Exactly, this condition means you cannot use your printer. Eventually, I found I had about 20 seconds from power-on before the forcible power off. It turns out this is just enough time to get into the configuration menu and initiate a factory reset. After the configuration is clear, the printer behaves once again. >>Do people really need to print to their printer when they are outside their LAN? I didn't need to print outside my LAN, but I did use the feature to allow the kids' chromebooks access to the printer. Not really worth it in the end.

If they lock up the design details of the software/firmware, they do not need to bother with physically impounding the tractor. It can happily sit defunct on the field as a useless monument to vendor lock-in.