Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly
PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 9 months agoUntil the software counter decides that the waste ink pad is full and the thing blows a software fuse.
Epson’s official solution to a full pad is to throw out your printer and buy a new one - literally a printer with a self destruct timer. Not very “eco”.
sirfancy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Cursory research about this seems you can replace it yourself for $10. Are you sure about this?
PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
epson.com/…/epson-ink-pads-reset-utility-faqs
For “North American users” Epson now offers a tool to increase the self destruct counter one, single, time.
There are third parties now, that offer a reset of the software destruct counter, for a fee.
The fact that a printer sold as “Eco” has a software self destruct that the user requires an unlock key to reset - an occurrence frequent enough to make it a profitable business for third parties to sell such keys - should tell you all you need to know about these printers.
There appear to be higher end models without this self destruct, but most consumer models have this limitation.
sirfancy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Thanks for the info, that’s absurd. I don’t know why more people are talking about this then.