Find the Epson printer icon on your PC taskbar - this is usually at the bottom right of the screen, you may need to click the ^ button to show hidden icons.Ģ. Occasionally, the update may provide useful bug fixes or security changes, but most people find that having their entire cartridge stock disabled is too high a price to pay for this.ġ. Printer manufacturers use firmware updates as a back door method of disabling non-branded cartridges, essentially trying to force you to buy their own brand rather than a cheaper third party option. This is the only effect that you're likely to notice, and is particularly annoying if you've just put new cartridges in, or have a supply of back up stock.
If you have ever been using third party cartridges and one day found that the printer is suddenly refusing to recognise them, the chances are that you've had a firmware update. This update will make changes to the printer's internal software. It's not the same as a driver (which is the program that runs on a device such as a PC that allows it to talk to the printer) as it is entirely resident in the printer's internal memory.Īt regular intervals, printer manufacturers issue firmware updates, which download over an internet connection directly to the printer, usually in the background without alerting the user. Printer firmware is the software program that runs the printer.
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