Neither am I. Tech hardware laws that pass in the US get applied everywhere and the law may have been passed elsewhere as well. All I know is that pretty much all printers worldwide do this.
Why the scanning thing happens, I have no idea. I had not read the law it may be so broad “Devices that can print are not allowed to function without the ability to print the colour dots” that they must be disabled until they can print colour.
Brother printers can lick my salty nuts for exactly this reason.
It is not brothers fault. It was something they were forced to do.
More generally, I have found Brother to be the least worst printer company.
If you are only printing text, a low end brother laser printer is by far your best option.
If you are printing less than a couple of hundred colour pages a year you are better off going to a print shop to do so as it will be cheaper.
If you are printing more than a couple of hundred colour pages a years look into Epson ecotank printers as they are the most cost effective option.
The printer wouldn’t even scan without ink though.
I’m also not in the USA.
Neither am I. Tech hardware laws that pass in the US get applied everywhere and the law may have been passed elsewhere as well. All I know is that pretty much all printers worldwide do this.
Why the scanning thing happens, I have no idea. I had not read the law it may be so broad “Devices that can print are not allowed to function without the ability to print the colour dots” that they must be disabled until they can print colour.
cost efficient
cost-effective (adj): If an activity is cost-effective, it is good value for the amount of money paid:
there is no difference of meaning between cost-effective and cost-efficient.