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These things are a disaster. There's an Ink Waste Tank (or Ink Waste Pad in some models) that leftover ink on the head goes into after printing. There's no user
by rektide 4y ago
These things are a disaster. There's an Ink Waste Tank (or Ink Waste Pad in some models) that leftover ink on the head goes into after printing. There's no user serviceability intended. There's a print counter inside the printer keeping track of the printer, and it will just say "End of Service Life" some day, & your printer is toast. These printers are incredibly & shamefully disposable; they are some of the most eco-cidal consumer products out there.
There are some options. There's software to hack your printer like Inkchip which can go meddle with the firmware- for now, assuming Epson doesn't seal up the vulnerabilities these programs rely on. This lets you perform a Ink Counter Reset, that will keep the printer from printing at all.
But you still have a non-user-replaceable Ink Waste Tank/Pad on the printer that's full of old ink! Some folks mod their printer to go build external tanks that they can actually clean out.
This has been going on for a long time now. I'd once been super tempted to find these products. And there's lot of glowing new product & 1 year reviews. But these printers seem 100% designed to fail, and to have to be thrown out (you can send them back to Epson, but supposedly they charge an arm and a leg & you're paying for shipping both ways).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QusB6GCtft8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QusB6GCtft8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoicIB5pbPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoicIB5pbPY