Since I posted my evaluation of the eufyMake E1 UV printer a 12 months in the past, I’ve been upfront that I believe it’s a tremendous machine with two huge “gotchas.” The primary is the upkeep, which is extra sophisticated than eufyMake has implied of their advertising. The second is the ink, which is available in proprietary and costly cartridges. Upkeep remains to be a priority, however iMakeStuff discovered a technique for utilizing third-party ink in a eufyMake E1 UV printer.
Earlier than we go additional, you will need to word that this may in all probability void your guarantee. Web folks will say a printer producer can’t void your guarantee for utilizing third-party ink. However that isn’t fairly true. They will if they’ll make a case that the ink you used wasn’t acceptable for the printer {hardware}. And since UV printing is so delicate to ink, I believe they’d in all probability have a superb likelihood of successful.
However in case you’re courageous and don’t care about warranties, this may very well be price doing.
This system is definitely quite simple: simply put a gap within the cartridge with a soldering iron, add a threaded insert for a plug, use a syringe to inject third-party ink into the opening, then cap it. iMakeStuff demonstrated that in a video just a few days in the past.
Nevertheless, that video left us with a few questions: can eufyMake stop this and what occurs when the software program thinks you’ve used all of the ink?
I can reply the primary query for you: it might be trivial for eufyMake to stop you from doing this, in the event that they select to. All it might take is a firmware or software program replace that doesn’t enable printing with a particular cartridge after that cartridge’s ink must be gone.
iMakeStuff answered the second query in his most up-to-date video. You may, certainly, hold printing even after the software program thinks the ink cartridge is empty. However once more, you will need to word that that is solely a “for now” sort of factor and eufyMake can put a cease to this at any time.
