The chips have 9 pins on there, so likely one of the pins is missing on the chip reader IC. Take a photo of the pins, and we can confirm for sure. That said, it sounds like a damaged pin pending any extra pointers to better see.
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The Epson chips are 9 pin, so likely one of the pins is missing on the chip reader IC. Take a photo of the pins, and we can confirm for sure. That said, it sounds like a damaged pin pending any extra pointers to better see.
The other thing I see a lot is 3rd party carts with bad clone chips, or failed OEM Epson chips that were reset (or the reset failed and it bricked the chip), OR the chip was at 25% capacity and the chip was write locked against resetting and the remanufactuer does not know that occurs with 88/68/99-present Epson chips. Multiple installations works on flaky 3rd party chips, but not a bricked OEM reset or hard locked OEM.
You could try another cartridge and see, but if 2 fail then you probably have damage at the printer side.
The chips have 9 pins on there, so likely one of the pins is missing on the chip reader IC. Take a photo of the pins, and we can confirm for sure. That said, it sounds like a damaged pin pending any extra pointers to better see. The other thing I see a lot is 3rd party carts with bad clone chips, or failed OEM Epson chips that were reset (or the reset failed and it bricked the chip), OR the chip was at 25% capacity and the chip was write locked against resetting and the remanufactuer does not know that occurs with 88/68/99-present Epson chips.
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The chips have 9 pins on there, so likely one of the pins is missing on the chip reader IC. Take a photo of the pins, and we can confirm for sure. That said, it sounds like a damaged pin pending any extra pointers to better see.
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The other thing I see a lot is 3rd party carts with bad clone chips, or failed OEM Epson chips that were reset (or the reset failed and it bricked the chip), OR the chip was at 25% capacity and the chip was write locked against resetting and the remanufactuer does not know that occurs with 88/68/99-present Epson chips. Multiple installations works on flaky 3rd party chips, but not a bricked OEM reset or hard locked OEM.
You could try another cartridge and see, but if 2 fail then you probably have damage at the printer side.
The chips have 9 pins on there, so likely one of the pins is missing on the chip reader IC. Take a photo of the pins, and we can confirm for sure. That said, it sounds like a damaged pin pending any extra pointers to better see. The other thing I see a lot is 3rd party carts with bad clone chips, or failed OEM Epson chips that were reset (or the reset failed and it bricked the chip), OR the chip was at 25% capacity and the chip was write locked against resetting and the remanufactuer does not know that occurs with 88/68/99-present Epson chips.
You could try another cartridge and see, but if 2 fail then you probably have damage at the printer side.