• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    No idea. Some model I bought off Amazon.

    The printer headers are constantly moving out of alignment. Every time I print I need to realign the headers.

    Probably has something to do with the printer starting up every few days and making a bunch of noise doing who knows what.

    I hate this fucking printer and will never buy brother again.

    Edit: according to my order history it’s the ink jet MFC-J4335DW.

    I realize that lasers are better from a printing consistency standpoint but the issue I have with it isn’t the ink. It’s everything else. Shitty design. It breaks down because it was poorly designed.

    If you want reliability brother ain’t it.

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      That noise is the heads being cleaned, which needs to happen on all inkjet printers. It may be that your one was simply broken. I bet if you call Brother and ask for some advice they will help you.

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        I would. But a little research shows this is a very common problem with this model.

        Even if I get it replaced it will eventually happen again.

        Poor design.

        After all of these years these people still can’t get it right. Fool me once.

        Edit: it’s clear to me now that its “self cleaning” feature is responsible for why the heads get forced out of position. Wtf.

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          Still in warranty or less than 3 years old? I saw the Reddit post on this issue, might still be worth asking, they may have developed a hardware of software fix, and if not they may allow you to switch model.