| Home > Replacing Ink Cartridges Checking the Ink Supply Using the printer's control panel buttons For Windows For Mac OS X Using the printer's control panel buttons You can check the amount of ink remaining in the right bottom on LCD panel as an icon. To check the details, do the following:
| Press the Setup button, press the or button to highlight Ink Levels, then press the button.
You see a graphic showing the mount of ink available in each cartridge. B (Black) C (Cyan), LC (Light Cyan), M (Magenta), LM (Light Magenta), and Y (Yellow). When your ink starts getting low, this mark is displayed.
| Press the OK button to return to the previous screen once you have checked the ink levels.
Top For Windows To check the amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridges, do one of the following: Double-click the printer shortcut icon on your Windows taskbar. To add a shortcut icon to the taskbar, See Monitoring Preferences Open the printer driver, click the Maintenance tab, then click the EPSON Status Monitor 3 button. A graphic displays the amount of ink remaining.
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If any of the ink cartridges installed in the printer is broken, incompatible with the printer model, or improperly installed, EPSON Status Monitor 3 will not display an accurate calculation for the amount of ink remaining. Be sure to replace or reinstall any ink cartridge indicated by EPSON Status Monitor 3.
The progress meter appears automatically when you start a print job. You can check the remaining amount of ink from this window. Top For Mac OS X You can check the amount of ink remaining in the ink cartridges using EPSON StatusMonitor. Follow the steps below.
| Access the EPSON Printer Utility dialog box. Accessing the printer driver for Mac OS X
| Click the EPSON StatusMonitor button. The EPSON StatusMonitor appears.
| Note:
The graphic displays the amount of ink that remained when EPSON StatusMonitor was first opened. To update the ink-level information, click Update. If any of the ink cartridges installed in the printer is broken, incompatible with the printer model, or improperly installed, EPSON StatusMonitor will not display an accurate calculation for the amount of ink remaining. Be sure to replace or reinstall any ink cartridge indicated by the EPSON StatusMonitor.
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