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I feel like these are prompts to advertise Brother network printers. The quality makes me consider buying their sewing machine.

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Ah yes I figured I'd fine one like me in here. Seriously though, if you're having issues with your printer throw it away and buy a Brother printer, they just work and they have reasonable prices for replacement ink. They actually created a new type of inkjet printer, the ink tank printer[1] where you buy the ink in bottles and just pour it into printer tanks, it supposedly ends up being even cheaper on ink than laser printing.

[1] https://www.brother-usa.com/what-is-a-tank-printer

Brother did not invent ink tanks. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertank_printers, Epson first introduced supertank printers to the US market, but continuous ink systems with (I assume) external tanks are at least 15 years old: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Continuous_ink_sy.... As far as I can tell, your linked article doesn't even claim that Brother invented ink tanks, merely that Brother sells them and they are good.

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