Inspired by something I read this morning, here’s my own anecdotal experience.<\/p>\n
Epson inkjet printers: when it says “Ink Low!” (implying “your dog will DIE if you don’t replace the offending cartridge RIGHT NOW!”<\/p>\n
…ignore it.<\/p>\n
Modern Epsons (at least – I have no experience with other inkjets) will print merrily along for many more pages before they will finally say “OK: enough is enough – I simply refuse to print any more!” at which point, you replace the cartridge.<\/p>\n
Again, YMMV, but with mine, even if it’s half way thru printing an image, it will pause, and present you with the cartridge tray, and let you replace the empty cart with a new one…and then happily resume printing right from where it left off. You’ll never see the difference.<\/p>\n
However: the key to this is to NOT go into “replace-the-cartridge-mode” (meaning don’t hit cancel; don’t hit pause; don’t do a thing except replace the cartridge. If you do otherwise, you’ll lose what’s been printed so far, and will have to start over.)<\/p>\n
And, as to laser printers, at least with my HP color one: it will start whining early on about how low the toners are. There’s two things to that:<\/p>\n
1) there’s a menu selection (buried, of course) that you can use to tell it to quit complaining and just keep printing; and<\/p>\n
2) once it starts complaining, (or you see the “low supplies” in the print dialog box) you probably have a ways to go.<\/p>\n
I’m at that point now, and I printed out a report on the “remaining consumables” – and it turns out it, each of those “dangerously low” cartridges were fully capable of printing…<\/p>\n
…wait for it..<\/p>\n
345 -more- pages!<\/p>\n
FWIW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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