Last time used my printer it was reporting the colour toners as being low (about 12% ish). Today it's claiming that they're totally empty and refusing to print black even though that's still at 16%.
Clearly it's a lying piece of shit. I've seen a few bits of software around that claim to reset the counters to 100%,but they all seem to want money. Anyone know of a free utility for this? Or if the paid ones even work?
It's a Samsung clp-360w laser jobbie.
When I used to refill my brother b+w laser toner cartridges with a noxious black powder, before that ruined a drum which the replacement costs more than just buying a whole new printer with a drum (which I did), there was a physical thingy to switch/tape over on the cartridge so the printer would be fooled into thinking it was new. So you may not need software?
The toner cartridges have a chip on them these days, probably just a unique serial number. Either need to change the serial. Number (probably impossible) or change the firmware on the printer to reset the on board counter for that serial number.
It's a bugger they've got to this level. On our printer, fooling the "toner-out" system was a simple case of colouring in the toner window with a black marker pen.
Did that 9 months ago and must have printed over 300 sheets since, toner still going strong. You're quite right, laser printer manufacturers are a bunch of lying, dishonest fucks :(
They caught on to the inkjet cartridge game.
I just ignore the warnings and carry on printing until printing no longer workee
On our cheapie Brother we wait until prints have streaks through them.
Yup. Tried putting electrical tape over the sensors, but it just claims no cartridges installed.
Strangley, I have two print drivers installed: one is the one I added which comes up under the name I gave the printer. The other windows automatically added when it saw the printer on the network, under the printers default class name. If I print to kosPrinter, it refuses to work and claims it's out of toner. If I print to Samsung CLP Class Printer, it works fine.
So it's purely a driver restriction. Total bullshit.
I usually go for the shake the toner until I either cover myself in toner or the prints get bandy method