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How To / Replacing Ink Cartridges

Checking the Ink Supply

For Windows users
For Macintosh users

For Windows users

You can check the amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridges by using either the Status Monitor 3 or the Progress Meter. Refer to the appropriate section below for details.

Status Monitor 3

Access EPSON Status Monitor 3 in one of the following ways.

Double-click the printer-shaped shortcut icon on your Windows taskbar. To add a shortcut icon to the taskbar, see Monitoring Preferences.

Open the printer driver, click the Utility tab, then click the EPSON Status Monitor 3 button.

A graphic display showing the amount of ink remaining appears.

Note:

For the color ink cartridge, the color with the least amount of ink remaining determines the level that is displayed for all the colors in the cartridge.

Progress Meter

The EPSON Progress Meter dialog box appears automatically when you send a print job to the printer. You can check the amount of ink remaining from this dialog box.

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For Macintosh users

You can check the amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridges using the StatusMonitor. Follow the steps below.

Click Print or Page Setup on the File menu of your application. The Print dialog box appears.

Click the StatusMonitor icon button, or click the Utility icon button and then the EPSON StatusMonitor button in the Utility dialog box.

A graphic displaying the amount of ink remaining appears.

To update the ink-level information, click the Update button.

Note:

For the color ink cartridge, the color with the least amount of ink remaining determines the level that is displayed for all of the colors in the cartridge.

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