Oh dear - it looks as though one has to be even more careful if choosing a new printer these days! I expect that the alternate cartridge industry will come up with a fix before too long and maybe some printer manufacturer will start charging an economic price for its printers and loudly proclaim that it has no objection to the use of alternative ink catridges. I mean - there isn't a cartel, is there?
Some time ago, my wife decided to replace an ink cartridge in her Epson printer/copier/scanner. Normally she gets me to do this. Anyway, she didn't push the new (compatible) cartridge down properly so the "protection chip" did not make proper contact. Result - the printer locked up and after a Google search, I found the reset instructions. Since following these, the printer started working normally and thus saved me the cost of having to do what znord737 is possibly being faced with. Hopefully his reset instructions will appear on Google before long!
P.P.
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