. Original Epson 7-PIN & 9-PIN cartridges have special IC chips inside them that indicate their ink levels. Therefore, refilled cartridges will never show the correct ink level. However, our chip resetter can reset this chip allowing you to see your cartridges' ink levels. Simply align the pins and press down for several seconds to complete the reset.
Dec 06, 2012 I haven't refilled them. They are genuine Epson cartridges. I know they have a chip but it is always 'inaccurate' to say the least. I've seen reset software for PC's but not for the Mac. Insert the end of the paper clip into the hole and press down. Remove the paper clip. Insert the printer cartridge back into the print head and continue printing as normal.
Now you can finally refill the Epson 7-PIN & 9-PIN cartridges successfully, and reset the chips on the cartridges so the printer won't know the difference!. The resetter is guaranteed to work on original brand Epson 7-PIN & 9-PIN cartridge chips and on 'compatible chips' manufactured by 3rd parties.
Epson Chip Resetter
February 22, 2017 The Waste Ink Counter (WIC) Reset Utility helps reset printers’ waste ink counters. Is said to have been “developed for making service procedures with inkjet Epson and Canon printers” easier, such as “printhead power cleaning, fatal error codes reading, waste ink counters read and reset and print quality pattern printing”. The “most popular function” of the software is being able to “read waste ink counters”, as OEMs “put these inside the printers” and they “may overflow and the printer will stop printing”. In turn, if you have many print jobs “it would be very useful to know” the values of these, as “if they are near to 100 percent” then “the printer may stop” and the job will “remain undone”, and the utility is free and is said to make it “easy to check” values. If the counters are “not overflowed” then “you can continue printing”, but if they have “you have to fix this situation”, which “technically” requires an “Epson service engineer to resolve”. However it is “possible that you could fix it yourself by resetting the printer and clearing the counter of how much ink has gone” through, and save between $50 to $60 (€47 to €57). In a video, the company notes that “you have to buy a reset key” for the reset, which is “for one reset only”, and it urges users to “check if WIC supports my printer model” before buying, and “pay attention to what functions are available for your printer model”.
Some models have options to read the counters available, but a “reset function is not available”, as “some printer models have a separate maintenance ink cartridges, which has its own IC chip”, which can be “reset by a hardware chip resetter only”, and not “by any software so, please pay attention to this fact and first check your printer’s model support”. After resetting the counter the key “will become used”, but you are able to check its status. The company features a host of tutorial videos on its website, and the WIC Reset Utility can be downloaded for Windows XP and 7 as well as Mac OS 10.5 and higher, with the FreeWare software supporting English, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.