Printers and cartridges are basically like the market of razor and blades isn't it? Try to buy a razor from any grocery store, some brands may provide spare blades for replacement when the attached blade turned blunt. Whether there's a spare provided or nothing, what you should notice is the price of a razor and its blades. Observe their prices, were the blades less expensive compare to the razor, or is it the other way around? Sounds familiar right, printers likewise are not too pricy just like a razor, however its consumables such as laser toner cartridges and ink cartridges are exorbitantly priced.
If you're not using a razor much often then once you need it, it turns out that the blade's too blunt to use, and you have to replace it with a new one, isn't that disappointing? To replace something you doesn't even get to use enough or end up with a useless product that you think was not worthy for what you spent. Additionally, there were complains from many printer users reporting that their machine stops working the least they expected, due to empty cartridges.
Fortunately, on our today's level of technology, with just the right keyword or exact phrase, a good web searching skills, plus patience (you need a lot though), Google can help you with your problems. I came upon several how-to's and solution providing sites like FixYourOwnPrinter, and found a lot of surprising information that may help every users that are being troubled by their printer's consumables.
We're all familiar with Brother printers, and we're pretty much aware of the cartridge-chips installed in every brother toner cartridges and ink cartridges we purchased. Through this small piece of sensor chip, printers can identify and somehow figure out when they'll be out of ink/toner supply. Although it's not accurate, cause honestly you can try shaking the "empty cartridge" and you might just hear some left-over drops inside of it. To think that there's more enough inside the tank that eventually can produce more printouts, it's very frustrating that the printer will no longer accept it. But wait, here's a trick I found while strolling inside the great archive of the site I've mentioned earlier.
I actually called it the "tape trick", cause all you need is a black electrical tape that will be used to cover the sensor of the cartridges. It works like wonder, that after re-installing the cartridge with the tape, the printer began to work. Try it for yourself, if it works please let me know with your comments below.
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