Epson seems like a great choice, until you learn about the ecotank sponge issue.
You can buy a new waste ink sponge for next to nothing, but the firmware counter needs to be reset. That requires either a sketchy piece of software from some Russian hacker, or shipping the printer to epson and then paying epson for 5min of work and return shipping. The latter is rumored to be about the same price as a new ecotank.
But you’re happy with your megatank? I might look into that… I stopped looking at inkjets after hearing about the ecotank.
Dang, I can’t find it anymore. I swear I watched a video about an ecotank counter reset once, since I was also interested in buying it one time. I’ll have to dig into my YouTube history.
That can be quite the adventure, which I won’t ask you to undertake. Because google returned a result from the site with the subs, where someone has gotten a copy of the original epson maintenance software ;)
I don’t know, it’s in an encrypted zip-file, so it doesn’t bode well. I’ll have to put it on a VM on an old host, and see what happens when I upload it to virustotal. But it should be the original piece of software at least.
Epson seems like a great choice, until you learn about the ecotank sponge issue.
You can buy a new waste ink sponge for next to nothing, but the firmware counter needs to be reset. That requires either a sketchy piece of software from some Russian hacker, or shipping the printer to epson and then paying epson for 5min of work and return shipping. The latter is rumored to be about the same price as a new ecotank.
But you’re happy with your megatank? I might look into that… I stopped looking at inkjets after hearing about the ecotank.
Wait, I thought the counter can be reset with some specific button presses only. I’ve seen the video guides on YouTube.
w00t? I will really have to look into that. There’s a reasonably priced 2nd hand A3 ecotank in my vicinity, and I’ve been avoiding it because of this.
Do you have sources?
Dang, I can’t find it anymore. I swear I watched a video about an ecotank counter reset once, since I was also interested in buying it one time. I’ll have to dig into my YouTube history.
That can be quite the adventure, which I won’t ask you to undertake. Because google returned a result from the site with the subs, where someone has gotten a copy of the original epson maintenance software ;)
Oh nice, so no more sketchy Russian software?
I don’t know, it’s in an encrypted zip-file, so it doesn’t bode well. I’ll have to put it on a VM on an old host, and see what happens when I upload it to virustotal. But it should be the original piece of software at least.