ColourKid
Getting Fingers Dirty
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I'm looking into buying a set of refillable CLI-521 carts, with an auto reset chip (ARC), to fill with a good quality ink. Before I used compatible disposable ones, which is more expensive and the ink quality is often unknown.
I also refilled cartridges a lot, and used a chip resetter, which worked for a while, but now the resetter stopped working (battery is ok).
Is there some way to refill carts but still being able to see the ink level? Are the ARCs capable of that? Also how do they work? What if the printer cord is unplugged? I read mixed stories about this.
For example here I read "The chips can show ink level at the first time. When the Chips run out of data, we can Shield chip data information, then the chip will work again. The only difference is the chip will not show ink level. " Whatever that means exactly.
But this looks like the same product but says: "The chips on the cartridges are automatically reset when installing the cartridges, ink level is then 100% and will drop according to consumption. You don't have to do anything for this yourself."
And here we have "Please pay attention that you do not disconnect the printer from the power supply; otherwise the level indicator may not work correctly any more. Shutting down the printer has no influence." This indicates that it should work but you cannot unplug the power.
So to me it's unclear what the ARC does.
(This is for an old MX-870 with which I print photos and everything else.)
I also refilled cartridges a lot, and used a chip resetter, which worked for a while, but now the resetter stopped working (battery is ok).
Is there some way to refill carts but still being able to see the ink level? Are the ARCs capable of that? Also how do they work? What if the printer cord is unplugged? I read mixed stories about this.
For example here I read "The chips can show ink level at the first time. When the Chips run out of data, we can Shield chip data information, then the chip will work again. The only difference is the chip will not show ink level. " Whatever that means exactly.
But this looks like the same product but says: "The chips on the cartridges are automatically reset when installing the cartridges, ink level is then 100% and will drop according to consumption. You don't have to do anything for this yourself."
And here we have "Please pay attention that you do not disconnect the printer from the power supply; otherwise the level indicator may not work correctly any more. Shutting down the printer has no influence." This indicates that it should work but you cannot unplug the power.
So to me it's unclear what the ARC does.
(This is for an old MX-870 with which I print photos and everything else.)
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