JT, thanks for sharing that valuable tech tip. I remember occasionally using this tip, but it has been quite a few years since I've had to deal with DeskJet style printers that I had completely forgot about it. Resetting the inkjet cartridge circuit board memory is a great and simple money-saving tip for recalibrating the cartridge for optimal use and longevity of printer ink.

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Permalink Reply by olamoree on February 11, 2011 at 3:58am

Another TIP... www.preton.com offers PretonHome (free for personal use) that pops up whenever you call for a print and allows you to set the QUALITY of the print job to save ink. For the cartridge manufacturers, it wasn't enough to kill the cartridge at 200 prints, now they have incorporated DATE expirations! What next?

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Permalink Reply by George Burgess on February 11, 2011 at 4:11am

Thanks, I will try this next time I am low on ink.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Singleton on February 11, 2011 at 10:00am

Interesting I'll poke my next empty cartridge and see what happens I always think there is more ink left than what they say, my yellow one has run out but I normally only do black ink printing, so I don't know why it needs ink in the yellow one, there must be a reason but it seems a bit daft to me.

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Permalink Reply by SassySweetBren on May 6, 2011 at 3:01pm

Cool tip. Ink is so expensive there is no point in throwing away one if more ink is in it.

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Permalink Reply by Mad Max on May 10, 2011 at 5:02pm

I can't remember the last time I printed anything out on a deskjet lol. We have a big ass colour photocopier at the office that lasts like 6 months quite comfortably, even then it tends to run out of black and magenta more than anything else lol. I'll remember this trick next time I run into an "empty" desktjet printer cartridge, could save a few quid.

Also it's rather interesting how it prints as though it's empty when it's detected as being so, yet prints fine when it's reset. Makes one wonder if that's out of design or coincidence!

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Horstmann on May 17, 2011 at 12:27pm

Is this real? If there was still half an ink cartridge left, why would it print like there was none left?

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Permalink Reply by Ian Singleton on May 17, 2011 at 1:15pm

I couldn't find any hole on my particular cartridge but it might be on other makes, they do still have a lot of ink left in them when you chuck them away.