Re: Brother MFC dead after power cycle?

In article <Uxmml.20564$Ws1.16617@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Joerg <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Any ideas how to fix/reset the thang? Or does this mean it's dead?

You can try smacking it ala Arthur Fonzarelli to see if there's a loose
connection, but the fact is that this end of the spectrum, regardless of
brand, is junk from the day it's made.

I actually beat the living heck out of some Brother "consumer" lasers,
but don't respect them anyway - they keep turning "error print" on
despite my turning it it off (setting is not saved - hundreds of pages
of crap when their bootleg "not quite postscript" fumbles something
coming in) and I bought and junked 2 more to get "drum units" that cost
more than the printers they came in.

Then again, I have a pair of HP4200 moderately "good" office lasers that
don't work terribly well considering they cost a lot more, and some HP
4000's (older, less sexy "office" laserprinters) that work better than
both the newer HPs and the Brother's, and cost less to operate to boot.

I prefer scanner separate from printer in terms of overall function and
general quality sometimes being slightly better. And at least you only
have to toss the part that actually breaks, if they are separate units.
Any good scanner package will still let you "make copies" from the
scanner to the printer if you want to.

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