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The best part I like is it provides a unique email address and hosts a server inside it. I can literally just email a pdf and get it printed on back-back pages, no commands, love it!

>>risfri+(OP)
wait what? Any tutorial on how this works?

>>risfri+(OP)
Where do I find this email?

>>paprua+I3
https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/158082/...

>>risfri+(OP)
Downside is you have to email the documents you want to print to Brother (the company).

Think about that before you email anything you want to keep private.

>>risfri+(OP)
Can one guess printers email addresses and start spamming random printers?

I dont see any way to register the sender's expected email on the printer. Back to fax spamming...?

>>risfri+(OP)
Funny how the article seems to be selling this as "not innovating". I was genuinely surprised when I discovered that it was just a social media post and not some ad-entrusted clickbait repackaging that theverge.com article while trying to one-up it with the "no innovation" claim.

>>usrusr+el
They have done that for as long as they have been internet connected.

>>usrusr+el
Like this slice of journalism?

https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-...

>>hurtuv+ok
Someone did that to my old HP printer a couple times, but there were settings to only accept emails from specific addresses that I eventually turned on.

>>usrusr+el
"Tech innovation" these days means gating hardware features behind a subscription tier like BMW or Tesla do.

>>xd1936+Pn
lol, end of article:

"And here’s 275 words about printers I asked ChatGPT to write so this post ranks in search because Google thinks you have to pad out articles in order to demonstrate “authority,” but I am telling you to just buy whatever Brother laser printer is on sale and never think about printers again."

(followed by chatgpt output)

>>hurtuv+ok
Well you can customise it with the brother printer. Brother itself registers your unique email id against your registered device, hence it has to be globally unique.

>>seb120+X3
Brother provide a default unique email id with your device but you can customise it, the id has be globally unique as Brother registers it.