Brother has denied the recent accusations and allegations that it is manipulating firmware to harm printers using third-party ink.
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Canon has been sued by one of its customers for selling seemingly misleading All-in-One printers that claim to also scan, and do more, but are only fully functional when ink cartridges are full.
Last week HP printers stopped working and started displaying an error message, seemingly out of nowhere. Now HP has admitted the error is intentional, and designed to hamper use of 3rd party ink.