Logical reset of ink level

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I usually fill the cartridge of my HP F380 with compatible ink getting
acceptable results, but I'm faced with the problem of making the printer
driver to learn that the ink level is full. The ink provider gives a hw
procedure I find very difficult, namely you have to cover with scotchtape
two of the header contacts and then to remove the cartridge and put it again
in a mandatory sequence, so it is easy to make some mistake.
Now I wonder whether there is some sw utility to do it. Till now I get
warnings such as "ink is going to be lacking" but maybe will it just stop
printing at all?
il barbi
 
il barbi said:
I usually fill the cartridge of my HP F380 with compatible ink getting
acceptable results, but I'm faced with the problem of making the printer
driver to learn that the ink level is full. The ink provider gives a hw
procedure I find very difficult, namely you have to cover with scotchtape
two of the header contacts and then to remove the cartridge and put it
again in a mandatory sequence, so it is easy to make some mistake.
Now I wonder whether there is some sw utility to do it.
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I have never heard of one. You can rotate two old cartrdiges through the
printer, the third will appear "full".
Till now I get warnings such as "ink is going to be lacking"
but maybe will it just stop printing at all?
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It will not stop printing because it thinks the cartridge is empty (or past
an expiration date). It will eventually stop printing as the cartridge
fails electrically.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging
 
I have never heard of one. You can rotate two old cartrdiges through
the printer, the third will appear "full".
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Its been around.
It fools the printer somehow into thinking you put different cartridges
into it.
 
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