Using the chip resetter requires resetting one chip to borrow some of its code to reset the chip on the 2nd maintenance tank and visa versa. They require you to have two maintenance tanks. The EPSON 3800/3880 waste tank chip resetters are a bit different. We sell replacement chips for most of the expensive cartridges we sell. But generally a resetter can reset a chip from 5 – 10 times before the chip needs replacement. So can you short a chip? Sure you can even just by handling it. You only need to do this when the resetter will not light up red and appears “dead”. The circuit will reactivate when you reinstall the batteries. But, the only way to wake it back up is to remove the screws on the resetter to open it up and remove the batteries for 20 seconds. At that point it will not activate even the red light. The lining up of the resetter can often be a bit tricky and if the resetter detects that it may short the chip it triggers its own safety routine and shorts itself instead. Make sure that you remembered to refill the cartridge with ink. That’s the signal that the chip has been reset to 100% full. Keep the contact steady until the red light turns green. When the resetter makes contact with the circuit a red light will be lit on top of the resetter. This will collapse the pins and allow them to make contact with the circuit inside the resetter and it will reprogram the chip to read 100% full.

You line up the pins on the resetter with the contacts on the chip and press the resetter into the chip.

To use our resetter, make certain you only reset a chip after you have refilled the cartridge fully. (That should indicate to you that the chip is not actually associated with the contents of the cartridge.

The chips on all of our cartridges read full when you receive them even though they are not yet filled. First of all, you do not need to use a chip resetter when you first install our inks and cartridges.

Chip resetter