How to Reset Epson Ink Levels after T277, T252, T273, and T200 Cartridge Refills

Today, we will show you how to use a chip resetter to make the Epson ink level back to full. Epson stores the number of pages printed in a computer chip, and the chip is located at the front of the cartridge. If we refill a cartridge, we also need to reset the page number back to zero. Otherwise, the printer will still show low ink and prevent us from printing.

Our resetter can allow us to change the page number. You can find it at www.bchtechnologies.com, and you go to accessories and go to resetters, and there's a resetter for the cartridge. However, there are a few things to consider first. The first one is a resetter that only works for specific models. It's not universal. For example, this EP2 resetter only works for those models. We also list by model number and the printer model to help you choose. Make sure you have the correct model.

The second thing is that the resetter only works for cartridges with at least some ink left in the cartridge. Once the ink is depleted, the printer will send a kill signal to the cartridge, and the cartridge will be dead. This one is a dead cartridge. You can see there's a big red cross on it, and this cartridge cannot be reset to zero. It's as good as dead, and you can throw it in the garbage. This one has a yellow triangle, and that's only a warning. This one should be able to reset.

Let's try to reset that dead cartridge first. Now, you can see you need to replace the cartridge for that cartridge, which means it's dead. Now we take the cartridge out and put them on the resetter. There's a card to help you to line up the pins with the chip. The green one means it's reset, but it doesn't mean it's going to work. It just reset to zero, but that cartridge has a signal that it says dead. Now you close it. Okay, there we go. They tell you you need to replace and that's it.

Now we work on one with low ink, and you can see the yellow triangle here. That looks good. Don't forget, always use the replace cartridge function on the printer to take a cartridge out. Now we put it on the resetter. Now it's reset to zero. We put it back, close the door and wait. Look at our first screen. However, you're using the Epson cartridge after you reset it, and Epson is not happy about it for you to reset it, so they try to scare you. The first thing they show you is, "You have not installed genuine Epson ink cartridges." I guess they're pretty angry about this.

The second screen, "We're detecting you're trying to save money and that the quality of our reliability for a non-genuine ink cannot be guarantee blah, blah, blah. Please send us more money," and okay. Then continue to use this ink? Yes. Check out the yellow bar. That's how much money you saved.

If you have a refillable cartridge, we'd have ERC chips. This resetter doesn't work on it. See the sign here? We try to reset it. This sign is a refillable cartridge. It has ERC chips on it. The resetter doesn't work on ERC chips. The resetter only works on one-time use chips, the original Epson, or one-time use of the third-party chip. We take the sign out and reset it. We put it back. The reason it doesn't work is the ERC chip has a different reset mechanism. It is waiting for the kill signal from the printer to reset its chips. When you do not have a kill signal, it doesn't do anything. Here one is back online. You're going to see the sign is at the same level. See, it's not complete. This video works on a third-party one-time use cartridge, and this is not Epson.

You can see the yellow is not complete. It's about three-fourths full. Now we use the replace cartridge function with taking the cartridge out. Remember, always use this function to take the cartridge out. Put it on. Third-party cartridge somehow is pretty hard to line up, and you have to see where the pin is. That's probably because the contact points are so fat.