Boyan

Now at the end of the year looking at the dualhead XP600, whats a good one that is actually a3+ and works with Cadlink or other proper RIP?  LInks or name of the provider in China please

Can you post a link to the damper please? Great job. I have 2 dead printers because of this

3 hours ago, johnson4 said:

Specifically: 

search: printers ( click manage the printer, or whatever method to find the printer)

go to: Printing Preferences

then: Utility

Then: Speed and Progress

Add A Check to: Disable Epson Status Monitor 3 Utility.

Save.

Disable The Wifi, by not connecting it to your wireless internet on the printer.

 

Once you've done this, you still need to power cycle the printer, I unplug it while it's on, press and hold the power button for a 30 seconds-minute. Replug, reboot, should be good to go. Sometimes you have to do that a couple times. However, once it's disabled properly, you won't need to deal with that again. 

 

I know it seems weird, but back in the day that's how they all were.  I don't think chip less came around until like 2016-2017 anyway. To me, It's fantastic, even with quirks. It beats paying OEM prices for ink chips all day long, even with some quirks. 

 

The reason the xp-15000 is a PITA is because its a newer " guaranteed epson genuine ink". Meaning, they auto push updates, and when they do it caues " fake" issues until you update it. When installing, they don't even give you the option of not updating the printer on them. I feel like all the new gen printers will be like this, which is why the old gen printers are getting more expensive and scarce. 

Thanks. 

Did all that. again reloaded firmware nw2017 ,successfully , registered successfully, but still printing blank pages. i wish i just bought the resettable cartridges. any idea what to do from here? if there is a way to load back epsons original firmware i will be happy to do that

17 minutes ago, johnson4 said:

Chipless does work, you just need to take pre caution to prevent Epson from causing these issues. 
 

disable the Epson status monitor, and disable the printers WiFi. Reset/restart the printer, works great. 

i can not find any other way of disabling the status monitor than unchecking all boxes   on the monitoring preferences.  i dont use the wifi and also there  seems to be no place from where to disable it

I have also the dreaded message with the error and will not print at all.  How to convert it back to Epson's firmware? 

Why they sell chipless for that printer if it will not work?

On 2/9/2021 at 3:12 PM, blitz091991 said:

i use the R2000 as well, the ink setup should be YMCK+WWWW

I am struggling with Acrorip. So this is both physical and software order, the same?