Here is the best way to reset the waste ink counter on Epson Stylus NX515 printer by yourself, you don’t should be bring it to the stores and it also fix the printer’s issue like not printing and the red light blinking error “The printer’s ink pads are at the end of their service life. Please contact Epson support”.
The Waste Ink Counter Overflow is a common problem in the Epson Stylus NX515 printer as well as almost of Epson printer.
Most of them has this error 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 Stylus NX515 printer is having the Waste Ink Counter Overflow however you can solve this issue according to our instruction.
Understand the Waste Ink Counter and how to repair this
The users who use the Epson Stylus NX515 printer nearly got on with this problem. Some of them waste a lot of money for fixing this error. However, you can fix it on your own in case it has this problem after you check your printer carefully.
How to know that the Waste Ink Counter printer is overflowed
We have three popular ways to know that your Epson Stylus NX515 printer has Waste Ink Counter overflowed:
– First of all, when your Epson Stylus NX515 printer is printing and suddenly stops working as well as the red light is blinking continuously.
– Secondly, computer show an error message: “The Printer’s Ink Pads are at the end of Their service life. Please contact Epson Support” or “The Printer’s Ink Pad is at the end of its service life. Please contact Epson Support”.
– Thirdly, when you use the Epson Stylus NX515 Resetter and also WIC Reset Tool to read the numbers the Waste Ink counters and you can see the number is bigger that 100%
What is Epson Stylus NX515 Waste ink counter? What is Epson Stylus NX515 Waste ink pad?
Epson inkjet printers have inside a part of sponge for absorbing and collecting waste inks. It is called waste ink pad.
Ink is collected by waste ink pads during the initial setup of the product, during cleaning cycles and when printing borderless photographs. While printhead cleaning process ink flush through printhead to waste ink pad.
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 Stylus NX515 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 and also Waste Ink Counter.
What is Epson Stylus NX515 Waste ink counter overflow?
To avoid ink leaking outside the Epson Stylus NX515 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 should be RESET WASTE INK COUNTERS
After a long period of usage or 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 Stylus NX515 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 avoid 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 prevent the waste ink pad overflowing.
If you use the Epson Stylus NX515 printer regularly, this problem will usually happen in your Epson printer so you should use some skills in resetting process to avoid overflowing waste ink.
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 have 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 Stylus NX515 printer’s conductor then let the waste ink flow into the conductor that is connected with the bottle
When the bottle is almost 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 Stylus NX515 printer, the waste ink will not flow out
Reset Epson Stylus NX515 printer Waste ink counter instruction
Step 1: Download Epson Stylus NX515 resetter and install
You are able to download by click on one of the links:
– Download Epson Stylus NX515 resetter for Windows (.zip): Download here
– Download WIC Reset Utility for Windows (.rar): Download here
– Download Epson Stylus NX515 resetter for Windows (Mirror): Download here
or go to download page here: Download Epson Stylus NX515 Resetter
How to setting up WIC Reset Utility:
Step 1.1: Run Wicreset.exe file, click “Yes“, click “I accept the agreement“.
Then click “Next” to continue
Step 1.2: Now, select distination location to setup Epson Stylus NX515 resetter. If you would like to select a different folder, click Browse then select a folder. If you want to install Epson Stylus NX515 resetter in default location, click Next to continue
Then, 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 setup Epson Stylus NX515 resetter
Step 1.4: Click Install to continue with the Epson Stylus NX515 Resetter installation
Please wait. Setup has finished installing Epson Stylus NX515 resetter on your computer when you see the Window: “Completing the WicReset Setup Wizard“
And this is WIC Reset Tool (Epson Stylus NX515 resetter)
Step 2: Buy the WIC Reset Key
You can buy the Epson Stylus NX515 Resetter Key with Paypal, VISA, Master Card and also Webmoney. ONE RESET KEY = $8.99 (One time reset only)
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: Instructions to reset your Epson Stylus NX515 printer’s Waste Ink Counters
Please watch this video to know step to steps to reset your Epson Stylus NX515 printer’s Waste ink counters by using Epson Stylus NX515 resetter (WIC Reset Tool.)
If you have any problem with Epson Stylus NX515 resetter, please don’t hesitate to contact us.