Sounds like a feature, not a bug. You can tell when your toner runs out when it prints light.
All I ever buy is chipless toner cartridges for my Canon printer.
Now they are OFFICIAL!
maybe this will stop this big scam.
my all in one printer wont even let me send a fax once one of the cartridges says it is out of ink. wont even let me print in black ink when the cartridge has plenty of black ink if one of the colored cartridges goes out.
Lol. The chipped ones tell you the toner is gone when there is still plenty left.
One of the reasons I always buy Brother printers is to avoid all this ‘drm’ nonsense.
Back in the day when printing photos at home on an inkjet was a thing, I ordered all my cartridges through printpal. Nearly as good as Epson OEM but at a fraction of the price.
Now everybody knows................
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Damn. I forgot the damn chips are in the ink cartridges.
We have many Canon model LBP6230w laserjets where I work. When I have to replace the cartridge on one of these, if I do not swap the chip from the old one (factory) to the new cartridge the printer will just roll or keep trying to detect the new cartridge forever.
Just one of those things...
Will these be cheaper than ones with chips?
Did a little research last year and ended up with two Kyocera’s.
An 11x17 color laser duplex office-size machine with printing, copying, scanning, email, 3-1/2 paper trays (M8130cidn) and an 8-1/2x11 BW duplex network laser by the desk with 2-1/2 trays (P2040dw). Very happy with functionality, reliability, and supply consumption with both so far.
Only [very minor] beef is that the 11x17 is a tiny bit less full-bleed than the Ricoh that went before it.
Epsom sells an eco tank printer that you can just add ink and not buy cartridges. I paid $300 for it as I was selling photos and used it regularly. 2 months later, it just stopped and said it exceeded its lifetime (something like that).
You had to take it to a shop to be repaired which would cost more than the $300.
Now I had printed over 500 photos at this time, but was pissed off that 2 months was a lifetime.
Did some research and found a hack online that I paid $8.00 for that reset the counter to 0 and I was able to resume using my printer. I did that 5 more times. That is $1800 more Epsom would have got from me. Total scam on their part.
I had a HP printer that refused to accept refilled cartridges. Finally dumped it for a Canon that does take refilled cartridges, but just hit a limit on the Canon where the tiny little sponge pads that soak up excess ink are supposedly too full. Error message says to get it serviced. I found a video that shows how to remove the sponges, clean them out and replace them, but you have to hard reset the printer to clear the counter so it has to be reset to the wi-fi. Can’t find anywhere to just buy new pads (which look like they should cost a nickel apiece), so I guess I’ll do the cleanup and reset when I get time. Wonder how many folks take their printers to get serviced for this?
Go here for either OEM ink or the knockoffs which are half the cost and whose ink lasts like the OEM.
I have used them since 2007
4inkjets
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