Is it Time for a New Ink Cartridge in Your Epson Printer?

It is hard to find a better quality printer than an Epson.  You are almost guaranteed good prints with Epson products.  Knowing when to change your ink cartridge will help you maintain that good quality.

Epson makes it easy to know when it is time to replace your cartridge.  They put a light on the printer that flashes when the ink is running low, which means that you need to buy a new ink cartridge.

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.

The only thing is that at times these warnings do not come at exactly the right time.  Sometimes the warning is premature and sometimes it comes late.

Sometimes you get the warning in the middle of a big print job and it is to late to interrupt printing.  If you get the warning when the cartridge is about 75% empty you will most likely not have enough to finish a big print job.

If the warning occurs and you change your cartridge right away you could be wasting ink.  Usually when the indicator light flashes or the computer gives you the warning that you are running low on ink your cartridge is still ? full. 

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 with a new ink cartridge. This lets you get the maximum use from the cartridges, without wasting any ink.

However, if you are going to do a big print job or you need to print photos it may be better to start with a new cartridge.  Yes you may still have some ink left in your old cartridge.  But it may be better to go ahead and loose that little bit of ink than to mess up your print job.