Comment by johnatwork

3 years ago

Don't they get you by making you change the proprietary sponge/ink pad though?

Oh and it's not user serviceable.

https://epson.ca/Support/wa00369

I've seen a few guides on youtube on how to replace or clean them out, then a paid service similar to unlocking phones to pay a hacker to reset the counter.

  • Sounds like we are back at square one. Or even worse because "regular" DRM'd printers are atleast cheap upfront and you can keep it cheap if you are ok with replacing ID chips/flashing cfw.