Epson Printer Settlement ($25 settlement per printer)

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$25 for each printer that you have that qualifies (the list is huge, so dont' worry) but you have to register each one.. and i can't remember my date of purchase (

o wells... hope this is helpful to some people D +kma is nice if you get your money

It is $45

20 of it is credit at their store, i believe

and you can take the rest as a $25 check. so i'm just going by the cash you'd atually get, not what you potentially save. not like it's a bad thing to have store credit though )

I have several EPSON printers, but I've no clue which came from which store (Best Buy, Circuit City etc).

I wonder if not knowing is a deal-killer or not?

/me runs to storage room to check for epson printers...

[quote1ffb62f15d="Aurelius"]http//www.epsonsettlement.com/index.htm

$25 for each printer that you have that qualifies (the list is huge, so dont' worry) but you have to register each one.. and i can't remember my date of purchase (

o wells... hope this is helpful to some people D +kma is nice if you get your money[/quote1ffb62f15d]
date of purchase just needs month and year )
also, if u made the purchase with your cc company you can call them to find out if u know where u made it. i am mailing my stuff out monday for my r200 purchase

Dammit I sold my epson on ebay like two weeks ago.

[quoteffa4dabd58="JordanE"]Dammit I sold my epson on ebay like two weeks ago.[/quoteffa4dabd58]

thinking abotu selling mine too. doubt anyone would want an old as crap color stylus though. are laser printers better in terms of cost for the refill cartridges? i'm sick of going to costco and paying 50 bucks for a pack of two ink cartridges that run out in a month. would also be nice to get one with a scanner on it

What i do is buy like $100 printers and than sell them as soon as they need ink. I can't remember the exact model I had but I bought it for like $100 it takes six cartridges and each where like $12 but it sold on ebay without any ink for like $60 so I olny had to pay an extra $40 to get a brand new printer with ink.

are generic inks any good? like the ones from that online shop that's an offer on some freebie site?

I've never tried them before.

Looks like I'll score on this settlement then, as I have SEVEN qualifying Epson printers in use at home. ) For $8 I bought an Epson chip reset tool on eBay that resets the IC on the Epson cartridges so they think they're full again. I get anywhere from 10 - 50 additional pages/photos out of a cartridge after it is supposedly "empty." I'll still take the payment, thank you very much. ;)

[quote1421f49320="Aurelius"]are generic inks any good? like the ones from that online shop that's an offer on some freebie site?[/quote1421f49320]
Not for Epson printers. Epson printheads (which are not part of the cartridge like HP's) have extremely small picoliter nozzles. Epson ink is specially formulated to work with those nozzles -- cheap generic ink will clog and ruin most modern Epson printers. I ruined a C80 this way, and a printer technician explained to me how he sees it all the time with Epson printers and generic inks. With many other brands you can get away with generics, and with OLD Epson's you could, but with anything made in the last 5 years or so it's a bad idea. Epson really is on the cutting edge with regards to ink R&D, and they pretty much rule the roost for quality of their ink and paper. I use nothing but Epson OEM ink in my printers now, and haven't had a problem since.

That 100% Guaranteed Compatible line that the generic ink vendors give is BS. They fill all their generic cartridges from the same bulk ink, and the ink doesn't hold up well at all for photos and stuff. Plus Epson will void your warranty if you use a generic ink and it screws up your printer.

[quote9e4ce61edf="dmorris68"]Looks like I'll score on this settlement then, as I have SEVEN qualifying Epson printers in use at home. ) For $8 I bought an Epson chip reset tool on eBay that resets the IC on the Epson cartridges so they think they're full again. I get anywhere from 10 - 50 additional pages/photos out of a cartridge after it is supposedly "empty." I'll still take the payment, thank you very much. ;)

[quote9e4ce61edf="Aurelius"]are generic inks any good? like the ones from that online shop that's an offer on some freebie site?[/quote9e4ce61edf]
Not for Epson printers. Epson printheads (which are not part of the cartridge like HP's) have extremely small picoliter nozzles. Epson ink is specially formulated to work with those nozzles -- cheap generic ink will clog and ruin most modern Epson printers. I ruined a C80 this way, and a printer technician explained to me how he sees it all the time with Epson printers and generic inks. With many other brands you can get away with generics, and with OLD Epson's you could, but with anything made in the last 5 years or so it's a bad idea. Epson really is on the cutting edge with regards to ink R&D, and they pretty much rule the roost for quality of their ink and paper. I use nothing but Epson OEM ink in my printers now, and haven't had a problem since.

That 100% Guaranteed Compatible line that the generic ink vendors give is BS. They fill all their generic cartridges from the same bulk ink, and the ink doesn't hold up well at all for photos and stuff. Plus Epson will void your warranty if you use a generic ink and it screws up your printer.[/quote9e4ce61edf]

well i've accidently put in a used ink cartridge back in and it accepted it and said it was full again, so is a chip really necessary? ) what to get first, new camera or new printer... or if efg comes through with that check soon, both

[quote32eddb7674="Aurelius"]well i've accidently put in a used ink cartridge back in and it accepted it and said it was full again, so is a chip really necessary? [/quote32eddb7674]
In a recent Epson printer? The chip could have spontaneously reset due to a static discharge or something. The whole point of the chips is so you can't just remove and reinsert the cartridge. If you reinstall a used cartridge, it lishouldli remember where it left off. I've never had one spontaneously reset, but anything is possible.

The chip contains a tiny bit of static RAM with a page counter. The reason it is so inaccurate is that it just counts pages and assumes an estimated ink usage per page. If you use less than that per page, your cartridge will "run out" even though it really has ink left in it. I've had some that hit really close -- like I reset it and get only 3 or 4 more pages. Then I've had some that seemed to last almost as long again as when new out of the box.