After working with refillable ore one-use cartridges w/o any problem, a few days ago the R280 strangely stopped recognizing the very same or any other cartridges.
Any help / advice greatly appreciated, to try fixing it before throwing away an otherwise good printer.
In fact turned it off that evening w/ all refillable cartridges inserted and working and the next morning when turned it on, all cartridges were marked as "unknown". Tried all the tricks recommended by ink sellers or in the forums - turning it off for hours, no-cartridge cycles,all to no avail.
With refillable or after-market one-use cartridges, forced to full with the resetter or not, makes no difference, same behavior.
I am not sure whether Epson ran a stealth firmware update on the printer (how would that be possible?) but printer version still shows the same 6.51and I see no new/updated files under C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3 or C:\ProgramData\EPSON (except for the pemp ones created every time).
When I am inserting the cartridges one at a time each cartridge is recognized as "genuine Epson" (but ink level not shown)
After each cartridge inserted using the "howto" or manual-via-ink-button ink change I'm prompted to insert missing cartridges, the ones already inserted being visible as "Genuine Epson" in the Information window of the status monitor. But when the last missing cartridge is inserted all cartridges show "unknown".
If I remove any of the cartridges and re-run the replacement, again all inserted cartridges are marked as OK
If I trigger the printer button change and simply open and close the cartridge compartment cover getting apparently an all-empty indication (???)
If I remove all the cartridges, run a replacement cycle without a cartridge, turn off the printer for 5min
Then I roll another cartridgeless replacement cycle, then put back one cartridge at a time starting with yellow
And I see these errors never seen before, suggesting that somehow Epson stealthily pushed a firmware update (arrghh!!)
Then if I continue adding one cartridge at a time, all cartridges are recognized as "genuine Epson" until I insert the last one, when I arrive in the same situation - all cartridges rejected
Any help / advice greatly appreciated, to try fixing it before throwing away an otherwise good printer.
In fact turned it off that evening w/ all refillable cartridges inserted and working and the next morning when turned it on, all cartridges were marked as "unknown". Tried all the tricks recommended by ink sellers or in the forums - turning it off for hours, no-cartridge cycles,all to no avail.
With refillable or after-market one-use cartridges, forced to full with the resetter or not, makes no difference, same behavior.
I am not sure whether Epson ran a stealth firmware update on the printer (how would that be possible?) but printer version still shows the same 6.51and I see no new/updated files under C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3 or C:\ProgramData\EPSON (except for the pemp ones created every time).
When I am inserting the cartridges one at a time each cartridge is recognized as "genuine Epson" (but ink level not shown)
After each cartridge inserted using the "howto" or manual-via-ink-button ink change I'm prompted to insert missing cartridges, the ones already inserted being visible as "Genuine Epson" in the Information window of the status monitor. But when the last missing cartridge is inserted all cartridges show "unknown".
If I remove any of the cartridges and re-run the replacement, again all inserted cartridges are marked as OK
If I trigger the printer button change and simply open and close the cartridge compartment cover getting apparently an all-empty indication (???)
If I remove all the cartridges, run a replacement cycle without a cartridge, turn off the printer for 5min
Then I roll another cartridgeless replacement cycle, then put back one cartridge at a time starting with yellow
And I see these errors never seen before, suggesting that somehow Epson stealthily pushed a firmware update (arrghh!!)
Then if I continue adding one cartridge at a time, all cartridges are recognized as "genuine Epson" until I insert the last one, when I arrive in the same situation - all cartridges rejected
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