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I bought a new Epson Stylus DX5050 multifunction printer/scanner a few
weeks ago. Everything worked well for a few days: we printed about 20
or 30 pages in grayscale, and maybe 3 or 4 pages of color. I checked
the ink levels, and all 4 cartridges were on 90%. During the following
10 days, the printer was barely used - I printed 1 page of color and 4
pages of grayscale. I checked the ink levels again, and the cartridges
were on 30%/10%/20%/10%. How could the ink levels go down so
drastically in 10 days when they were barely used?? How did I lose 80%
of a magenta cartridge by printing one color street map and 4 pages of
black text? I simply don't believe those ink levels are correct; where
could the ink physically have gone? It can't vanish into thin air.
Something must be wrong with the chip system. My Linux printer driver
has records of all the print jobs I've ever submitted, so I *know*
that only 5 pages were printed during those 10 days.
Does anyone else have this problem? I know that Epson changed their
chip design a few months ago (April 2007) to invalidate most of the
"compatible" cartridges on the market, and I wonder if they introduced
some kind of bug. I am angry that Epson not only prevents customers
from using up all the ink in a cartridge, but also has bugs that make
a full cartridge suddenly become unusable. What should I do? I can't
*prove* to anyone that my color cartridges have yielded only 5 pages
before falling to 30%/10%/20% - but yet I've clearly been cheated by
the manufacture.
weeks ago. Everything worked well for a few days: we printed about 20
or 30 pages in grayscale, and maybe 3 or 4 pages of color. I checked
the ink levels, and all 4 cartridges were on 90%. During the following
10 days, the printer was barely used - I printed 1 page of color and 4
pages of grayscale. I checked the ink levels again, and the cartridges
were on 30%/10%/20%/10%. How could the ink levels go down so
drastically in 10 days when they were barely used?? How did I lose 80%
of a magenta cartridge by printing one color street map and 4 pages of
black text? I simply don't believe those ink levels are correct; where
could the ink physically have gone? It can't vanish into thin air.
Something must be wrong with the chip system. My Linux printer driver
has records of all the print jobs I've ever submitted, so I *know*
that only 5 pages were printed during those 10 days.
Does anyone else have this problem? I know that Epson changed their
chip design a few months ago (April 2007) to invalidate most of the
"compatible" cartridges on the market, and I wonder if they introduced
some kind of bug. I am angry that Epson not only prevents customers
from using up all the ink in a cartridge, but also has bugs that make
a full cartridge suddenly become unusable. What should I do? I can't
*prove* to anyone that my color cartridges have yielded only 5 pages
before falling to 30%/10%/20% - but yet I've clearly been cheated by
the manufacture.