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Originally Posted by SCEtoAUX
Looks like a nice printer.
Do not do a firmware update. If you do the printer probably won't recognize non OEM ink cartridges.
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Thanks for stopping by SCEtoAUX.
I decided to allow the FW update when it first powered up, I only had the clone carts in place.
It did it, whined that the carts weren't genuine & if I didn't change them for genuine, Epson would eat the liver of my 1st born child etc.
I clicked '
continue at my own peril' & it all went along OK. I've printed about 30 sheets now testing the abilities with no issues.
There are a few things that can probably get you out of a FW mess on this so I figured it was worth the risk.
1 it is possible to buy cartridges that you put your existing
genuine chips on;
2 you can get separate cloned chips, ARC or regular, if req'd;
3 there is a chip resetter for when they hit the magic 'self-destruct' number.
So the reverse engineers have done a good job at reducing the flood of waste cartridges & mega-expense that is part of ink-jet culture on this.
It is worth noting that I was looking at big flatbed scanners & discovered this with the same spec scanner built-in was cheaper by a big margin. Crazy but good for me
