With the help of this post, you will be able to reset Epson Waste Ink Counter / Pad errors.
If one day, while printing your Epson printer stops working and the front lights are blinking red it might be the time to change your pads, printers occasionally have small error like paper jam, out of ink in the cartridge, and more serious error as the full printer pads.
Once you have reached 5000 pages limit your Epson printer will send you this error message to let you know that you have used up your print limit and you need to change the printer pads before can continue printing, to do so you can buy a new pads or just reset the old one and they will work just as good as new, with our WIC Reset Tool you are going to solve this situation, our WIC Reset Tool will renew the printer pads and help you at the same time to clean your printer’s head and remind you before you will have the next error.
Just make a payment and we will send you the instruction to follow by email, remember our products are 100% customers satisfaction guaranteed. If you are not able to reset your printer pads with our WIC we will make a full refund.
About Epson Waste Ink Counter overflow error
What is Waste Ink Counter
Epson inkjet printers have inside a part of sponge for absorbing and collecting waste inks. It is called waste ink pad.
Ink is collected by waste ink pads during the initial setup of the product, during cleaning cycles and when printing borderless photographs. While printhead cleaning process ink flush through printhead to waste ink pad.
So one time it can be overflowed because it could not absorb ink anymore then the ink will leak from the bottom of the printer.
The printer counts how much ink flow to waste ink pad and stores this number into printer’s memory.
This number is called Protection Counter or Waste Ink Counter.
So to prevent ink leaking outside the printer the waste ink counter may be overflowed and printer will stop.
Waste ink counter overflow
During Epson’s printer cleaning cycle, it dispels ink from its nozzles down a waste pipe into an absorbent pad.
Epson has put a counter in their printers that counts every page passed through the printer and has set the printer to shut down after a certain number to prevent overflow of the waste ink pad. Usually, your printer’s waste pad is around 40% to 80% full when the printer starts showing an error message.
After the initial message, you can only print 20 pages before your Epson printer refuses to print anymore. There is a workaround that you can use to reset the counter to its initial state. Follow these steps to solve “Epson waste ink pad in the printer is saturated” error.
To get printer working again – You have to RESET the Waste Ink Counter with WIC Reset Tool.
How to know Epson printer waste ink counter has overflowed?
We have three signs to know your Epson printer waste ink counter has overflowed.
2. If the printer has LCD screen, the LCD screen will give an error: “The Printer’s Ink Pads at the end of Their service life. Please contact Epson Support”. You can fix this error by using WICReset and Reset Key to Reset Waste Ink Counters
3. Computer show error “The Printer’s Ink Pads at the end of Their service life. Please contact Epson Support”
To be sure, you can check the Waste Ink Counter by WIC Reset Tool
+ Download WIC Reset Tool here, then install WIC Reset Utility Tool
+ Connect your printer with computer by USB Cable, click “Read waste counters” to check Waste ink counters number
+ If one of counters more than 100%, your printer can fix by WIC Reset Tool by reset all counters to 0%
How to reset Epson Waste Ink Counter
Step 1: Download WIC Reset Tool
Download WIC Reset Utility for Windows
+ Download WIC Reset Tool for Windows (.zip)
+ Download WIC Reset Tool for Windows (.rar)
Download WIC Reset Utility Tool for Mac OS
– Download WIC Reset Tool for MAC
And install WIC Reset Tool to your computer.
Step 2: Buy the full reset key here (Only $8.99 / key)
Step 3: Make the reset to reset Epson printer’s Waste ink counters to 0% by following this guide: How to reset Waste ink counter
Source: Resetkey.net
