Current Events > Wow, it looks like buying non brand-name toners completely ruined my printer

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I have a brother color laser printer

I bought it about a year ago. It always worked perfectly.

I print a lot of pictures, sometimes like 50 straight pages of pictures.

So anyway, recently I bought some generic toners because the 4 toners from brother cost a total of nearly 500 bucks and the equivalent 4 toners with non brand name cost like 150 or something, and the reviews were good.

So I installed the new toners and all of a sudden everything I print is disgusting. Like there's spills all over the pages, the colors are all messed up, there's blank spaces on the pictures, etc. Horrible.

So I resign and remove those toners and replace them with genuine brother toners.

Well, now the problems are continuing. Not only is the print quality horrible but the printer can only grab the papers from the tray half of the times (the other half it thinks the tray is empty). And when it does manage to print, it makes a really loud metallic noise as the paper makes its way inside.

Basically, the printer is now completely useless.

What I suspect is that... somehow, I think Brother hard coded some kind of sabotage mechanism in their printer that would just basically self destroy the printer as soon as it detects a non genuine toner. That would pretty accurately explain what just happens.

I also suspect Barron is Donald and Ivanka's bastard son, but maybe I watch too much Game of Thrones.
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Should've played by their rules.
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That sounds terrible.
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