How To Know When It s Time To Change Your Epson Printer Ink

Epson printers offer some of the best output quality among the various printer brands. The cartridges play a big part in this, and it's important to know when to change them in order to continue getting the quality you're used to from your printer.

There are two major indications that the time for a new ink cartridge has arrived. First, the flashing indicator light on the front of the printer will warn you. 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.

There are two problems with these indicators - they may warn you either too early or too late that you're running out of ink.

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 are ususally 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.

The fact is, you can run the printer right until the ink cartridges are completely empty. Once they run out of ink entirely, you can replace them then. This lets you get the maximum use from the cartridges, without wasting any ink.

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.

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