Epson driver updates

[dwynnehugh]

I have an Epson WF-2650WF printer in which I am using re-fillable cartridges. I don’t know if it’s me or what, but I have a feeling that every time Epson auto ‘updates’ my drivers, soon afterwards the printer fails to recognise the ‘non-oem’ cartridges.

Me or has anyone else had the same feelings?

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[JayCeeDee]

I’ve got the 2630WF and I’ve not noticed those two things happening together. I do notice the non-Epson ink reminder, but just click through it.

Overall it’s been a good printer now for about two years. Only occasional use, but when it does get used, it gets hammered.

[Dave Rice]

If your printer is functioning OK, don’t update the drivers.

[dwynnehugh]

Thanks Dave, I purchased these non oems in Nov 2016 and the cyan fails recognition by the printer, seem to remember after the last driver update before Nov 2016 something similar happened – could be just coincidence!

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[JayCeeDee]

Under normal circumstances, I’d agree, but Epson have got the persistent nagging/reminders off to a fine art. ?

[dwynnehugh]

Strange – a friend had a similar problem with non-oem cartridges – so he called me. Seemed that he had some faulty cartridges as none could be seen by the printer – another Epson jobbie. He rang the company he purchased them from and when asked he said that the cartridges had been awaiting use for 12 months – the company replaced them for him with a comment that Epson had recently changed either the ‘software’ or the small PCBs to the rear of the cartridges and ones that had worked perfectly would now no longer work.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[Bob Williams]

Everyone has different needs for their printers: for many it’s just a case of knocking out a document, spreadsheet, letter or webpage copy/whatever, whenever. Compatible cart’s are therefore good enough for the needs, that’s OK unless you run into the kind of hassle that is always being reported about Epson. My son & grandson both have Epsons and they had the problem of refusing compatibles originally. Now, after a few years of use, both printers acccept the compat’s and happily print away.

I ask a lot of my printer, in terms of reproduction. My last career was as a self-employed designer and printer of business stationery, entertainment packs and brochures, and prospectuses for Independent schools. I needed the best reproduction I could get and I always had the best A3+ HP printer I could afford, using nothing but HP genuine Inktanks and Printheads. When I retired, I sold the HP monster and bought an A4 Hp Photosmart C5380, a 5-cartridge printer that has great reproduction: now almost 8 years old and still good. I still always use genuine HP cartridges, because I like to print out my own photos. I know that I can get them done cheaply on the High Street, but the actual editing and printing of my own photos, is an activity that I really enjoy. I have actually made a problem for myself, by designing and printing almost 100 Invitations for my granddaughter’s upcoming 21st. birthday party. So many have asked her who designed and printed them, that I have several requests for other work. I am considering this: at 72, should I begin again, despite  (because of?)  objections from my dear SWMBO? I think yes, but will choose my jobs on a case-by-case basis. More pension support is always useful. Don’t absolutely need it, but will definitely use it! Here I go again…

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[dwynnehugh]

I have both a Epson Workforce and Epson Photo 1400 printers as well as a Canon MX7600 and Brother HL-L2300D printers – I generally only need to print off legal papers – sometimes by the 100s – so quality of ink on the paper is not really an issue as long as it is legible. The 1400 under OCP ink does give good results but probably not as good as Epson carts – but then I don’t really need it and if I have to produce albums of exhibit photographs a quick trip to Tesco is cheaper.

The more you meet people the more you understand why Noah took animals instead of humans

[JayCeeDee]

Bob Williams wrote:

When I retired, I sold the HP monster and bought an A4 Hp Photosmart C5380, a 5-cartridge printer that has great reproduction: now almost 8 years old and still good. I still always use genuine HP cartridges, because I like to print out my own photos. I know that I can get them done cheaply on the High Street, but the actual editing and printing of my own photos, is an activity that I really enjoy. I have actually made a problem for myself, by designing and printing almost 100 Invitations for my granddaughter’s upcoming 21st. birthday party. So many have asked her who designed and printed them, that I have several requests for other work. I am considering this: at 72, should I begin again, despite (because of?) objections from my dear SWMBO? I think yes, but will choose my jobs on a case-by-case basis. More pension support is always useful. Don’t absolutely need it, but will definitely use it! Here I go again…

 

There’s that conversation about “retirement” we had from the other Topic!!? If you get any input/direction from SWMBO, just ask her should you occupy your time doing her odd-jobs, or earn enough for a new dress or two for her next Summer.

Be thankful for the one you’ve got – mine has a history of self-employment where you always took on whatever work was required to pay bills ( this years/next years/ the one after that……) because you never knew when it wouldn’t be there, and has carried this principle into my retirement.?

[Bob Williams]

Oh, you don’t know how many ‘careers’ I’ve had! Seems like I was always working at something, from 8 years old. When I actually retired, if I had not found computing, might have gone stark staring bonkers.

Butcher boy, paper rounds (x3) farm lab0urer. That took me up to 16. Merchant seaman, collier, soldier/Air Tech, garage workshop foreman, Legal services secretary, (retrained after disability) then first self-employment as a designer/printer.

Now Granddad’s taxi service (unpaid) and SWMBO’s odd-job man (ditto) Neighbourhood tech and IT resource when they can catch me.

Don’t like inactivity, seen too many retired mates veg out and develop problems. Two are in Care Homes, Alzheimers.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[JayCeeDee]

She’s very much the same. Her abiding principle as she grew older ( and for a period, sicker, ) has been “Use it, or lose it.” hence the fact that both her back surgery and her hip ( x2 ) surgeries have been postponed by the consultants ” …..until you feel the need to have it done.” For now, yoga, pilates, Tai Chi, Aqua-fit exercises, gym, etc, all fulfill the function of keeping her mobile. Oh and an hour ( or two )  -long walks down the beach at Minnis Bay.

Job wise, she started young as well. She lived at the time around the corner from Portobello Market and as a 5/6 year old, she cleaned the rust off bike wheels and frames with wire wool for a guy who had a stall down there. Plus part time jobs when time permitted – she was the eldest of three at the time, later of seven – and did all the running around for the family, collecting shopping or coal in the pushchair or pram. As she grew older, 9 – 13, she would do shopping for all the elderly neighbours, negotiating a discount at the local shops for herself when she went there with their orders. She was a market trader before she actually used the Markets to trade!! When she took over the business she had worked in as a salesgirl ( fruit and flower shop, then stall ) in ’87, she was one of very few women buying in New Covent Garden Fruit Market, women were better represented in the Flower Market, but not by much. Never one to back down from a challenge – probably why we’ve stayed together for so long!!?

[Bob Williams]

Wow your missus sounds like a female London version of me! Hard – working lady.

I was 5 when I first started errand-running, had 2 brothers 15 & 17 years older than me, oldest taught me to read and write when I was 3! Big bro taught me to use a book for errands, I used to go to the village shops on the trusty tricycle he bought me, which had a boot in the back between rear wheels. I knew most of the Co Op Dividend numbers in the village! Reason I had a trike first was the inherited Ricketts all 3 of us had: big bro had leg irons as a kid, I had huge long boots with steel inserts. Middle bro had really bowed legs. We all started with that trike until we had enough leg strength to handle a bike and roller skates. Big bro was a gymnast, I played football and eventually became a distance runner. Middle bro was just a Class 1, Grade A, 22 Carat pillock, still is at 86.

Dad and bro’s were miners, I tried it but hated it. From 8, my dad was injured for the first time and spent almost a year at home on crutches. There was no money at home and I went to the local butcher, got a delivery job. They would not allow an 8yo to do that now! I eventually took a paper round, then an evening one, then Sundays. From 8 until leaving school I would deliver papers morning and night, get up at 6 am on Saturdays, clean butchers windows, shop floor and tables, deliver meat on the basket bike. When I started Technical School it was 8 miles from home: some mornings I would bus it, mostly bike it after papers, come home and deliver evening papers in school uniform. Even when dad was back at work, I had got used to all that and carried on. I added Farm Labourer after leaving school, before I could get a place at Merchant Navy Training School 3 months later, still delivering papers and meat. I worked out that I was 30 bob a week worse off when I started at sea!

A neighbour and very good friend who knows all this once said “Kids wouldn’t do that now!” They would if they had to, I said, but be thankful that they don’t. I had to, no choice.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[JayCeeDee]

I think it might have something to do with a common heritage. Go back a few generations in her line and you find they were a mixture of barge folk and Romany.

Only in her case, being the eldest, all the rest looked up to her, as she was really more like a Mum than big sister.

[Bob Williams]

Think I mentioned before that my Gran was Romany, lovely, tiny lady but very strong, born 1878 in a caravan somewhere in the West Country. 13 children, 8 lived past infancy. Her meals were fantastic, full of veg and herbs she collected. Granddad was very Victorian, quite strict but gran had ways around his rules that baffled him, despite him being well educated. Never knew how they got together. I spent a lot of time at their cottage as a child. Granddad died in 1954, gran until 1967. I had leave while she was ill in what they used to call a Sanatorium, dad sat one side of her bed, me the other. Dad made a bit of a joke at gran’s expense and she asked him to lean over, then walloped him in the ear. “Oi told ‘ee afore, never too late fer a smack!” I cracked up. She passed a couple of days later, I loved that tough old lady.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

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