Popular Epson Photo Printers Must Be Updated, or New Ink Won’t Work

Epson says that due to the ongoing chip shortage, it was forced to alter the design of the Epson UltraChrome HD and HDX ink cartridges of all sizes. The quality of the ink won’t change, Epson assures, but any Epson SureColor P6000, P7000, P8000, or P9000 printers worldwide will need to be updated with new firmware before any new ink cartridges are placed in them, or nothing will work.
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The printers won’t allow an update to new firmware if they don’t recognize the ink cartridge, and the recognition of those cartridges will only happen once the firmware has been updated. Basically, if users don’t take care of the update before they get rid of old, empty cartridges, they’ll be stuck in a catch 22.