Printer Potty Wic Reset

[Beverly Friddle]

Myprinter is only 16 months old and the ink pad full problem came about. Epson thinks you should throw your printer away when ink pads are full.

Ridiculous! Buy a Solo Waste Kit instead. Easy to fit up and printing again in no time.

What fantastic advice, the printer potty and printer reset was wonderful, my printer now works like new. Keep up the good work and excellent support. Thank you. You have saved me a lot of time and money. Tony

You have two options to keep using this printer. One would be to take it to an Epson service centre, have them replace the pads and reset the waste ink counter. That is almost never economic for a desktop printer, and especially for the 1430. A new one would be much cheaper, or at the very least, least close to the same price.

Using my Mac 10.7.5, does anyone know of a download that will reset the waste ink counter on my Epson Artisan 730 printer. I have changed the waste ink pads, but my 730 printer has locked me out until I change the waste ink counter back to 0. The printer screen message is:" A printer's ink pad is at the end of its life.Please contact Epson Support. Turn Off." Epson support says go to an Epson Service Center and have the machine serviced. The Service Center charges over $100 to do a reset. I found a reset program online but it was only used on PCs not Macs. Any help would be greatly appreciated, to get my printer back in service.

That out of the way, to answer your question there are Windows only utilities that will work to reset the printers waste ink counter and just need to be used to complete the reset. Once reset the printer can then be returned to the MacOS machine and not need the windows machine again (well, not until the waste counter hit maximum again).

Alternatively there's a MacOS compatible pay-per-reset option in the form of a utility called iWIC. This requires the purchase of a one-time digital key to complete the reset itself but the utility can be used without a key to read the waste counters and get some other information from the printer.

One critical thing to note though is that resetting and then ignoring the waste ink is a bit of a daft thing to do so if you do decide to reset, then consider replacing the waste pads or fitting something like a Printer Potty to you don't later discover you need a new carpet, etc...

My Epson printer that I spent $600 on was 2.5 years old. Yes, it was outside of warranty. But it was working fine, and it was hard to justify replacing it with something that was working. If it was outside of warranty could I try to fix it myself? No.

I have just encountered the E-11 message, and after reading comments from other Epson users, I think this is a bit scandalous, that they would make a product, that would be made to break down after a specific time. Many people can not afford to keep buying printers, and this is share capitalism and exploitation from a Company, and at these difficult times, spending money on a fault that can not be cheaper to replace new, people will change to other makes.

Same here. Very annoying as the printer was fully functioning just 24 hours before. Been online, read various suggestions, shut diwn this, shut down that reboot Windows 10, uninstall drivers, reinstall drivers, uninsrall printer, reinstall printer all to no avail. So it now looks like a new printer. Always had Epsom but with the policy of built-in obsolescence. Will probably look elsewhere.

Same thing here. What an annoying feature. Seems like this was built in to make you replace the printer. Just this morning it printed fine and now nothing. This makes me want to go away from Epson moving forward.

Translated: I too am blocked by this E-11 message. We should do a class action. I cleaned my stamp from my Epson XP-320 printer and nothing changes. I also have several new unused cartridges.

As with everyone else on here I have had the same error on my ET-2650 but as I am using a Chromebook I am struggling to find a reset option that is compatible. Can anyone point me in the right direction here?

Its a complete rip off, you buy the printer and the ink then they sting you every year to buy a code to reset the counter, bad form Epson it is the last printer I ever buy from you, most other manufacturers offer free reset tools so you can service the printer yourself.

I own the printer so I should be able to fix it myself not pay a stealth payment to Epson or some other nerd everytime the ink pads are full, they fill rather rapidly too more so than my other printer (canon ).

Something should be done to stop this rip off.

WIC Reset Utility is used to Reset the Waste Ink Counters in the Epson inkjet printers and Canon printer (How to know). You can download WIC Reset Utility Tool for free here:

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Once fit to a machine our kit ensures all waste ink produced by the printer is filtered to an exterior tank, thus removing the risk of your waste pads overflowing. It is an essential step in getting your printer up and running again.

The printer keeps an electronic record of all the waste ink that is produced, and once your pads hit full capacity a fail-safe kicks in.

This fail-safe prevents you from being able to use the printer until it receives a service.

Finally, a reset key will need to be purchased to reset the printer in question.

These can be purchased here, and are single use, meaning any time you reset a printer a reset key purchase is required.

Anyone can fit a waste ink to their printer.

They just need the inclination to do so, and a little common sense never hurt either.

Our guides are custom made for every printer we offer a waste ink kit for.

They are easily followed and the average user should have their printer up and running again within an hour.

I am thinking about buying an ET-2400 (brief Black Friday discount = $179) and I have done my research but the one thing that seems to have almost no information is the waste ink pad situation. From Epson's ET-2400 user guide (see pages 159-160) it tells me that there are 2 different inkpads (one for borderless printing, the other for normal printing). But it also says that these pads are NOT user serviceable components (so there is no Maintenance Box to buy) and that it requires they be replaced by an "authorized Epson service provider".

Epson cost is simple: as much as a new printer, or you're SOL. Usually SOL; Epson often denies HW service when you ask them to fix it due to the parts being EOL, or "too expensive". They would rather give you a one-shot reset to get more out of the pad but once that's done you can't reset it again. However, since the ET-2400 is derived from the "chipped" box printers which were designed to be replaced, it's accessed on the same service panel as the serviced ones and only needs a Phillips driver. However, you need to reset the counter which isn't always possible, or it takes years to open up the reset to 3rd party tools like WIC reset utility (some may never be resettable outside of Epson). Epson used to have somewhat regular tool leaks where if you can find the appropriate adjustment program+keygen, it was possible; like Canon, I suspect Epson has moved this to the cloud logins to prevent leaks and encrypts these tools so we can't hack/decrypt them.

I use laser printers for a reason, despite color and B/W models that aren't junk being $400+, or if I get a deal on a used high-end model like a split drum/developer Lexmark CS with a low page count for a reason: This isn't a problem. However, they're more expensive to maintain than a $250 ink tank like this Epson and need more consumables (drums, toner, developer. Some even consider the transfer belt/fuser "maintenance items" at 100-150k pages). Yes, these may require a truck or 2 people who can lift a heavy printer with how big they can be in some cases (others need a box truck like the copiers with print support or printers the same size as copiers). The best ones in this "lots of consumables, cheap to run" are the Lexmark CS/CX series where they split the drum, toner, and developer (they mention the fuser and transfer belt in the supplies page, but I think the split CS series is the "quality is unsatisfactory" outlier) or even the WorkCentres from Xerox. However, all of the major manufacturers sell these but you need to seek them out.

Here's how big some of the "compact" ones are. They're workhorses, but fail the "consumer convenience" test since they're not like an Epson EcoTank where you take it home and setup the unit, you need a table that can handle it or a printer cart:

WOW! So basically if I read this right tens of (hundreds of ??) thousands of people who get one of these "bargain" ET-2400's for Christmas this year are each going to wake up one day in 2023 and find their printer simply stops working unless they pay Epson a *ransom* to reset it, and then when it happens again a few weeks/months later they will be told: "Sorry, you have to buy (or pay another ransom equal to the cost of) a new printer." ??? Talk about your *planned obsolescence*! The typical Walmart shopper is not going to just have an extra $150-$250 conveniently lying around to pay these costs. Boy and I thought the old (not really) empty ink cartridge thing was a dirty trick. Not cool Epson.

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