It is designed to fail. But for other reasons and by different mechanisms.
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hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months agoThat’s an ink absorber, and all inkjet printers have them. It’s not “designed to fail”, it’s a physical limitation of the universe. You can’t just keep dumping ink into a sponge forever. Eventually it will become saturated and you can either clean it or replace it.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 9 months ago
hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s not designed to fail. It’s designed to be user serviceable. You can buy a replacement and replace it yourself. It literally only requires a Phillips head screwdriver to take out the one screw on the back panel. If that is designed to fail, then a car needing an oil change is “designed to fail”.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It literally only requires a Phillips head screwdriver to take out the one screw on the back panel.
Literally rocket science. I’m gonna have to pay a monthly subscription so a service tech can come out and do it for me.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It is made out of materials that have a set lifetime or propensity for easily breaking, like glass screens that explode into a supernova if you look at then wrong.
frezik@midwest.social 9 months ago
What materials could be used here that wouldn’t have that problem?
hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ok, at this point I feel like you’re just joking. If not, you’re legitimately mad.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It would be nice of them to sell replacement kits, though
hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
That’s fine, but make it easily user replaceable then!
hperrin@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It is? It’s behind a panel on the back of the printer. Just take the single Phillips head screw off.
ThatoneNB23@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
What I meant by “designed to fail” is that most of these ecotank printers need the counter to be reset by epson themselves. You can easily replace the pads. But you can’t easily reset the counter. It is possible but it involves trusting sketch sites and paying for a license to use the reset software. Older cartridges based epson printers had waste tanks with chips so that it could know when it was replaced. Newer eco tank printers don’t have the chip that last it know when the waste tank is replaced.
hperrin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s not designed to fail, that’s designed to be serviced. Do you call cars “designed to fail” because they need new oil filters and the check engine light comes on when you need an oil change?
ThatoneNB23@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yeah but it’s the same as if the oil filter in your car was super glued in and the dealership was the only ones that had the chemical to dissolve the glue.
hperrin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You just said there are other ways to do it besides Epson. There are multiple sites that provide utilities to reset the counter.
The sponges are cheap. Way cheaper than using a cartridge printer. You can even just clean out the sponge and put it back in. You don’t have to buy a new one.
Even going through Epson’s first party maintenance program is way cheaper than using a cartridge printer. Like, orders of magnitude cheaper.