Having trouble getting your new cartridge to fit into your printer or is the new cartridge just not printing anything? Here are a couple things to check when faced with either of these issues: When handling the cartridge, please be careful not to touch the electronic strip or the print head. Cartridge doesn’t fit You …
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Guides relating to ink cartridges, toner cartridges and printers in general.
Different Types of Photo Paper
...from a tray under the printer may find paper thickness limited to around 200gsm. If however you are using a laser printer, we strongly recommend being cautious when using photo paper. The heat applied by laser printers means that the surface of gloss, satin or resin coated papers can melt in laser printers, causing damage to the inside of the printer. We recommend only buying specialist photo papers that are listed as safe for use in laser printe...
HP OfficeJet 4650: Printer Basics
...ated process that is easy to access. The ‘Cartridge Head Clean’ detailed below pushes ink through the respective printhead and will hopefully dislodge anything causing print quality issues. To perform a ‘Cartridge Head Clean’ directly from your printer, please follow the simple steps below. Swipe along the screen until the Setup option is visible. Press Setup from this menu. Press Tools from this menu. Finally, press Clean Cartridges from this men...
How to use an Epson Chip Resetter
...s the printer will treat the machine differently one the ink lever drops below 15%. Can I reset my compatible ink cartridge? The short answer is… probably. Whilst all of our own remanufactured/compatible Epson ink cartridges can be reset by their corresponding resetters, there are so many different variations on the market, that no resetter will be able to deal with everything available with your printer. Epson chip resetters have been designed wi...
Clearing the Canon “Check Ink” 1401, 1687 and 1485 Error Messages
...if however your Canon Pixma printer is still presenting you with the Check Ink 1401, 1687 or 1485 error message then it may be that the you have a more serious problem with your printer electronically. Sadly the troubleshooting above is not a guaranteed fix and in some cases intervention by Canon or a printer technician may be needed. If however your printer is still under warranty you should be able to get it fixed free of charge. What printers d...
How to Clear the Canon Check Ink 1686 and 1688 Error Messages
...ridge or detecting fresh ink. Instead the cartridge just monitors how many pages have been printed and the average page coverage since it was first installed into a printer. From this information your printer estimates the ink level of the cartridge and when it believes the ink cartridge is running low/empty will present you with the “Check Ink” 1686 or 1688 message. As a result of this way of estimating ink levels, even an original Ca...
