Resetting Your Hewlett Packard Printer's Estimated Ink Level

 

 

Understanding Your Printer's Estimated Ink Level:

     The newer Hewlett Packard printers have included in the software that comes with their printers, a "toolbox" that includes a section called Estimated Ink Level.  Its a great tool that allows you to keep track of how much ink is left in your cartridges so you don't start a big print job and get stranded out of ink in the middle of it.  The only problem is that has become quite troublesome on those who wish to refill their cartridges.  If you refill your cartridge or have someone else refill your cartridge, it will read as low or empty when you try to print with the cartridge.  How does HP do it?  They started embedding a serial number in the contact strip located on the back of the cartridge.  The printer remembers that serial number and gives the message of low or out of ink.  The internal memory is located in the printers firmware and is not in the software.  It will remember the previous two cartridges ink level.  We have posted various ways to reset the ink levels so your Estimated Ink Level will read full again.  Click on your printer cartridge number below to find out how.

Resetting the Hewlett Packard 51645a (#45) or C6115 (#15) Black Ink Cartridge Estimated Ink Level

There are a few different ways to get the estimated ink level to read full on your HP toolbox.  To better understand the procedure you are about to follow, it helps to know what causes your cartridge to read empty.  There is a serial number embedded in the electrical that allows the printer to keep track of each cartridge's activity.  The printer will remember the previous two cartridges that have been inserted.  After a third cartridge has been inserted, the memory of the first cartridge is dumped and lost forever.  After that, if the first cartridge is reinserted into the printer, it will read full again even though it may actually be empty.  Listed below are three procedures to reset the estimated ink level on a #45 or #15.  One of the three will work, so if the first one doesn't, proceed to the second reset method and so on.