Epson R220 - Chip Resetter?

johnllew

I've just bought an Epson R220 and will put compatibles in shortly. What's with a chip resetter? What precisely do they do, do I need one and where's the best place to get one?

All advice gratefully received.

hawkwinddotcom

I maybe wrong but I dont think you need one.

It could be that there is some confusion over a programme that will be needed at some point in the printers life when it decides it needs a service and you want to squeeze some more life out of it.

http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

Main features.

SSC Service Utility allow you to do many amazing things with Your Epson printer :

1) Work directly with CSIC in Epson Stylus printers cartridges.
2) Reset or rewrite any chip using special addon device.
3) Freeze internal ink counters.
4) Reset internal ink counters even with empty cartridges.
5) Separate cleaning of color and black heads for all Epson inkjet printers, powerful cleaning mode.
6) Hot swapping of cartridges supported.
7) Resetting of protection counter (even then it is already full).
8) More then 100 different Epson printers supported

This allow many people with high printing demands to save some money (program works with both black and color cartridges).

Pturtle

I have the R200 and use compatible cartridges with chips no problem

xueta

johnllew wrote:

I've just bought an Epson R220 and will put compatibles in shortly. What's with a chip resetter? What precisely do they do, do I need one and where's the best place to get one?

All advice gratefully received.

See here for an example of a chip resetter. If you're going to use new compatible cartridges then you don't need one. If you're going to re-use your existing cartridges by refilling them with ink then you need the resetter.

When you apply the resetter's pins to the chip on the old cartridge, it will update the info on the chip so that it 'reads' full on the printer.

StephenR

I use new compatibles in my R300 but still find a chip resetter very useful.

The printer determines the ink level of a cartridge by "drop-counting", and when it reaches 0% the machine stops working. In fact the cartridge will have at least 10% of the ink remaining, which you can't get at unless you use the resetter. This can be important if you're trying to complete an important print job but don't have a replacement for the colour which is showing as empty.

Keeno_2

Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty sure the SSC utility allows you to do the same thing thus saving the expense of a chip resetter.