Just curious if anyone has seen replacements chips for the printheads and also the "Color lockouts" (the part where the ink goes into the printheads).
Just bought a "remanufactured" Cyan on ebay (discountinkllc), thing works ok, but chip was "out of warranty" and looks quite used. If these guys are remanufacturing the printheads and do not have access to replacement chips then I am not very hopeful. I am 99% sure that half of the old printheads I've kept are perfectly usable using the manual cleaning and priming method (see this vid), but the chips simply will not allow them to be installed (I have tested this by converting a yellow printhead to a cyan successfully).
Oh and I advise not even attempting taking the 5500 printheads apart (aside from the color lockouts), the gasket makes it near impossible to put back together properly and then they need to be glued on top of that.
Just bought a "remanufactured" Cyan on ebay (discountinkllc), thing works ok, but chip was "out of warranty" and looks quite used. If these guys are remanufacturing the printheads and do not have access to replacement chips then I am not very hopeful. I am 99% sure that half of the old printheads I've kept are perfectly usable using the manual cleaning and priming method (see this vid), but the chips simply will not allow them to be installed (I have tested this by converting a yellow printhead to a cyan successfully).
Oh and I advise not even attempting taking the 5500 printheads apart (aside from the color lockouts), the gasket makes it near impossible to put back together properly and then they need to be glued on top of that.