JWBananas

It’s an inkjet thing.

When you run out of color, Brother lets you select to print using only black ink. But after 4 weeks, they lock you out from that too.

It’s documented on their website. No more printing at that point until you replace the offending color cartridge. They do at least let you scan though.

Meanwhile I have printed exactly one single black-only page since the last time I put in a new yellow cartridge (3 months ago) and yet my yellow ink is almost 1/4 depleted at this point. I’ve just been watching it slowly disappear.

Ah, yes, Brother. The company that uses all your yellow ink to clean the print heads and to print tracking dots, and then only gives you up to 4 weeks to print without it before locking you out entirely.