chip or no chip? I'm looking for ink for this printer, however some vendors advertise ink without chips. What are chips, and do I need them?
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I just found this site www.4inkjets.com that sells Canon remanufactured cartridges with the chip that has been reset so that you can track how much ink is left in your printer from your computer.
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Canon places a "proprietary" chip on its ink cartridges, including the one for this All-In-One printer. Without it, the printer will not work. The "generic" cartridge manufacturer/retailer has not been able to duplicate it, forcing consumers to purchase Canon's brand of over-priced inks. For additional information, go to the discussion forum at the bottom of the Canon MP600 printer review. Look for comments under topic "Anyone try Canon compatible ink yet?"
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Thanks for the website. Remanufactured cartridges at $10-12 are certainly cheaper than ones purchased new at $15, but are still considered costly....
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Apparently, Canon installs chips in the ink cartridges, in order to let you know the amount of ink left in them. I'm not sure about Canon, but in my old HP printer, if they passed the expiration date, the printer would not function unless they were replaced, even if still full. So, if you can find compatible ink, without chips, go for it!!!
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if your cartridges are refillable, you can refill them with bulk inks. you will need to get a reset chip--you can check at refillbay.com to see if your printer type is listed for use with the chip. very easy to do
1270361
It's been awhile since I installed the cartridges from that purchase. The printer may have asked me to confirm that they were 'epson' cartridges (which I probably would have said yes) or there may have been a warning about nonepson-ness where I had to say yes I want to install them. Seems like the clips or tape preventing ink leakage needed a 2nd look. Rebooting he printer before and/or after installing the cartridges may also help. Otherwise it sounds like a faulty chip(s) in the ink cartridges.
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Hi. Yes, the chips do come with the refill kit and are very easy to install. I don't have a page count since I'm still printing away, but I can look at the control panel later and let you know the count up-to-date. I did look at the counters and here is the summary since installing the kit: 962 color prints / 795 mono prints. That's a total of 1757 prints. I still have 87% of CMY and 56% of K, so it seems like it should easily print another 1757 prints before I'll have to replace the K toner.
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From previous purchases of printers, I did buy ink separate for this printer. However, to my joyful surprise, a black & color cartridges were included in the box. So now I have a backup for both cartridges. Not sure if cartridges come wIth every printer of this type or it was special from the seller.
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Chips are recognized by the printer. But it was advised by the ink company not to reset the printer online.
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you can refill them, the problem is the "chip" counts pages and Stops the printer from working... so you have to get new chips for each cartridge about $20 for new chips $40 for toner about $60; I tried rebuilt cartidges and the printer does not recognize the aftermarket rebuilt cartridges; basically Minolta Konica is saying buy only EOM! expensive... I would never buy another printer with page-counting-chips in it: HP got sued for their printers non functionality when the chip count said stop: they updated their software
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I really do not know what it comes with, but usually I take out the memory chip & load it into the computer by SD card port, From the computer, most printer applications should work fine. If it comes with a micro SD, then you may want an SD adapter that usually comes with the Micro SD,, because most computers may still have a port for the regular SD.
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thanks for the quick response. could you post the link of where to learn about taping the cartridges or suggest what to google. My lexmark requires a computer chip to be replaced to refill the toner. Each chip is $20 which bumps up the refill cost to close to $250. That's almost what I paid for it. I love my old Brother B&W; MFC and have had good luck with it. So I'm looking to combine the Lexmark and old brother MFC. I'm almost sold on this unit. Just don't want to end up in the same situation as my lexmark. thanks again & enjoy the new printer!
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Brother did make changes to the chip reader in it's newest printers that use LC103 cartridges. I have a J450DW and a J475DW that I bought late in 2014. I finally found some compatible cartridges that will be recognized by calling LD Products and asking specifically for the new generation chips which they said they had. The only problem with the LD carts is that I don't know how to refill them. I need some refillable carts that will work with the newer printers.
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Thomas; I can not help much because I don't know about a chip resetter. I can tell you that some cartridges will be recognized by the printer (810) and some may not be. I can also tell you that soon when the ink level falls a bit they will become unrecognizable. Epson put a lot of time and effort into their precious ink system and their printer will hound you until the day you or it dies about using genuine Epson ink. You will get so many messages that you may give up and buy Epson inks at exorbitant prices just to shut it up.
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Not sure what you mean by chips? The cartridge are reusable and the siring provided fills up the cartridge thru a tiny hole on top of them, I am refilling them as needed with the bottles of Ink. I print pictures on 4x6 paper and black and white 8.5 X 11 and I think this will last 1.5 to 2 years.
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Yes it has a chip. However, I'm not getting great results with these cartridges. Not sure if my printer needs to be calibrated or if it's the cartridges.
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With regards to the ink jet cartridges, it seems that the smaller black cartridge and the larger black cartridge have to have ink to run the printer. Right now, the larger one is out of ink, but why does it not continue to print from the smaller black cartridge? Is there a setting for this or did I do something wrong during my initial installation of these cartridges?
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Everything you need but USB cable. WTH? Should include USB cable too since it's needed to plug printer into PC. I had to order USB cable separately after getting this printer and finding out it came with no USB cable. Still pissed about that.
69074
There is no ink to replace. The printer uses thermal labels. That is a real perk with this printer...never have to replace an ink cartridge.
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I didn't even use the new provided chip from the vendor. After the toner refilled with ink, the printer works properly. There was no need of replacing with new chip.