I have not bought a inkjet printer since forever because they’ve always been crap, and I have given up on laser printers for a long time too now… Nowadays I just don’t think having a personal printer is worth the trouble.

But one of the factors in making this decision was that my last laser printer decided my toner needed to be replaced for absolutely no reason. I am not printing a lot, and it was nowhere near empty.

Turns out there is a built-in hardware check inside the toner which is purely time-based, and after a while it just decides the toner must be checked by support or replaced. I checked on the internet, there is a resistor you can change in the toner to reset the counter and make it “new” again.

I couldn’t be bothered though. It was an old model, I was moving out, I knew a friend who was ready to mess with it so I gave it away, and I never bought another one.