Why we know cartridge is empty - HiTi P110S PocketStudio Photo Printer Starter Kit

Hi
the easiest way is to send a print job to printer. If any cartridge is empty, the printer should refuse to print and display an error message. This should indicate which cartridge is empty/not recognised - with a red X above the empty colour. Another way is to go to 'printer properties' then 'maintenance' page and click on 'Status monitor' button.
Hope this helps & good luck with it.

Some printers offer the option of printing in Black only in Preferences so you could try that. Another choice is to remove and reinstall the cartridge as sometimes it will reset. If your black cartridge is empty, the color cartridge can print black for awhile but it is probably more expensive per page to do it that way. If the color cartridge is empty, then it would be probably cheaper to print from only it.

You could also inject so ink with a needle into the empty cartridge then set your printer to not use that cartridge but this can make a mess unless you know how to refill cartridges at home.

Mostly cartridges have a sensor in it. Once cartridge gets empty, the sensor show error. Then even if you refill the cartridge the symptom remains there showing empty cartridge. Try using new cartridges, not refilled cartridges..

Try using the HP Print Diagnostic Utility in Windows - HP Customer Care (United States - English).

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1) The Brother printer is structured in such a way that it will stop all the printing operations if any one of the ink cartridges are empty.

2) If the printer continues printing inspite of having anyone empty cartridge then the cleaning cycles would suck air from the empty cartridge.

3) This would damage the print head.
However, the black and white print mode can operate exceptionally well when the cartridges are empty.

When you moved the original chip to the new cartridge, the chip is saying the cartridge is empty. Try removing the chip and the printer should know the cartridge is not empty, but might give you a message that it is not a genuine Canon cartridge.

Fred

Are you positive it says the yellow cart is empty? Because that brother printer is designed to say that a cartridge is empty whenever ANY of the color cartridges are empty. Usually it doesn't tell you which one is really empty either. So even if you replaced the yellow cartridge and say, the black cartridge is empty, it still won't let you print until you replace that empty black cartridge, nor will you know which of the cartridges is empty unless you pull them out of the printer and manually check the ink levels.

Its pretty much a guessing game with those old brother ink printers.

Hope this helps :)

No, it won't let you print

If you allowed your cartridge to run completely empty before refilling, the chip on the cartridge "knows" it is empty and will not allow it to be used. You can buy replacement chips for about $6.00 or so or buy third party cartridges for about $15. Your cartridge is not going to work until you get the chip replaced.

You can usually print with an empty cartridge, even though the software will inform you that the cartridge is empty. Your print quality may be affected, however.