Printer Ink Secret ?

[Saint in Paradise]

 

Don't know if this is true, anyone tried it ?

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

I have an Epson printer and there is no reset button on the cartridges.

[Al de Man]

It's partially true. The bit about the reset button is complete ********, but the chip does store information about the cartridge's usage to try and prevent people using those messy refill kits with syringes.

 

I bought a chip resetter on eBay for a fiver or so which allowed you to put the cartridge back in to finish off the dregs although the printer monitoring software would report the cartridge as being completely full again, unlike in that video.

 

Previously, the printer would monitor how much you printed and estimated what was remaining in the cartridges. All you needed to do to reset it was take the cartridge out whilst the printer was on and put it back in again.

 

Nowadays, I use a £25 CIS for my printer which took about five minutes to install, came with the equivalent volume of ink as about a dozen sets of cartridges and is simplier to refill than cartridges.

[hamster]

Printers are the bain of my working life in our Online Centre. I've been through about one every year.

 

We started with a simple Epson inkjet and it was relatively simple to just pop in a replacement cheapie from Cartridge World. Omce we moved up [sic] to a laserjet thye problems began. Admittedly it was ne who snapped a little plastic bit off the first one but our second Hp was a right bugger. After a couple of thousand pages it refused to print giving a message about the flux capacitor (heat exchange thingy) having expired! When I called their support dept I explained that the print quality was perfect and it must be a faulty messagfe.

 

After some research I discovered that the chips are set to give that message regardless after x amount of pages. I did find a solution though which may help others who are handy with a philips screwdriver; find the little fuse on the part and simply unscrew the cover and replace, they actually do blow the fuse hence the failure to be abke to reset using normal methods. I still managed to bugger it up myself in the end.

 

Our current printer replaced one that actually did burn out leaving us to be wildly out with our printing charges. We've now go a cheapo one again and quality is fine, fast and above all cheap.

 

Printer companies are shysters, hate them.

[Al de Man]

Printer companies are shysters, hate them.

 

Of course they are. The printer itself is a loss-leader and they screw you horribly on the running costs knowing that a decent proportion of idiots will buy original cartridges.

 

When colour ink first came out in a tri-chamber cartridges at about £25 a pop, volume for volume it was more expensive than Chanel No.5.