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My Bi-Di monitor software doesn't work anyway. Only the flashing red stupid light on the printer indicates anything. And so what? when it's empty it's empty. When it stops printing then replace the ink. If it stops printing before it's out of ink that's a different problem. That's actually fraud and Lexmark and Epson already lost that case. In fact I have as of today a $45 credit from Epson online for my portion of a class action settlement against Epson for this very reason. Otherwise ignore the stupid red light.
Not only that. if you buy ink cartridges in bulk, to save money, and they lie around for a while while you wait for your current cartridge to empty out, you will find that replacing it with the new cartridge is pointless because a chip on the new cartridge was marked with an expiry date!
I don't even buy ink. I just buy a new printer when it runs out. There's a free printer in every box of ink cartridges.
...Is usually 50% of the cost of the printer itself. The cheapest refills I could find were H-P's, where an ink refill is $40 for both cartridges for an $80 printer. The upcharge is even more on a Epson photo-type printer where there are 6 or more cartridges (and they stop printing if one of the 6 is "out").
They are making money hand over fist on these disposables. The printer itself is nothing. In other words, printers are now like those disposable cameras where you are basically buying a plastic box to hold the film. Secondary market cartridges are chancy too - an Epson of mine stopped printing decently when I put in Cartridge World type cartridges.
