Ink cartridges are printer cartridges that contain ink and are used by inkjet printers . Your printer needs ink cartridges to print.
Ink cartridges work with inkjet printers . Inkjet printers typically use more than one printer cartridge to print . Most inkjet printers use a combination of two or four cartridges, but more specialized printers such as photo printers may require 6 to 12 ink cartridges.
The most common inkjet printers use:
- Two cartridges:one black and one tricolor cartridge.
- Four cartridges:black, cyan, magenta, and yellow cartridges.
More advanced photo printers like the Canon PIXMA Pro-100 use 8 ink cartridges (black, cyan, magenta, yellow, photo cyan, photo magenta, gray and light gray ink cartridges) to be able to produce images with a wider color gamut. wide.
What is ink?
Ink is the liquid inside the cartridge that creates an impression . This ink can be pigment-based or dye-based, depending on the series of cartridges . Dye-based ink is more common and is ideal for producing vibrant color prints and photographs.
One drawback is that the ink is not waterproof and can be susceptible to smearing. Pigment-based ink lacks the brilliance of dye-based ink, but offers a sharper finish and faster drying time .
Prized for its ability to print archival-quality images, pigment ink can resist fading for up to 200 years. The amount of ink in a cartridge varies from 8 ml to 127 ml depending on your inkjet printer.
Normal HP or Epson inkjet cartridges contain only a small volume of ink, while ink tanks for CISS printers have a larger ink capacity.
Most printer models use ink cartridges that have a built-in chip . This chip monitors the level of ink inside the cartridge . But the memory on these chips is notoriously inaccurate. This is why you will sometimes get an error message saying it is out even when there is ink left in the printer.
When you are low on ink, you will see a warning indicator light on the printer’s LCD screen .
In some cases, printing activities may stop if the cartridge is empty. You will need to turn off the printer, remove the vacuum, and replace it. Once the cartridge is replaced with new ink, you can restore power to the printer, power on the machine, and resume printing.
The chip fulfills a couple of functions. It tells the printer what color ink it is printing and verifies that it is a usable cartridge . If you own an inkjet printer, you may want to consider resetting your ink cartridges whenever you get low ink warnings.
Clearing the memory can give you a more accurate picture of your printer’s ink levels , the number of pages still available to print, and other valuable printing information.
One of the biggest expenses a computer user has, once it is configured and ready to go, is replacing ink cartridges when they are empty . The printers themselves have been offered at little or no cost. This is called a loss leader.
Printer manufacturers understand that they are not really in the business of making printers for profit, but rather in the business of making printer ink. Once you have your printer, you must buy its ink at high prices .
Fortunately for computer users, not printer ink manufacturers, a way has been found to refill ink cartridges without paying the high prices of ink manufacturers. The ink manufacturers are not happy about this.
They fought with smart computer chips that only allow their ink cartridges to work in their printers when they are filled or made by their licensed printer ink companies . This was clever, but not clever enough.
In the case of Epson printers, a device has been invented that “resets” the computer chip to say that the ink cartridge is a real Epson ink cartridge that was purchased at full price, and not a refilled cartridge. This device is called a “chip resetter”.
What the chip resetter does is tell the “smart chip”, which Epson installs in your printers , that the ink cartridge is a new cartridge . Essentially, the smart chip is tricked by the chip’s resetter into thinking that the empty cartridge it contains is new and licensed as such.
All you need to do is remove the cartridge, refill it, and reinstall it into the Epson printer . You are ready to go.
There is also a more “improvised” way, which we will explain below.
All this is quite simple. We will only use a paper clip.
Paso 1
We start by bending one of the ends of our clip out, it should be at a 90° angle to the rest of our clip.
Paso 2
You must remove the cartridge from your printer, look at its base. You should be able to see a clip with a small hole underneath.
Paso 3
Insert the clip into the hole and then you should press down.
Paso 4
Insert the cartridge back into your printer and continue printing as if nothing had happened!
There are a few things to consider when thinking about a chip resetter. First, it works for quite a few printer models and cartridge models, but not all . Check that your printer is compatible. Second, the people who created the chip resetter also need to make a living so that the resetter doesn’t work forever.