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Colour Laser Toner is expensive. Printer manufacturer'soffice supplies and stationery companies are delving deep into our pockets to relieve us of our hard earned cash by employing what in some quarters could be construed as unscrupulous methods. Any one following my articles will know why this is. Put simply, GREED.
I'm speaking of chips, chips that are disabling printer cartridges.
Is there a way to restart those pesky printer chips, well, the answer is yes and no. No, as in once the chip stops the printer that's it as far as the cartridge is concerned and you will not be allowed to print one more page until you replace the cartridge, but yes in that many printers can be tricked to override the cartridge by following a few simple instructions and pressing some printer buttons.
Let's begin by selecting a popular HP colour laser printer the HP Colour Laserjet CP1515n, the following instructions will be true of every printer in this field for example it's bigger brother the CP3523. Try it on any HP printer with a screen.
HP introduced a new design of printer whereby the cartridges are installed horizontally instead of vertically as with older designs the once very popular HP 2600 printer being a case in point. The CP1515N printer prints slow only 12 pages per minute, ample for the home user or SOHO but not rated as a business machine. The printer is priced to sell, on the face of it, its cheap. Not often factored in though by the buyer is the price of the consumables. The printer takes four cartridges black, cyan, magenta and yellow. Far from being an economical entry level printer this machine is a costly piece of equipment to run. Cartridges are on average as much as £65.00 for OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and £51.00 for compatibles. To fill the printer with consumables can set you back anywhere between £210.00 and £260.00. Ouch!!
Lets alleviate the problem a little.
Follow these simple instructions to resuscitate a seemingly dead cartridge. The printer has a small screen on the front top right of the printer. The word Ready will be displayed unless the printer needs a cartridge then you will have a replace cartridge message. Below the screen are 3 separate buttons
1. An OK button flanked on the left and right side by triangle symbols.
2. A button with an ominous X on it. (cancel button)
3. An arrow in the shape of the letter U lying on its side for want of a better discription (Returns you to previous menu).
Before you take fright at the task that lies before you console yourself with the thoughts that,
There is absolutely no way the following instructions will damage your printer (guaranteed) even if you continually mess up.
You'll be quid's in.
Let's begin.
Press the OK button once, Main Menu Reports will appear.
Hit the triangle to the right of the OK button once, Main Menu System Setup will appear.
Hit OK.Hit the triangle to the right of OK twice System Setup Print Quality will appear.
Hit OK. In System Setup Print Quality hit the triangle to the right of the OK button twice until Replace Supplies appears.
Hit OK. Replace Supplies Override Out will immediately appear.
Hit OK and you're done, simple.
You're cartridges will now print hundreds of extra pages even more than that! The first sign you will notice when your cartridge is truly empty will be fading print quality the printer ink will have finally run out.
I've singled out HP they're not the only company at this extortion racket most printer manufacturers are, why not, it's a great scam. In future articles I will explain other methods in overcoming printer manufacturer's tricks.
