How to solve Epson R300 red light blinking error

If you have an Epson R300 printer. Now all the red lights are flashing, and You don’t know how to solve this issue.

How to solve Epson R300 red light blinking error

When using Epson R300 printer, you may encounter several flashing complications. The blinking alert advises reset the waste ink counter.

In fact, the printer’s red light blinking because of several causes, but the major cause of flashing is: One of the Epson R300 Waste ink pad counter is definitely overflow.

What means Epson R300 Waste Ink Counter overflow

The Epson printer depends the level of ink flow to waste ink pad and holds this total number into printer’s memory space.

This number known as Protection Counter.

How to know my Epson R300 printer Waste Ink Counters are overflow?

Full waste ink counter of Epson R300 is 100%. Overflow shows that Epson R300 waste ink counters amounts are large than 100%.

It is quite easy to look at Epson R300 waste ink counters with InkReset program.

To know Epson R300 printer waste ink counter detail, open wic reset utility then click on READ WASTE INK COUNTERS button:

To check waste ink counter number

When ever one or more than one counters are overflow – you can’t using printer – you have to RESET Epson R300 WASTE INK COUNTERS.

How to solve Epson R300 waste ink counter overflow

Or how do you reset flashing lights mistake condition on my Epson R300 printer?

While Epson R300 printer washing routine, it dispels ink from its nozzles straight down a waste pipe into an absorbent pad.

Epson has place a counter within their printers (included Epson R300 printer) that counts every page passed through the printer and has set the Epson R300 printer to stopped after a specific number to avoid overflow of the waste ink pad.

Usually, Epson R300 printer’s waste pad is around 35% to 75% whole when the printer starts displaying an error message. Immediately after the initial message, you can only print 19-20 pages before your Epson R300 inkjet printer refuses to prints anymore.

There is a workaround which you can use to totally reset the counter to its first condition. Follow these techniques to resolve “Epson waste ink pad counter in the printer is overflow” error.

Reset Waste Ink Pad Counter for Epson R300 printer

Get the WIC Reset Utility here (WICReset). Use Winzip to extract the downloaded file.

Once extracted and before starting, make sure your Epson R300 printer’s driver already are installed on the computer.

Double-click exe to run the WICReset Utility. Epson R300 adjustment program screen will appear. Select your printer model (Epson R300) in the left sidebar.

Play video how exactly to reset to zero Epson R300 printer waste ink counter overflow here:

video how to reset Epson R300 printer red light blinking

Or you may read the instruction on the best way to make use of wic utility to reset Epson R300 red light flashing problem here:

How to reset Epson R300 printer red light blinking

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