Sherpa 24M aka Epson 9600

[Christie080]

Hi my name is Christie,

I am in need of desperate help!

Quiet a few customers have the Sherpa 24M aka Epson Stylus 76/9600 and I have just come across a problem that this machine does not take the Epson Inks because Agfa has made the machine to only take the Agfa Inks even thought they are the same cartridges.

Now my question is, how do I convert from using Agfa cartridges to Epson??

If there is a way customers will save a lot of money and I need to know this in order for them to do this.

PLEASE HELP!!

[VladCanada]

Some of smart and handy guys just replace (use a solvent to unglue the chips) original AGFA Smart chips onto Epson cartriges and use Smart Chip eraser/resetter to make cartriges "full". Others just replace ink bag assy and reset AGFA Smart chip.
IMHO that's an endless battle between companies ans us for our money.
Next generation of printers use another advanced Smart chips with 9 pins instead of 7 and not eraseable.
What hackers could do in their next "serve" ?

[Christie080]

Is that the only way possible. Because that seems a bit of a mission, but there must be some way to actually convert it, the machine is an Epson and it's not AGFA based.

Like you said it only recognizes the AGFA chips but surely there should be some kind of software that overrides the system.

Thanks so much for your help!