my Brother laser printer I bought from goodwill fifteen years ago
Obligatory mention that the yellow ink in particular is for printing the printer tracking dots.
You censored “stupid”?!!!
I think the original say the r-word
Why are we shitting on laser printers? I thought the inkjets were the cursed ones.
Bambu is on the way to doing that.
They’ve increasingly been locking down their devices, while adding features that identify Bambu spools using RFID. Their end goal is 100% to restrict use to their filement only. And I’m sure they’ll track the use on a given spool so you can’t keep refilling it with filament from other brands.
their end goal is 100% to restrict use to their filament only.
I’ll be shocked if that ends up happening. The RFID tags are a convenience, but their software includes profiles for major filament manufacturers.
Don’t get me wrong, the closed-off stuff is frustrating. But they’d have to be complete idiots to limit to their own materials. Locking to proprietary filaments has killed other 3D printing companies and they’d be no different. They’re assholes, but they’re far from stupid.
And I’m sure they’ll track the use on a given spool so you can’t keep refilling it with filament from other brands.
They do track the use of given spool, but not by individual tag. The tag just had the filament profile on it. Instead, when you load up a spool into the AMS they feed it all the way through to the nozzle and then retract it. During this they track how often the tag passes the RFID reader, which tells it how full the spool is since the circumference gets smaller as the spool empties.
But if you put the tag on a refill from another brand, like I do, it goes back to detecting a full spool. I’ve found that Polyterra works just fine with the Bambu Matte settings, so I order Polymaker’s refill spools. Using the tag means it loads up the color cards data for me, which is convenient.
Having worked several 3D printers over the years, man do I wish that were actually true!
I literally have a dissembled 3D printer in my desk right now that got the hotend entirely covered in some unknown carbonized substance… Probably from the filament.
Yet, that’s actually an easy fix and will cost a little bit because I’m choosing to replace that stuff.
At the same time, I have a paper printer around that I dissembled 3 weeks ago that is just waiting to be thrown away, because some parts made to break broke, and they cost as much as a new printer.
And yet I have at least three 3D printers sitting on my desk that are broken in various states that I have been unable to repair and unable to get working again including a brand new one that I literally just got a couple months ago I only started it up last week I’ve only done four prints on it five prints on it I think and it’s currently stating that it’s clogged even though I have cleaned every single piece of that damn thing and just replace the hot end this afternoon. But yet my inkjet printer which I haven’t touched has a absolutely zero issues.
Looks like you found the company doing that to 3D printers.
Yeah I’m pretty sure that’s any printers. You hear this on any sort of I have three different models of printers three different companies and all of them have had issues of various sorts.
because some parts made to break broke
That’s what’s the other printers’ for, innit?
Not really.
Almost nothing in a paper printer is just a plastic part with 0.1mm accuracy.
If you don’t mind the shit business, Bambu printers pretty much “just work”
At least compared to any Ender
That’s a brother printer, a 3720 or 3780 maybe? Pretty sure they still print monochrome if they’re out of yellow ink.
Should have been an hp, that would be more realistic.
It’s a 3780 (MFC-L3780CDW), I have one. My first laser printer, finally (vetoed for 3x just to have yet another inkjet fail…). My understanding is that all colors are consumed even if it’s b/w, since the paper needs to pass all the toner regardless of color, so I’m pretty sure you’d encounter the same issue, just ‘everything is empty’ instead of ‘one thing is empty’.
We bought it last year and have used like 2% toner, so at this rate I’ll die before I need to get replacement cartridges (I’ve printed nothing, family has printed everything so far).
I like it, my only wish is that it had a turn on/off schedule. It’s not great at photos but I knew that going in; we haven’t printed photos in like 20 years, so the trade-off was fine.
