Would using recycled ink cartridges cause my printer to not recoginze them?

Epson printers are definitely finicky when it comes to recycled inks. You may be able to resolve this issue by removing the cartridges, turning off the printer, unplugging it for 5 mins, and then powering it back up. THis often serves to reset the printer and should allow it to recognize that you've replaced the cartridges.

Yes. To keep people from refilling cartridges, several of major companies now put chips in them so that one they run out of ink, the chip turns off, the printer will no longer be able to recognize the cartridge or tell you how much ink is left in it.

It is also possible that the cartridge is defected. See that a lot with recycled cartridges. Also see a lot of them that streak and have other printing problems because the hardware in them is not designed to last through multiple reuses.

My experience has been that recycled cartridges do not save you money because their performance is so poor and you end up junking so many of them that they often cost you more money in the long run that buying new ones.

Recycled ink cartridges SUCK, get the genuine articles and your printer will print like new.

you get what you pay for. I use them a while ago and had problems but

the printer I have now doesn't have a problem, not in three year.

So some are good and some are not