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Comment by meragrin_

3 years ago

I take it you have not heard about the waste ink pad counter? Once that is up, you either have to buy a new printer or take it to a service center.

https://epson.com/Support/wa00369

> Why not just make the Ink Pads a user-replaceable item? > Implementing this type of a design would result in more expensive printers. Most users would not benefit from such higher costs because their printers will never reach the Parts End of Life message.

This reads like actual gaslighting. Most users will never reach parts end of life? How is that even possible? Do most users buy a new ecotank printer and throw away their old one every year?

Would be really nice if someone reverse-engineered the maintenance program and allowed a reset of this idiot-light.

  • It has been done before, there are reverse engineed tools to reset the counter (though you should clean out our replace the pad too).