Low warning annoying me

I always ordered my ink through Dell, however, its cheaper and more convienent to get it from Cartridge World. However, when i replaced them, the printer never acknowledged my levels as being replenished and still warns of low levels. This is getting on my nerves bc I know i replaced the black and color cartridges.

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Anonymous Dec 23, 2007

I'am also having the same problem. I took off the bar scan on the color and put it on the new one thinking that might help..... no luck. Just think i will buy a printer that is not a dell.
Anonymous Dec 30, 2007

bought new dell cartridges and had some old ones refilled at drug store photo dept. Same error msgs no matter what catridges I buy.
QueenSherry Jan 05, 2008

I changed the ink cartridge. The printer is saying I don't have any ink. It keeps telling me to order more ink. I have cleaned the heads. I have turned the printer off and unpluged it. What else can I do?
Anonymous Feb 17, 2008

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Anonymous Mar 15, 2014

I just changed the cartridge and it prints but gives an annoying warning that the black ink is low.

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Dell's proprietary grip on its printers causes this message to appear with any non-Dell or refilled cartridge. The messages/ink filled levels will only be reset if you buy a new Dell ink cartridge or have a way to update their encoding strip.

The good news is that you can still use refilled cartridges just minimize the level warnings to the task bar and ignore them when they come up. Everything should still print fine.

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Same problem with low ink message. I purchase my cartridges from Dell always.

Posted on Dec 16, 2007

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