A printing company found that on average a 700 ml cartridge still contains about 100ml of ink when the device reaches one percent capacity and has to be replaced, while “many times” they contain 150ml or more.
Bellevue Fine Arts also found that for a 350ml cartridge, 60 to 80ml of ink was left, in its experiments cutting open allegedly empty 9900 series cartridges, Boing Boing reported.
Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow said of the cartridges were “not an aberration. It’s not a coincidence that a company that can put its competitors in jail “accidentally” used s****y sensors that add a 20 percent premium to its $1,465 (€1,292) consumables”.
Bellevue said that “Epson needs to do a better job of ink measurement in their 9900 series printers. We throw away hundreds of dollars of ink every month.” The printing company has produced a video showing the ink being poured out of the ‘empty’ cartridges.