Look, I will not lie, the companies who are producing printers and ink/toner cartridges are hungry for money, and although some of them are trying to play nice with us, others are being pricks about it. As an example, just two years ago HP silently introduced a firmware update which disabled all printers that had non-genuine cartridges in them.
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The best thing? They did it without announcing it or doing.anything. to let the end user know (. You can already imagine how it went, the whole story backfired at HP and people started returning their devices. Resetting Epson Ink Cartridges by Swapping Cartridge ChipsNow, the second hardware solution is swapping cartridge chips, which I personally do not recommend because it just doesn’t make sense. In this scenario you need one pair of full cartridges and one pair of empty cartridges which you plan to refill. Once you refill the empty cartridges you take out the chips from the full cartridges and put them in to the refilled cartridges.With that “cheat” your printer will think that the refilled cartridges are the new, full ones, but do you see the problem here?You already have a perfectly good new set of cartridges, and you’re screwing around with the new chips just to spend them on refilled cartridges.
Grasp one of the ends of a metal paper clip and bend it outward. The end should be at a 90-degree angle from the rest of the paper clip. Remove the ink cartridge from the printer. Look on the bottom of the cartridge. You should see a chip with a small hole underneath. Video of the Day. Insert the end of the paper clip into the hole and press.
It just doesn’t make sense. It’s easier to just get a $15 chip reset tool then screw up a perfectly good pair of genuine ink cartridges. You see these little chips on the cartridge? Those are the culprits. The Software way of resetting Epson Ink Cartridges: The SSS Service UtilityAt one point the guys from the Localization group presented a small program which solved the problems of many, and even today, this little.exe file is still available for a secure download and works with over 100 printers. It’s the first true software reset tool for Epson cartridges, and it works perfectly.Downsides? Well, 100 printers sounds like a lot, but it’s one printer less if your device is not on the list of compatible models, so be sure to check it before you download it.
It’s available through this link, where you can also find the full tutorial on how to do it properly: there a secret reset button on your ink cartridge?Short answer: NoLong answer: People on various blogs, YouTube videos and God knows where else, are screwing around with you. There is no reset button on the ink cartridge, there is no paper clip ink reset method, it’s just another way for the internet people to get more views.Look at it from the logical side, an Ink Cartridge has no electricity in it, it’s just a piece of plastic filled with ink, thus, you can’t reset an ink cartridge through a button as you could reset a modem or a router. It just doesn’t work that way.
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