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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Also, footfootfoot, Epson didn't come off too great either in my surfing. But the chip resetter would take care of that. |
Oh yeah, their policy or strategy is pretty lousy. They practically give away the pritners knowing that they will ream you with the ink cartridges. The pritner takes 6 cartridges @ ~ $12-14 each. The chip doesn't monitor the actual ink used, it monitors the number of times the printer called for ink. Thus, printing out a single . is the same to the chip as printing out a page of solid color. I've reset the same cartridge up to 4 times before it ran out of ink. The other feature of the chip is that it is supposed to prevent re-filling the cartridge. W/o a chip resetter you can refill the cartridge but the printer won't print if it thinks a cartridge is out. You cannot even print a b&w document if cyan is out. The printer stops working.
So, the chip resetter is the thing that makes this printer ok in my book. I still think Epson is a duplicitous company, but I have a work-around.