How to repaire Epson Artisan 720 printer red light flashing and appear the error “The printer’s ink Pads are at the end of their service life. Please contact the Epson Support” by reset your Epson Artisan 720 printer’s Waste ink counter with WIC Reset Tool (or Epson Artisan 720 RESSETTER) program.
The Waste Ink Counter Overflow is a common error in the Epson Artisan 720 printer as well as almost of Epson printer.
Most of them has this problem and let’s watch out some following signals. When your printer stops working and appear the message on the screen “The Printer’s Ink Pads are at the end of their service life. Please contact Epson Support” and the red light is continuously blinking.
Now you can conclude that your Epson Artisan 720 printer is having the Waste Ink Counter Overflow however you can fix this error according to our instruction.
Find the reason and the methods to repair the Waste Ink Counter on Epson Artisan 720 printer.
Before you look for the reason of the Waste Ink counter on Epson Artisan 720 printer, you should be sure that your Epson printer has this error or other same errors. You completely realize this error based on these signals below.
The signals of Epson Artisan 720 printer when it has Waste Ink Counter Overflow error
These are 3 steps to sure that your Epson Artisan 720 printer is overflowed or not:
– When Waste ink counter is overflowed, two red lights of the printer will blink continuously.
– Check the notifications of the computer if you see “The Printer’s Ink Pad is at the end of its service life. Please contact Epson Support” or “The Printer’s Ink Pads are at the end of their service life. Please contact Epson Support” that means your waste ink counter is overflowed, you should be reset it back to 0% to continue using.
– Let’s download Epson Artisan 720 Resetter and also WIC RESET TOOL then connect with the computer by USB cable, connect computer to the internet, then choose the Epson Artisan 720 printer on the Wicreset’s left sidebar then click “Read Waste Counters” to check the number of Waste Ink Counter. In case one of them is more than 100% that means your Waste Ink Counter is overflowed.
What is Epson Artisan 720 Waste ink counter? What is Epson Artisan 720 Waste ink pad?
Waste Ink Pads are actually a number of porous pads in the Epson Artisan 720 printer that collect, distribute, and very importantly contain the ink that is not used on printed pages (Waste Ink).
Waste Ink is collected by these pads during the initial setup of the product, during cleaning cycles and when printing borderless photographs.
So one time it can be overflowed because it could not absorb ink anymore then the ink will leak from the bottom of the Epson Artisan 720 printer.
The printer counts how much ink flow to waste ink pad and stores this number into printer’s memory.
This number is called Protection Counter or Waste Ink Counter.
What is Epson Artisan 720 Waste ink counter overflow?
To avoid ink leaking outside the Epson Artisan 720 printer from Waste ink Pad, the waste ink counter may be overflowed and printer will stop.
Full waste ink counter is 100%. Overflow means that counters values are more than 100%. If one or two counters are overflow – you can’t print – you need to RESET WASTE INK COUNTERS
After a long period of usage and also you had used it for a large quantity of printing document, the printer will leave a lot of waste ink into Waste ink pad. If you don’t care about this problem, the waste ink tray will be full then the waste ink can be overflowed.
This affects other components and can make the Epson Artisan 720 printer be broken down. We can predict that case so Epson installed to make the Waste Ink Counter overflow soon to stop the printing procedure, this ensures that there is no waste ink which flows into the waste ink pad and prevent the waste ink from overflowing.
When one of the waste ink counters is overflowed, the printer will stop instantly. You should be clean the waste ink tray and also replace then reset Waste ink counter back to 0% to continue printing.
How to avoid the waste ink pad overflowing.
After you reset the waste ink counter back to 0% many times and the printers will go on working and let the waste ink flow into tray so the waste ink tray will be full soon and then overflow. This problem affect directly to printer so you need an useful solution to avoid the waste ink pad overflowing.
The first way: After resetting the waste ink counter, you should disassemble the waste ink pad and use the device to take all the waste ink the clean the waste ink pad to contain the waste ink.
But when you use this way, you need to open the printer regularly so it is inconvenient so you should see the next method to prevent this problems.
The second way: you can use a bottle and a segment conductor is suitable with the Epson Artisan 720 printer’s conductor then let the waste ink flow into the conductor that is connected with the bottle
When the waste ink bottle is full, you only have to the segment conductor and clean it to reuse.
Note: Let’s set the bottle under the printer to make the flowing process fluently. If you put the bottle higher than the bottom of the Epson Artisan 720 printer, the waste ink will not flow out
How to reset Epson Artisan 720 printer Waste ink counter
Step 1: Download Epson Artisan 720 resetter and install
You are able to download by select one of these links:
– Download Epson Artisan 720 resetter for Windows (.zip): Download here
– Download Epson Artisan 720 resetter for Windows (.rar): Download here
– Download WIC Reset Utility for Windows (Mirror): Download here
or go to download page here: Download Epson Artisan 720 Resetter
How to setting up Epson Artisan 720 resetter:
Step 1.1: Run Wicreset.exe file, click “Yes“, click “I accept the agreement“.
After that click “Next” to go to the next step
Step 1.2: Now, select distination location to install Epson Artisan 720 resetter. If you would like to select a different folder, click Browse then select a folder. If you want to install Epson Artisan 720 resetter in default location, click Next to continue
After that, click Next when “Select Start Menu Folder” window appears, if you don’t want to create a start menu folder click on “Don’t create a Start Menu folder“.
Step 1.3: Click to check “Create a desktop shortcut” then click Next to continue install Epson Artisan 720 resetter
Step 1.4: Click Install to continue with the Epson Artisan 720 Resetter installation
Please wait. Setup has completed installing Epson Artisan 720 resetter on your computer when you see the Window: “Completing the WicReset Setup Wizard“
And this is WIC Reset Tool (Epson Artisan 720 resetter)
Step 2: Buy the WIC Reset Key
You can buy the Epson Artisan 720 Resetter Key with Paypal, VISA, Master Card or Webmoney. ONE RESET KEY = $8.99 (This is One Time Reset Key)
Step 2.1: Click here to go to Buy Page, and also visit: https://resetkey.net/buy
Step 2.2: Enter the number of keys you want to buy in to Quantity box.
Step 2.3: Click on ADD TO CART button, then click Checkout with Paypal to pay the reset key and get the reset key from your email (You will receive the reset key in less than 10 seconds).
if you pay the reset key with Webmoney, please send money to WMZ Wallet: Z230787931543 then contact us (manilacare@gmail.com) to get the reset key
Step 3: Step to steps to reset your Epson Artisan 720 printer’s Waste Ink Counters
Please watch this video to know step to steps to reset your Epson Artisan 720 printer’s Waste ink counters by using Epson Artisan 720 resetter (WIC Reset Tool.)
If you have any problem with Epson Artisan 720 resetter, please don’t hesitate to contact us.