


IJM sell them, as do most suppliers of alternative inks. You may end up being horrified by how much ink is accumulated in the bottle. Periodically you can empty the waste ink tank. The bottle sits next to the printer and a length of tubing connects the printer’s waste ink lines to the bottle, so that the waste ink from each head clean is collected in the bottle. You still need to be a little bit handy to do this, but only a little. What most people do is buy and fit a waste ink bottle. Someone who is handy and has the service manual could replace them themselves, but I don’t recall ever hearing of someone who actually did that. There’s still the question of the full pads. You need to buy a key for each reset, but I think it’s only around $10 for one. This program will allow you to reset the waste ink counter yourself.

The other option is to download a program called the WICReset utility from. A new one would be much cheaper, or at the very least, least close to the same price. That is almost never economic for a desktop printer, and especially for the 1430. One would be to take it to an Epson service centre, have them replace the pads and reset the waste ink counter. You have two options to keep using this printer. My experience is that it doesn’t just do this suddenly - there should have been a warning or two. Once this happens, the printer gives the message that you now see, and stops working. The printer keeps a rough track of how much ink should have gone down the waste tubes into these pads, and there’s an algorithm that determines when the pads are full. There are largish absorbent pads at the base of the printer that hold this ink. Here is the updated list of Epson printers compatible with the WIC Utility program, please contact us when your printer is not on the list, and we will help you find a solution.Each time the printer does a head clean, the ink consumed has to go somewhere. Compatible Epson printers with WIC Utility Reset
