You can reset Epson cartridges after they run out and get a whole lot more pages out of them. Of course you need an Epson universal resetter to do that.

Things can happen to throw off this counter and you may get erroneous readings from your ink level indicator, so don't put a whole lot of trust in it. It's just a guide.

It goes both ways too. Sometimes your levels will be good but your ink cartridge runs out of ink. It could be that cartridge was not filled properly at factory but it most likely is caused by faulty ink level data.

The data can get corrupt by things like power loss from lightning storms, a virus, hard drive crashes, Spyware, corrupt printer drivers etc, etc.

So when you think you have a tough job just be glad you don't have to keep track of 12,000,000 drops of ink per second all day long!

My point with this article is to get people to use right printer setting if they want great photo prints. If you try using regular 20 lb bond paper using printers general settings you will be very disappointed with results.

Get some good quality glossy paper and try this test. Make a print on regular paper using general settings. Then make one with your printer set to glossy paper using high quality mode and compare. The first will look like a water colored newspaper picture. The second will look like you just got it back from Kodak!

This is not news to a lot of you but a surprising number of people reading this will suddenly go "hhhmmmmm, that explains some things".