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Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining

Posted by Soulskill on from the called-out dept.

sandbagger writes: Printer ink is expensive, so it's important that when a printer tells you a cartridge is running dry, the cartridge is actually running dry. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. The folks over at Bellevue Fine Art in Seattle recently decided to find out exactly how much ink their high-end Epson 9900 printer wastes. A professional grade 700ml cartridge will have 120-150ml remaining when "empty," and a 350ml cartidge will have 60-80ml remaining when "empty." For this studio, the difference amounts to hundreds of dollars worth of ink every month.

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  1. Re:Epson printers and ink pads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "No recourse", except for using this program, distributed freely by Epson on their website, to reset the ink pad counter?

    http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Storesupport/InkPadsForm.jsp

  2. Re: (intentionally blank) by spongman · · Score: 5, Informative

    My last HP printer refused to scan if the ink was low.

    I used "last" there as meaning not only "previous" but also "final".