Big brands like Epson and Canon have verification chips on their proprietary ink containers and also ‘read ink levels’ that simply stop your printer from functioning even if it has ink if their cartridges drip below a certain level, sometimes as high as 50%. It’s a scammy practice to fraudulently sell you more ink even if you haven’t run out but the ink is now considered out of date or some bullshit.
I assume this is a way to circumvent your printers crap and make it print until the ink runs out. The websites not particularly clear on that.
Funnily enough i hade the opposite problem with my Canon: Ink cartridges getting empty for some reason, reporting the printer that they still had ink, the printer failing to pull in ink and then telling me that my cartridges can’t be original.
I swapped the original cartridges with other original cartridges only to get the same problem a few weeks later. I swapped the printer head and started using refillable cartridges that automatically reset the fill state when disconnected from the printer and so far the printer keeps working.
Big brands like Epson and Canon have verification chips on their proprietary ink containers and also ‘read ink levels’ that simply stop your printer from functioning even if it has ink if their cartridges drip below a certain level, sometimes as high as 50%. It’s a scammy practice to fraudulently sell you more ink even if you haven’t run out but the ink is now considered out of date or some bullshit.
I assume this is a way to circumvent your printers crap and make it print until the ink runs out. The websites not particularly clear on that.
Ah, that. Nice to know there’s a way around it.
Funnily enough i hade the opposite problem with my Canon: Ink cartridges getting empty for some reason, reporting the printer that they still had ink, the printer failing to pull in ink and then telling me that my cartridges can’t be original.
I swapped the original cartridges with other original cartridges only to get the same problem a few weeks later. I swapped the printer head and started using refillable cartridges that automatically reset the fill state when disconnected from the printer and so far the printer keeps working.