![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Why I hate Epson
May. 20th, 2009 05:48 pmI really wish I had known about this before I bought my Epson NX400 printer. It prints beautifully (if slowly) when it prints, but running out of any one color of ink locks up the printer until you replace all colors of ink. (And the cartridges are miniscule!) Apparently I'm not the only one annoyed by this:
"Consumers fed up with the high cost of ink jet cartridges are taking Epson America to court, accusing it of manipulating equipment in order to sell more ink. A lawsuit filed Friday in District Court in Texas claims some models of Epson ink jet cartridges prematurely block Epson printers from functioning even though "substantial ink" remains in the cartridge...
"The problem is with Epson ink jet cartridges outfitted with an Intellidge microchip, say Harnes Keller attorneys. Because the Intellidge chip stops Epson printers from operating until the ink jet cartridge is replaced, the plaintiffs charge that Epson is in breach of contract with its customers, who are entitled to use all the ink in the cartridge. The cartridges actually contain up to 38 percent more usable ink after the Intellidge chip cuts them off, according to research cited in the suits."
Also, now I know why I couldn't get the printer to acknowledge my set of slightly used cartridges: the chip is on the cartridge itself, not the printer; it knows how much ink the cartridge has given out, and if that amount doesn't suit it, it shuts down. BOGUS.
"Consumers fed up with the high cost of ink jet cartridges are taking Epson America to court, accusing it of manipulating equipment in order to sell more ink. A lawsuit filed Friday in District Court in Texas claims some models of Epson ink jet cartridges prematurely block Epson printers from functioning even though "substantial ink" remains in the cartridge...
"The problem is with Epson ink jet cartridges outfitted with an Intellidge microchip, say Harnes Keller attorneys. Because the Intellidge chip stops Epson printers from operating until the ink jet cartridge is replaced, the plaintiffs charge that Epson is in breach of contract with its customers, who are entitled to use all the ink in the cartridge. The cartridges actually contain up to 38 percent more usable ink after the Intellidge chip cuts them off, according to research cited in the suits."
Also, now I know why I couldn't get the printer to acknowledge my set of slightly used cartridges: the chip is on the cartridge itself, not the printer; it knows how much ink the cartridge has given out, and if that amount doesn't suit it, it shuts down. BOGUS.
