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Deactivate the ink level counter on the Epson 4000
Make it so your cartridges always read full
This procedure should be used with care!
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Turn off the ink counter on your 4000
Warning - getting this wrong could well mess up your printer, so do it at your own risk (this info is from Lyson and they won't take responsibility for damage either!)
In these notes
- the Character < represents the left arrow
- the Character > represents the right arrow
- the Character ^ represents the up arrow
- the Character ¥ represents the down arrow
Start with the printer turned OFF.
- Press and hold the < + ^ + > buttons and power up the machine.
- When the LCD display shows SELF TESTING, release all buttons.
- Press ¥ until you see SERVICE CONFIG on the display.
- Press > once, the display will read CHG DEVICE-ID.
- Press ¥ until the display shows ED MODE.
- Press > and the display reads *X
- Press ¥ the display reads 0
- Press > the display reads: *0
- Power the printer off.
- Power the printer on.
The printer will power up and show 'Ready' with (0XXXXXXXX) at the ink cartridge status bars.
This setting is written to the printer eprom and won't change when the power is switched on and off.
Remember that with the big 220ml carts you would only need to use a chip resetter fairly infrequently - this would be my own choice
Cleaning dried ink
You really only need to check out the household products line at your local supermarket ;-)
I've written a short guide about 'cleaning inkjet printers'
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