Have an Epson printer? Did you upgrade the firmware and found out your printer was "bricked"? In other words it don't work anymore, can't print, can't scan. If you are using 3rd party ink the updated the printers firmware, this is what happens to your printer.
I have read Epson is being sued over this. At least they could have warned people what will happen if the update the firmware on ther printers. But no, they didn't say anything and people ended up with a useless printer/scanner.
My printer was working fine with 3rd party ink until I upgraded the firmware, then it bricked, useless. I wonder how many people really got jammed up because of this? Lets say some kid had to make a report for school, a person had to have something done for there company, et., etc. So they go to print out what they have done but when they turn the printer on it comes up and say's firmware upgrade available so the upgrade the firmware and then there printer quit working for them. Bummer!
This will only happen if you have 3rd party ink in your printer, it won't happen if you have Epson brand ink in it or you haven't upgraded the firmware yet and are using 3rd party ink. So if you are using 3rd party ink, DON'T UPGRADE THE FIRMWARE!
I had the 3rd part ink in my printer maybe two month and it worked fine until the firmware upgrade. So today I went and bought Epson ink at Walmart which cost $80.00+! Why should we have to pay $80.00+ for ink when we can buy 3rd party ink for about half the cost? I know why, Epson wants to make $$$ off there ink, but still that's not right.
That's like buying for example a flashlight that comes with Eveready batteries in it and you put different battery brand in and the flashlight doesn't work anymore... it will only work with Eveready. Or you buy a Zippo lighter and use a different brand of lighter fluid and your light quits working. Or how about this, you buy a certain gas for your car but your on vacation and have to use another brand of gas and your car quits running!
If Epson wants us to but it's ink cartridge's, it should lower it's price on them and be more completive with the 3rd party brands. I would mind paying a little more for name brans like Epson, but I don't like paying about twice as much as a 3rd party ink cartridge.
I've tried a number of work arounds to bypass the checking of the ink cartridge but for me, nothing worked.
Anyways I put Epson ink cartridge's in today and the printer scanner is back to normal.
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