Is the waste ink counter overflow error the ‘nightmare’ of your Epson L3250 printer? We’ll show you how to reset it professionally – NO COST, NO TECHNICIAN NEEDED so your printer can work immediately to continue your tasks.
Problem: Epson L3250 printer shows waste ink counter overflow error, always displays error when sending print commands.
Detailed description:
When you turn on the machine, three lights (Power light + Ink Error Indicator + Paper Error Indicator) will flash continuously together (blinking on and off).
When sending print commands from your computer – the printer won’t print.
You’ll receive a notification about “The ink pad is at the end of its service life – Service Required“.
If using WIC Reset Utility software to read the waste ink counter, you’ll see it has exceeded 100%.
Why does the waste ink counter overflow error occur?:
The answer is quite simple: It’s all about protecting your printer.
Signals that the waste ink counter is full; the waste ink pad inside the printer has reached the limit of absorption cycles allowed by the manufacturer.
The machine stops printing to prevent ink from overflowing outside.
What’s the solution? Reset Epson L3250 printer with WIC Reset Utility and free Reset Key.
You’re printing documents and this error appears, you urgently need to complete printing, just spend 2 to 5 minutes following the guide below and you can completely get your printer back to work so you can finish your tasks.
Advantages of free reset key:
Can reset the printer immediately without waiting to purchase a reset key.
100% free without needing to prepare payment cards.
Can determine whether WIC Reset Utility software works with your printer or not.
So what is the free trial reset key for Epson L3250?
Like many other printer models, WIC Reset Utility software doesn’t distinguish reset keys between printers (except some special Epson models), otherwise each reset key can reset printers supported by the software.
And with the Epson L3250 printer you can completely use 1 of 2 free reset keys which are:
TRIAL or trial
How to reset Epson L3250 printer with waste ink counter overflow error completely free.
Step 1: Preparation
Connect printer to computer via USB cable: This is necessary to avoid “Query is rejected” error
Access https://resetkey.net/download –> Download WIC Reset Utility and install
Prepare reset key: TRIAL or trial.
You can also buy reset key on the website here for $8.99 (you’ll receive the key via email)
You need to turn off Epson Status Monitor 3 following the guide here.
Install driver for Epson L3250 printer if not installed yet, specifically for Windows 11 operating system you’ll need to install printer driver downloaded from Epson.com to avoid errors.
Step 2: Operations on WIC
Open WIC Reset Utility software
Click “Refresh detected printers list” for WIC to recognize the Epson L3250 printer.
On the right side of the program, click the “Control” tab if you’re on a different tab.
Click “Read waste counters” button to read and check the waste ink counter index. This step has 2 purposes: 1 is to check whether the software and printer can communicate, 2 is to confirm whether the waste ink counter has overflowed (>=100%)
If one or more of the counters is greater than or equal to 100%, then you can proceed to reset the counters. If all counters remain below the 100% threshold, the printer may be experiencing another issue.
Click “Reset waste counters” to start reset Epson L3250’s waste ink counter:
Enter key: TRIAL or trial (or reset key you purchased.)
Step 3: Completion
Turn off printer, wait 10–15 seconds, turn back on
If you check the waste ink counter again, you’ll see it has been reset to 80%.
Error light turns off, prints normally! You can try printing.
Read more: How to reset Epson L3250 with FULL RESET KEY (reset waste ink counter to 0%)
What are the disadvantages of using free reset key? What should you do afterwards?
Free reset key only helps reset the Epson L3250 printer’s waste ink counter to 80%, the printer will soon overflow the waste ink counter again after several print jobs.
You can only use the free reset key for each printer once only. If you’ve used it already, you should buy the full version reset.
Buy full reset key when you successfully reset your Epson L3250 printer with free reset key, cost only $8.99/1 reset, 10% discount when buying 2 or more reset keys – has 100% refund policy, flexible payment.
After completing the printer reset, you should take time to check the waste ink tray to see if it’s full, needs replacement or cleaning if it’s full, dirty and you feel it might overflow quickly.