I've never seen true unlimited chips on a Mimaki that didn't have some sort of chip writer built in. Usually you have to push a button or send a command from a piece of software to reset them. That's not to say they don't exist but I have yet to encounter them. I don't sell that kind of system but I have installed one from Triangle inks that had re-writable chips and a re-setter that would work semi-permanently. The re-setter would only have a set amount of recharges and would need to be refreshed by Triangle eventually. So it uses some sort of serial number system that the machine remembers is my guess.