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[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

Wait, I thought the counter can be reset with some specific button presses only. I've seen the video guides on YouTube.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

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 ;)

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

Oh nice, so no more sketchy Russian software?

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] somethingp@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah the Canon has been pretty good. I've had it for around a year now. I sort of print in batches, like I'll have a week where I print a few photos then nothing for a month or so. When I had a long break once (2-3 months), the printer started printing streaks so I had to run some sort of fixing cleanup cycle which fixed the issue although it wasted some ink. I haven't had to buy any replacement ink yet because again I don't print a lot, but I'm sure if I was using a traditional inkjet I would've had to buy replacement ink cartridges a few times already.

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