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Your printer says its ink cartridge is empty. That's probably a lie.
  • I ditched my Epson.

    If it had only *just* been claiming to be out of ink early, that might not have gotten me so upset. It was the fact that I at one point put a brand new ink cartridge in, and within days (and not that many printouts) it was telling me that not only was it empty but it was refusing to even attempt to print with that cartridge.

    So I replaced it with a cheapo laser printer because I almost never print in color anyway. Several years of university coursework later, I have not yet had to actually replace the cartridge at all. And most of the laser printers I've used in the past have allowed the user to keep printing until the thing was completely empty if you felt so inclined.

    I don't care if the measurement is wrong, but if the printer is then going to start refusing to actually print even though there's a half-full cartridge still sitting in it, I don't need it.