topic Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low in Professional Photo Printers

Pro 10 ink catridge running low

tokth — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:06:49 GMT

My ink catridge display show that "the following ink tank is running low,...Prepare a new ink tank"

I need to replace now or wait another warning Thank you

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:11:02 GMT

There will be a second warning. It says to prepare a new tank so you can be ready to replace at the next warning. I take off the film wrap but don’t twist the orange cover off until I am ready to actually install the cartridge.

The printer goes through a purge cycle each time a cartridge is replaced, so if you have several cartridges running low you might want to consider replacing all of them at the same time when one of them triggers the ink is out warning.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

tokth — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:14:32 GMT

Thank you for your information

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

nvw — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:52:34 GMT

Do you have a reference point to determine what "low" is? For example, if I received a second warning for replacing a one of my cartidges, would you also replace the 72CO cartridge based on the level shown in the attachment?

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:28:32 GMT

Which one is giving the warnin g? it looks like only the CO is low enough to be replaced if i was doing it.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

nvw — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 17:51:01 GMT

I'm not getting an low warning yet on any inks in that example. I was just wondering if one of my inks was giving me a warning, would you also replace the CO at this point as well? I am really just trying to get a sense what "low" is and when to replace an ink even though it might have some life left in it.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:58:20 GMT

If I received a low warning I would replace all inks that show as low as CO to minimize purge cycles.

I don't have a Pro-10; maybe CO doesn't give the same warning as ink, but if ink was showing that low I would expect to be getting a low ink warning.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

nvw — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 20:52:20 GMT

Thanks. The Pro-10 does give a warning, sometimes. I had not received a warning on the CO cartridge when I took the screen shot but the next time I turned on the printer the cartridge showed as empty and could not print till I replaced it.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

tokth — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 14:57:30 GMT

Today I conneted the printer to computer,the message warm me to replace one of the catridge,After replace the catridge,and printing in progress,another catridge also outof ink cause the color of paper not match,so better to replace the catridge when the ink tank is low

My 1st catridge detect low is GY,but I still can print another two pcs of A4 photo

My 2nd catridge detect low is CO and PC,but when I print the next A4 photo in progress,the CO alert out of ink

Currently all the ink catridge detect low ink except MBK,so need to replace all the ink catridge

So we won't know when the ink catridge out of ink after alert ink tank is running low

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

johnnypb — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:14:14 GMT

Where/how did you get that ink level utility?

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:23:48 GMT

tokth - You discovered the "Domino Effect". Whenever a cartridge is replaced the printer runs a purge cycle that operates on all cartridges. More than once, before I adopted my new strategy, the purge wound up emptying a cartridge. Replace-Repeat

Now, I wait until the Replace Warning (red x) appears for a cartridge and when the ink staus opens I rplace any cartrdge that has an "X" or an "!". Only one purge cycle and in the long run less wasted ink.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:30:37 GMT

In Windows select View Printer Status button:

macOS select your printer and select Options & Supplies

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

johnnypb — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:43:00 GMT

I got that, there was a different view of the ink status.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

jrhoffman75 — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:35:11 GMT

Windows vs macOS.

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

johnnypb — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:55:31 GMT

Guess it could be Mac. didn't think about it.

I use Windows.

The screenshot was from NVW on first page of this thread.

Thanks

Re: Pro 10 ink catridge running low

TCampbell — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:11:11 GMT

@johnnypbwrote:
Guess it could be Mac. didn't think about it.
I use Windows.
The screenshot was from NVW on first page of this thread.
Thanks

The screen-shot from nvw is from a mac.

On a mac, you enter the System Preferences, pick "Printers & Scanners", select the printer, pick "Options & Supplies..." then look at the "Supplies" tab (the panel 'nvw' posted is from that method.)

But there's another way which is faster... if you try to print something, you'll get the typical panel that opens to let you set the printer choice and any options you want.. when you pick the printer you want to use, there's a pull-down menu that lets you view the "supplies" levels.