If you are like me, you bought your Brother scanner printer because you wanted a decent scanner and perhaps the odd black and white print. Nothing more. That’s why you didn’t pay a lot. Well, built into the ‘cheap printer’ business model at Brother is a nasty little trick which says ‘When their colour cartridge runs out (which is really…
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How to Reset/Purge Brother Printer Page Counter
So you have an ink cartridge and Brother decided that it was empty and you disagree and want to milk it further? One thing that might work for you is to reset the internal page counter. It’s fairly public understanding that printer companies have tech inside the machines that essentially tell it when it has printed enough and to print…
How to Make Old HP Laserjet 1000 work with Ubuntu 16.04
EDIT: Sorry, I had one weird ‘-yes’ stuck in that first command a while back but have fixed it and this tutorial works again with copy/paste of commands. Sorry for any inconvenience. I’ll admit I should probably upgrade my printer but… it’s still alive so I won’t. Problem is that now it’s getting harder to install on Ubuntu. Hopefully this…
How to Make a Brother Printer and Scanner Work in Ubuntu
EDIT 2020-06-19 Long time no edit! My instructions below still mostly work it seems (which is bad on Brother for not making this more simple – fail, fail fail) I wanted to add a quick note for 18.04 generation Ubuntu friends to consider as you are working through my nasty old messy post below: First, if you are installing a…