Originally Posted by swifty7

I've heard that Epson has been meticulous this time around to prevent compatible inks to work with their newer printers, they don't want to loose money on inks this time like they did with the R220. Meritline offers Epson compatible inks for very cheap but I don't know if the chip they use work with the R280 even though they state that their latest ink cartridges use a newer chip.