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Epson Eco Tank printers prevent regular maintenance by consumers or third parties by imposing artificial DRM barriers to printer maintenance functions. | Epson Eco Tank printers prevent regular maintenance by consumers or third parties by imposing artificial DRM barriers to printer maintenance functions. | ||
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This situation exposes customers to shady business practicies and potentially malware infected software as many of these reset providers aren't credible or verifiable legitimate service providers, it is not hard to find many of these operating over telegram or whatsapp. | This situation exposes customers to shady business practicies and potentially malware infected software as many of these reset providers aren't credible or verifiable legitimate service providers, it is not hard to find many of these operating over telegram or whatsapp. | ||
All of this is unnecessary as Epson could just provide the required maintenance software with a disclaimer of accountability on user error during maintenance if not performed by an authorized service provider. | All of this is unnecessary as Epson could just provide the required maintenance software with a disclaimer of accountability on user error during maintenance if not performed by an authorized service provider. | ||
Thankfully there are several open source programs for resetting the counter yourself, such as [https://github.com/LeFZdev/reinkpy-fix reinkpy-fix], [https://github.com/eAvio/epson-ecotank-reset epson-ecotank-reset] and [https://github.com/Ircama/epson_print_conf epson_print_conf]. | |||
While this article focuses on Epson printers and their waste ink tank counter, Printer manufacturers such as Canon and HP have also been known to engage in anti repair, anti competitive, anti consumer practicies that have lead to many scandals over the years yet they continue to do it. | While this article focuses on Epson printers and their waste ink tank counter, Printer manufacturers such as Canon and HP have also been known to engage in anti repair, anti competitive, anti consumer practicies that have lead to many scandals over the years yet they continue to do it. | ||