy than the other websites. still not buying it though
youtube.com
Wyatt Ramirez
Wow, got any of them firmwares for HP printers?
Daniel Fisher
maybe here?
Joshua Thompson
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Ryan Smith
Just buy a second hand laser printer. I managed to get 2 from work. If you do it right you have an easy to service printer that'll last forever. Plus toner is cheap.
Drivers can be a pain though. I had to do work around on one of them to make it work on windows 7.
Robert Sanders
I already have a laser printer
Samuel Green
Then wtf
Dylan Fisher
bad reading comprehension?
Eli Stewart
I mean how did you fuck up so badly? What printer did you buy?
Jace Martinez
Possibly, but I doubt it.
Especially if you're supposed to run an executable on your machine at any point, probably a scam.
However, ways around printer ink bs do exist, but most are third party ink cartridges that always report full.
Sometimes the printer also counts, in which case you have to take it out, do some esoteric ritual with the printer to make it forget, and then reinsert. Those rituals can usually be googled.
The best thing to do though, is to
A) If you don't need color, standard b&w laser printers can be found for cheap used, and aren't bad new. They normally don't have this BS, and even when they do, lasers are so cheap it doesn't matter nearly as much. (But do try to avoid the few models that do this.)
B) If you need simple presentation colors, and graphics, but not photo quality, then a color laser.
C) If you actually need to regularly print out high quality color images, then Google CIS printer.
Logan Baker
Dot-mtrix is still the cheapest method of printing black and white.
Nicholas Cook
x86 is a horrifically complicated architecture to emulate, and console games don't deal well with frequency changes. Nvidia also still refuses to release anything but the barest documentation on their GPU's, even from that time period.
Zachary Myers
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Henry Bennett
Buy a brother laser printer. Laser printers last forever and brother let's you use/refill their cartridges to your hearts content
Parker Bell
You don't have a clue about what you are taking.
Jack Foster
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Brody Davis
People tend to just nigger the cartridges in a cost effective manner. Some of them can have their codes overwritten to appear 'legit'.
Colton Lewis
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Grayson Davis
It's because of how much printer ink cartridge sales are actually worth (billions) and how much effort goes into blocking 3rd party cartridges
I assume that they protect their firmware very carefully, and anticipate that people will try this attack vector. If you were to do this, it wouldn't be easy
Landon Stewart
have printers ever been good.
Juan Morris
?????
>its like none of you dickheads know how2google
Cameron Cruz
The way ink is getting so expensive, it might end up cheaper in the long run to 3D print your own damn paper documents.
Chase Wright
get a good inkjet (brother) with a CISS from aliexpress
Luis Turner
Alright OP, I've worked in the aftermarket cartridge/refilling industry for years. Hit me with your printer model number and I'll tell you what you need to do.