It is hard to find a better quality printer than an Epson. You are almost guaranteed good prints with Epson products. Knowing when to change your ink cartridge will help you maintain that good quality.
Epson makes it easy to know when it is time to replace your cartridge. They put a light on the printer that flashes when the ink is running low.
Second, with any Epson printer made in the last several years, the status monitor software that runs on your computer will also warn you when your ink is getting low.
The only thing is that at times these warnings do not come at exactly the right time. Sometimes the warning is premature and sometimes it comes late.
If you're printing a large number of pages or pictures, the ink level warning may come too late. When you get the warning, the ink cartridges usually have somewhere around 15-20% of the ink left. This may not be enough to finish the job once it starts.
And if you're only printing a couple of pages at a time, that 15-20% may last for quite a while still. The warning will often make people replace the ink right away, however this wastes what ink is left in the cartridge.
It may be a better idea to continue to print until the cartridges is completely out of ink. That way you get the full value from your ink cartridges.
If you're printing a large job, you may want to consider changing the ink before you start. While you might waste a bit of ink, it's not as bad as getting halfway through the print job and running out of ink, making you start all over again anyway. - 16039
Epson makes it easy to know when it is time to replace your cartridge. They put a light on the printer that flashes when the ink is running low.
Second, with any Epson printer made in the last several years, the status monitor software that runs on your computer will also warn you when your ink is getting low.
The only thing is that at times these warnings do not come at exactly the right time. Sometimes the warning is premature and sometimes it comes late.
If you're printing a large number of pages or pictures, the ink level warning may come too late. When you get the warning, the ink cartridges usually have somewhere around 15-20% of the ink left. This may not be enough to finish the job once it starts.
And if you're only printing a couple of pages at a time, that 15-20% may last for quite a while still. The warning will often make people replace the ink right away, however this wastes what ink is left in the cartridge.
It may be a better idea to continue to print until the cartridges is completely out of ink. That way you get the full value from your ink cartridges.
If you're printing a large job, you may want to consider changing the ink before you start. While you might waste a bit of ink, it's not as bad as getting halfway through the print job and running out of ink, making you start all over again anyway. - 16039
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