As far as I can tell Epson printers are now not worth the low
purchase cost of them. Disposable printers.

The cost of the ink cartridges are out of site and the printer Epson
software can tell if it is not an Epson cartridge. I suspect  the
printer will disable it self if it detects a non Epson ink
cartridge.

I am not about to go out and buy a whole new set of expensive Epson
cartridges to see if it will start working again.

I would rather buy a different printer.

Not a nice thing for Epson  to do but hard to prove one way or the
other. Reminds me of VW cheating on smog by detecting when the VW was
being smog tested.

I now have a junk epson printer going in the land fill.

Paul Lamar

Paul ,read the videos on the Epson, You can press the button on the
front. You can refill the cartridges.

Steve Carlisle

Paul I have been using Epson printers all my adult life,  and always use
the cheap aftermarket refills with very few problems.

Epson is superior in my view as you aren't throwing(read paying for) out a
perfectly good print head with every ink refill,  and yes you can refill
them.

But that said, they have to be maintained correctly, ie don't let them run
completely out as the ink can dry in the head and can be difficult to
reprime.

Phill Hinds


I am done with that ink jet nonsense.

I started using Epson dot matrix printers back in the Apple II days. One of
my companies made and sold the first printer interface for an Apple II.
It was called Microproducts.

Paul Lamar

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