It’s been a while since I had a chance to sit and spend 5 minutes thinking, much less write about the situation with Ink Pad Reset (IPR) tools, but, here at last is a summary of the current situation. Epson Adjustment Program L100 Aircraft. ? New to the topic of Waste ink counters, Service required or Ink Pad Resets? You might want to read to get an introduction to these core issues before you catch up on the latest developments detailed below New printers, New protection Last year started with the PX700W, Artisan 800 and similar printers appearing and with them came the realisation that these printers waste counters could only be reset using specific adjustment utilities. Unfortunately it soon became clear that such a utility was going to cost you $50+ and couldn’t be shared. A few months later a new ‘volunteer’ appeared on the net with the ability to remove the protection restricting these utilities. Unfortunately there was some confusion caused by unlocked adjustment utilities being reported as infected/malware. Once that was cleared up, OrTHoTaMiNe, became synonymous with SSC for anyone with that generation of printers.

Next generation protection Sadly, since then it seems that someone in the Epson camp has been paying more attention to the grey market of adjustment utilities. Neopost Printer Drivers. As with new printer firmware and new cartridge chips, it seems that someone now considers waste ink resetting a serious enough threat that they’ve started putting additional protection into their adjustment utilities.

Gone are the days where you could change the date on your computer and get a utility to work T50: The Canary The first indication that something was different was when a utility was released into the wild for the T50. It was promptly patched using the same techniques that worked on the TX700W generation of printers so the assumption was that it would work for this printer too Then the reports of problems came rolling in This time the utility failed with the now infamous error 21000068. It seems that the newer utilities were re-coded to wait until the correct printer was attached before it did additional checking. The reason for this was simple.