How To Reset An Ink Cartridge

You have probably noticed that sometimes your printer stops producing prints and shows an empty cartridge alert even if there is still ink left in the cartridge. In the case of using multi-color cartridges, the worst thing is that once one color cartridge is out of order, the whole inkjet printer stops working. In this situation, resetting an ink cartridge can solve your problem.

Moreover, using high-quality inks like HP DeskJet 3720 ink is another solution to avoid such issues. In this article, you will be learned certain ways that explain how to reset your ink cartridges. Thus, if you are looking for these ways, read on till the end.

How To Reset Ink Cartridges?

Following are the ways which will help you to know everything about resetting ink cartridges. They involve both treatments i.e general treatment regardless of specific brand cartridges and the treatment of specific cartridges like Epson or Canon etc. let’s move on

Reset An Ink Cartridge–The General Method

If you want to restore your cartridge, you should deal with its onboard memory. For that, all you have to do is reset the chip on it. The method of resetting the chip will be discussed in a few steps given below:

• First of all, you should locate the chip on the ink cartridge and then prepare a paper clip that should be bent at the end.

• Remove it from the printer safely.

• Find the reset button on the cartridge which is located near the circuit board.

• Now use one end of a paper clip to press the reset button for a few seconds.

• Finally, place it back into your printer and now you are ready to print the documents again.

How To Reset Ink Cartridges Using A Chip Resetter?

Some cartridges like Epson and others might be reset with a chip resetter. Various chip resetters made by third parties are available in the market. This chip resetter helps to refill or reuse the cartridges in your printer. The USB-powered model of it is recommended the most instead of battery-powered models. 

Chip technology is frequently used nowadays. This is because printer manufacturers do not let their customers refill or reuse ink cartridges. They have manufactured such chips which are only compatible with the cartridges that come with the original printer. Once they are out of ink, they become useless and the customers have to buy new ones instead of refilling them.

So with the help of a chip resetter, you will be able to reset or refill them.

How To Reset The Hp Ink Cartridge?

Resetting the HP cartridge is a bit different but easy process. HP does not design a reset button on their cartridges. So this process will only take a few minutes.

• Take your cartridge out of the printer and refill it if needed.

• Find the blue ink level contact and place a small piece of tape on it. Then place it back on the printer. And let the printer read it once and pull the cartridge out of it.

• Repeat the same process with the red and two other green ink-level contacts by covering them with the same tape and again, placing and removing them on the printer.

• After completing the whole cycle, your cartridges will be full and ready to use. 

How To Reset Canon Ink Cartridges?

Canon printers generally come with thermal print heads. They work properly until the ink stays in the cartridges because the cold ink let not overheat the print heads. But when they get empty, they might be damaged. So how to deal with this problem?

Canon printers are capable to memorize only four different chip serial numbers. What all you should do is replace and remove these four cartridges one by one and then replace the new or refilled cartridge with the old one. In this way, your printer should read the chip serial number of the new cartridge. 

How To Reset Epson Ink Cartridges?

Epson cartridges can also be reset in many different ways. Let’s walk through these ways in order to fix your cartridges quickly.

The first and easy way to reset the Epson ink cartridges is using the chip resetter software. With the help of this software, you could reset them in a few minutes. This will go through a small process in your printer display. 

Besides, many chip-reset devices are designed electronically for that purpose. The only thing to be considered while resetting them with the device is to make sure whether the printer model is compatible with the device.

Moreover, they might be reset with the help of using the general method in which you only need to reset the chip with help of a paper chip on them. 

Why Do You Need To Reset Ink Cartridges?

There might be many common reasons for resetting ink cartridges. Almost all the printers are featured with a chip that remembers the data. It particularly examines the ink levels of the cartridge according to its memory and provides instructions to the printer. But sometimes, this chip is unable to read the cartridges and the printer shows errors. Following are some reasons why you need to reset ink cartridges.

• The printer shows errors like a low or empty cartridge even if the ink is available in the cartridge and stops printing.
• You have installed an update released from the printer manufacturers and your cartridges have stopped working.
• You just have put in a new cartridge but your printer shows an error and does not print documents.

Besides, there could many other possible reasons that is why your printer is causing errors and needed to be reset. 

Conclusion

Resetting an ink cartridge is a time taking process but with a little patience, it might be done easily. The general method of resetting ink cartridges is applicable to all kinds of ink cartridges. However, in case of unexpected results, you need to apply different reset methods with different cartridges models. The idea of knowing the reasons behind these errors that occur within your printer is great as it will lead to the solution to the problem. Thus, resetting ink cartridges not only saves your time but stops wasting a lot of money on buying a new cartridge.    

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