HP Officejet J3680 low ink warning

How do I get the printer to identify whiich ink cartridge is low on ink? I'm running Windows 7.

The ink levels can be checked from the front panel of the printer as described in this document:
Step one: Check the ink levels
To check the ink levels from the control panel:
Press Setup .
Press the down arrow ( ) to highlight Tools and press OK .
Press the down arrow ( ) to highlight Display Ink Gauge and press OK .
The HP All-in-One displays a gauge that shows the estimated ink levels of all cartridges installed.
Press any button to return to the Tools menu.
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Low ink warning disable 6700 all in one

I would like to know how to disable the low ink warning which comes on everytime I print. I would like the printer to stop keeping track of ink levels. I have a MAC if that makes a differance.

Hi @uhg,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I see that you want to disable the low ink warnings on your HP Officejet 6700, and I am happy to help!
Please see this post, Re: HP Photosmart pop up windows, by my colleague @Sunshyn2005.
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False low ink warning on the 220 Black cartridge

Every time I get a low ink warning on the black PGBK 220 cartridge, upon visual inspection, the cartridge still contains approximately 20-25% of the ink. Non-OEM cartidges especially have a lot a ink left. Makes me think there's a Canon conspiracy in the printer maintenance software to identtify non-OEM cartidges and generate premature low ink wanings. Anyone else have this problem or know how to overcome it?

Hi drott1,
There are two types of ink warnings that will appear with your printer: a "low ink" warning and an "out of ink" warning. The "low ink" warning is designed to occur around the 25% mark. The intention is to give the consumer time to purchase replacement ink if necessary and have it available when the "out of ink" error occurs.
Think of it like the low fuel light on a car. While you still have enough gas to travel around, the warning light is a reminder to fill-up at the nearest gas station so you won't be stranded on the road without fuel. In a similar way, we don't want you to be stranded without ink in the middle of an important print job.
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Low ink warning on C6380

While printing I get a low ink warning after printing only 30 pages with a new (color) cartridge. The printer keeps working fine, but I have to monitor each sheet to insure that I still have ink. How do I know if I'm really out?
--Bob

I have noticed a trend among brand printer makers to supply underfilled ink cartridges and laser toner cartridges with new printers. However, all the big brand name printers like HP, Epson, Canon, that I've seen inform buyers that the cartridges are underfilled. Unfortunately, they rarely use that precise language. Their marketing departments like to use page numbers.
A rigorous study conducted by Center for Science in the Public Interest (a Ralph Nader consumer organization) discovered that software low and out of ink warnings warn users they are out of ink when they have 25% to as much as 50% left. Some shut down printing! This is a good reason to never buy a printer just because its on special or low priced. Always go online with the model name and number and get user reviews first. That "does everything" cute Lexmark for just $49 may cost a fortune in ink Cartridges. Or, that nice $200 color laser printer may come with half filled toner cartridges and even factory refilled toners turn out to cost $129 each. A color laser printer takes 4 toner cartridges!
Color and black page counts are ALWAYS marketing department exaggerations.
How do you know when you are out of ink? The way PC power users always have. You never suddenly go empty. When your print declines in quality, you are very low on ink.
When the software says you are low, remove the cartridge, turn it upside down a few minutes so the remaining ink can get the sensor wet and reinstall it. You only need to do this with printer models (which I will not buy in the first place) with software-hardware setups that shut down printing when it "thinks" ink is low. Most printers only warn. If you can still print, just ignore the warnings.
Laser Printers. When print quality declines: Remove the toners and slowly tilt each one sharply to the left and right. Reinstall toners.
I strongly recommend refilling ink cartridges, especially black ones. The first time or two will take much more time than afterward. For absolute beginners I recommend Automatic Refill Systems. You get about 5 complete refills per system.
I do not use Auto Refill systems for black cartridges, which take only one color but I prefer them for tricolor.
It costs me 60cents to refill my HP black cartridges. Compare that to $27 for a remanufactured black cartridge, or $22 for store refill service. My tri-color cartridges cost me about $3 to refill as I use an Auto Refill System.
Most people get about 3 refills per cartridge, that is 3 refills before they must buy a new OEM cartridge. I get as many as 25 refills. How? Simple. I refill before I need to. I never wait until I get declining print quality.
I just guess when a cartridge is low enough to take some ink and I top off the cartridge. Visit the Stratitech site for detailed instructions in how to refill any ink cartridges. They even have free step-by-step video instructions for each cartridge! Their refill ink is the best. Major corporations buy refill ink by the barrel from Stratitech.
The two things you must attend to: Do not inject too much ink, intentionally inject not enough to totally fill a cartridge. Injecting too much can be messy. Make sure you inject the correct color in each tri-color cartridge partition & do not get colors mixed in your syringe.
--J
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LOW INK WARNING

Hi,
I have the Deskjet F4400 printer and I changed the color ink cartridge with the HP 60XL today, 1/4/2011. When
I print anything, I get a low ink warning box that comes up stating that the introductory print cartridge is low on ink:
tri-color. I have had this printer for several months, and this issue has not come up before. Now, evey rtime I print,
I get the warning. I check the box that states in the future do not show this warning, but it still comes up every time I print.
I had changed the black cartridge with an HP 60XL on 12/14/2010 and never had this issue.
Thanks.

DJ 940c: Installed 78XL Cartridge, it works; printer cartridge light off; Toolbox Low Ink warning on

This is a real workhorse printer and I love it. And looking at this forum, many people feel the same way for everyday color printing. But, on Wednesday, 7/7, I bought a bew HP tri-color cartridge because the old cartridge had run out of yellow ink (for real), the printers's cartridge light was staying on and the HP DeskJet 940c Series Toolbox program had a "Tri-Color Print Cartridge Low On Ink" warning in my Win XP SP3 System Tray. The office supply chain store I went did not have the usual HP 15-78 Combo cartridge set I buy nor did it have an HP 78 tri-color standalone cartridge. They did have a 78XL tri-color cartrige which (supposedly) can print "up to 2X MORE PAGES" because it has twice the amount of ink the HP 78 cartridge has. The package listed the HP deskjet 940 and the store tech person assured me the cartige would fit and I bought it, installed it (yes, it did fit), and aligned the cartridges. A test print using a sprite jpg file I got from Amazon's site printed beautifully. The printer's cartridge light was off but then I noticed the icon in the System Tray. The HP DeskJet 940c Series Toolbox program still had a "Tri-Color Print Cartridge Low On Ink" warning. I turned the printer off, waited awhile, turned the printer on, still had the warning. Restarted the computer. Still had the warning. Am I doomed to always have this Low Ink warning with the 78XL cartridge? Is there some value in the Window's Registry I can chage so the warning goes away until one of the cartridge colors really does get low on ink? If I can do this and I actually do this deed, will the problem occur again if I install an 15XL cartridge? Is this a problem becuause the printer driver or some other HP software does not recognize the signals coming from the 78XL Cartrige chip? If this is the case, are you going to update the drivers from way back (say Microsoft unsupported Windows98 to and through Windows 7, skip 8.x, and 10?

Is the cartridge an original HP or is it a third party remanufactured or refilled cartridge? If you open the printer lid with the power on where does the carriage pointer point?

I received a low ink warning on my mac for my epson artisan 837 printer. I replaced the cartridge that was low but it still reads low ink on the mac but reads full on the epson control panel. I am also receiving a communication error between the mac

I received a low ink warning on my mac for my epson artisan 837 printer. I replaced the cartridge that was low but it still reads low ink on the mac but reads full on the epson control panel. I am also receiving a communication error between the mac

What exactly is the error?
And, we'd need some info re. your Mac model and OS version - you are not running iOS on it.
You need to realize that this model has been discontinued and the last driver updates are dated about a year ago. If you are running Mavericks, there may not be an updated driver for it. But you can try to delete the printer and add it again to see if that will work.

Turn off low ink warning on F4180

I would like to turn off the 'low ink' warning pop-up within the HP Solutions center with the Deskjet F4180 without disabling bidirectional communication. Does anyone know how to do this?

hsteinbe wrote:
Really HP? You are going to fill my 24" screen with low ink warnings. 18 warnings? I don't need any warnings. I need to be able to turn them off.
Anyone else out there want them off too? Please let HP know!
For Windows systems turning off bidirectional support in the port settings may resolve the issue. I see in another post that you are running OS X. For this question you may have better results posting your question in HP's Mac Printing Forum.
Please be aware that this forum is a peer to peer support forum, it is not a direct link to HP support.
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Pixma Pro 100 low ink warning

Does the Pixma Pro 100 auto stop when insufficient ink is available to print properly or is the 'low ink' warning all you get until the it doesn't print correctly?

Hi mrjcall,
The PIXMA PRO-100 will warn you when the ink is "low" and stop printing when the ink is "out". Keep in mind that when the low warning appears, you have about 25% of the ink left in your ink tank.
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How can I disable the low ink warning messages.

How can I disable the low ink warning messages. The Photosmart Plus B210 printer is connected wirelessly to my Mac over a home network..

Open up a terminal (use spotlight to search for 'terminal')
Find the process ID of the HP Device monitor by doing
ps -eo pid,command | grep "HP Device Monitor"
The process id will be the number that is printed. Sometimes you may see two results, the correct result to use should print "/Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HP Device Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HP Device Monitor"
Then using the number you got from the first step, run the following command.
sudo kill -9 <pid>; sudo rm -rf "/Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HP Device Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HP Device Monitor"
You will be prompted for your admin password.
Below is an example of when I ran it:
John-MacBook-Pro:~ john$ ps -eo pid,command | grep "HP Device Monitor"
90509 /Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HP Device Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HP Device Monitor
90513 grep "HP Device Monitor"
John-MacBook-Pro:~ john$ sudo kill -9 90509; sudo rm -rf "/Library/Printers/hp/hpio/HP Device Monitor.app/Contents/MacOS/HP Device Monitor"

How do I enable the low ink warning message on the HP 7520 e all in one printer

How do I enable the low ink warning message on the HP 7520 e all in one printer? Or is it even available on this model?
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ccardwell,
Welcome to the HP Forum.
The following Assumes a Recent Windows Operating System is installed on your computer...
The Photosmart 7520 allows you select when you would like to receive Ink Alerts:
Right Away -- as soon as there is a need for attention
Only when you initiate a print job
The Full Feature Software installation procedure places the Printer Assistant shortcut on the Desktop.
Install Full Feature Software – Photosmart 7520
Open the Printer Assistant shortcut > tap on the Estimated Ink Levels icon (along the top ribbon) >
Toolbox opens > Select tab Advanced Settings >
Under Show Alerts > CHECK desired setting
Click Close
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HOW DO I TURN OFF THE LOW INK WARNING ON MY OFFICEJET 7500A

Hi everyone
I have a officejet 7500 all in one printer which is a couple of years old now. I have a ciss system on the printer due to the amount of printing i am now trying to do, however i am now having the really annoying problem of the low ink level pop ups keep on showing. Can any of you wonderful people help me and tell me if these pop ups be turned off. I have Windows 8.1. Please Please help
Cheers
Clive

There should be a option in the printer software to turn off the ink warnings, you can customize the settings yourself in there. I think it's printer maintence.

Low ink warning for color cartridges, but I have not done any color printing in HP6700

I have an Officejet 6700 All-in-One. I moved about a year ago. When I installed the printer I got a warning that the color cartridges where low. I replaced the color cartridges. I have gotten the same warning of Low ink in color cartridges, but I have not done any color printing. During the year I have printed no more than 10 test pages that have color, but no other color printing. I leave the printer on all the time. Could this be why the color ink warning appears?

Hi,
Each time you turn on the printer, it uses color inks even you don't use color inks to print. It needs and uses color inks during warming up process.
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BH
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Officejet 6600 low ink

I use black and white printing 95% of the time (black ink). I just got finished replacing ALL the cartridges a few weeks ago and now I'm getting messages to check all the cartridges for low ink. This printer will not print even black only if the color cartridges are low on ink. Any body got this problem, and suggest a workaround? Thanks.

Hi bluechair and welcome to the HP forums!
It looks like you're having some issues with the ink in your Officejet 6600. I'm sorry to hear that, but I will definitely have a look into things with you
This first thing I would suggest is that you make sure the printer is plugged directly to a wall outlet. That will ensure the printer is getting all of the power it needs to function properly.
If that makes no difference I'd then suggest you make sure your printer is Getting the Latest Firmware and Product Updates.
If that still doesn't appear to change anything, can I ask what type of cartridges you're using? Are they genuine HP, or have they been refilled? Are they generic brand or anything like that?
Hope to hear back from you soon!
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How can I over-ride the low ink warning on a 4630

I want to continue printing with my black ink cartridge even though the warning appears about print quality. When I press "OK" nothing happens, the warning remains displayed and the printer will not print.

Hi,
When the ink is too low on the placed cartridge you cannot print till replacing it.
You may use Reserve Mode by completely removing the depleted ink artridge from the device, then you may print using the installed cartridge.
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