I got a Beef. Its with the new printers coming out. Especially the ones from Epson. I have myself an Epson C-82. Works great, great photos. But i recently got a message “Low Black Ink”, i thought, no biggy. Ill just replace it. When i removed it, the thing had enough ink for 50 or so pages!
I researched and found out : Epson has chips on their cartridges that automatically make the cartridge useless after an X amount of printings. I print alot of one liners, so my pages rang up fast. ** WHY THE HELL DID THEY DO THAT? ALSO, ANY WAY I CAN TRICK THE CHIP? **
Are you still capable of printing regardless of the low ink message? If so, then keep printing until the ink is fully gone. If not, then that's pretty stupid system that Epson has implemented.
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*Originally posted by Fret Wizard: *
Are you still capable of printing regardless of the low ink message? If so, then keep printing until the ink is fully gone. If not, then that's pretty stupid system that Epson has implemented.
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silly question, but have you tried shaking the cartridge and then putting it back in? It might make the thing think theres more ink then there actually is :)
i had the exact same problem with my epson. i kept on working to find a solution but to no success. Then i gave up and bought the 3 in 1 system (PCS) by HP and its pretty good. and for a good price. Only $150cdn.period. No mail-in-rebate or things like that.
You'll be wondering that what did i do with my Epson. Well, wonder no more. I dusted it off, picked it up, turned it sideways and gave a World-cup class kick to it :D
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*Originally posted by ukwali: *
have you tried shaking the cartridge
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tried it ;), but the prob is from the chip. the chip on the cartridge has a counter. once you print an amount of pages it stops printing even if its almost full. i was wondering if there was a way to trick the chip.
Im Kool, nice idea, but i dont got 150bucks. I already spent 250 on the epson. plus 50 for a new black cartridge.
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i had the exact same problem with my epson. i kept on working to find a solution but to no success. Then i gave up and bought the 3 in 1 system (PCS) by HP and its pretty good. and for a good price. Only $150cdn.period. No mail-in-rebate or things like that.
You'll be wondering that what did i do with my Epson. Well, wonder no more. I dusted it off, picked it up, turned it sideways and gave a World-cup class kick to it :D
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I also bought the HP PSC 750 recently (for 180 Euro) to replace my old Epson printer. And I can tell you: It is fantastic.
It was the first time that I've tried buying anything from HP and I'm very satisfied with it. Don't know whether HP is the best producer of printers in general. From my own personal experience, they are.
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Don't know whether HP is the best producer of printers in general. From my own personal experience, they are.
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My epson is fine, great color, fast, and quite...but the ink is costly.
It turns out Canon wins without a doubt. The key factor -> they own the patent to the ink cartridges. Meaning, cheap cartridges. I have also found that their printers(well all their products) are extremely well made. HP was great, but now their printers are very flimsy. I can easily bend the top of the new HPs.
Planning to get a Canon or maybe HP in the future if Epson continues adding stupid features.
tried it ;), but the prob is from the chip. the chip on the cartridge has a counter. once you print an amount of pages it stops printing even if its almost full. i was wondering if there was a way to trick the chip.
Im Kool, nice idea, but i dont got 150bucks. I already spent 250 on the epson. plus 50 for a new black cartridge.
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B1tching might help. Just go and make a scene, no body wants that so they'll try to pay you off, prolly get your money back for the cartridge, maybe allow you to return the printer.
Btw, how much ink is there still left in the cartridge when it stops printing?
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Btw, how much ink is there still left in the cartridge when it stops printing?
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There was about 1/4 left. Thats about 10 bucks of ink. I called Epson, they claim the counter feature is used to prevent reuse of their cartridges. Stupid excuse.
I also bought the HP PSC 750 recently (for 180 Euro) to replace my old Epson printer. And I can tell you: It is fantastic.
It was the first time that I've tried buying anything from HP and I'm very satisfied with it. Don't know whether HP is the best producer of printers in general. From my own personal experience, they are.
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Did u really buy it for 180 euro?
Then i'm damn sure that i got a sick deal with my HP,eh?
$150 AND Canadian!
btw, HP isn't the best printer maker but its adequete for my needs. i mean i rarely print any pictures and 95% of all my printing are documents of half a page.you know those picture printing papers that came with em'? i still have all of them:D
It also makes up for not having a digital camera right now. i've scanned almost every pic that i could find in my house. once i copied a picture from it and it was of exactly the same quality as the pic itself. if i would have used any softwares that came with it, i'm sure that it would have been better that the original picture
yeah US is even cheaper than Canada but europe has an advantage that things are generally introduced in europe before they are in NA.
So basiclly when someone here does a preview of some gadget, you guys in europe already have had hand-ons experience.
Everything good thing comes with a price
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