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How to avoid Epson DX8400 Waste Ink Tray Overflow?

The users who use the Epson DX8400 Printer series all have the problem while the printing process is happening, this problem called Waste Ink Counter Overflow. The manufacturers produced the Epson printers with an important component called Waste Ink Counter.

This is used to calculate the number of waste ink during printing procedure. After a long period of printing documents, the Waste Ink Counter will gradually raise up from 0% to 100%. The Epson DX8400 printer will stop printing immediately when this case happens to avoid the waste ink overflowing, the Epson DX8400 printers can send you the signals of this error such as the red lights blinking as well as the message on the screen: “The Printer’s Ink Pads are at the end of Their service life. Please contact Epson Support”.

avoid Epson DX8400 printer's waste ink tray overflow

In case the printer is new, the Waste Ink Counter will be installed to reach 100% before both the waste ink pad and the waste ink counter raise up.

You can find the program that is provided by us on the formal website, this software called WIC RESET UTILITY TOOL has the function to take the Waste Ink Counter back to 0%, you can reset Epson DX8400 printer’s Waste Ink Counter by yourself based on the solution on the website, when the resetting is complete, your printer can continuously printing.

However, this error is completely done in case your Epson DX8400 printer is new one, the Epson DX8400 printer’s waste ink pad will not be overflowed. If you don’t clean the Waste Ink Tray after the first resetting process or your printer is old, the waste ink can be overflowed into the printer and make the printer dirty or can make your table soiled and it is the reason for damage of Epson printers.

You have to collect the waste ink out of the Waste Ink Pad after resetting Waste Ink Counter but you need to hajve the good skills and careful when open the printer.

You don’t need to disassemble the components and check regularly to prevent the waste ink from overflowing depending on the better solution called WIC RESET TOOL.

Avoid Waste Ink Counters and Waste ink Pad Overflow.

To find the methods avoid the overflowing of the Waste ink Pad in Epson, we need to find some principles of Waste Ink Counters on the Epson printer.

What is Epson DX8400 waste ink counter overflow and how to avoid?

1. What is Epson DX8400 waste ink counter overflow?

Epson inkjet printers have inside a part of sponge for absorbing and collecting waste inks. It is called waste ink pad.

Epson DX8400 printer waste ink pads

Waste Ink Pads are a number of porous pads in the printer that collect, distribute, and also very importantly contain the ink which is not used on printed pages (Waste Ink).

Waste Ink is collected by these pads during the initial setup of the product, during cleaning cycles and when printing borderless photographs.

Anytime printhead clearing process ink flush via printhead to waste ink pad. So that once it could be overflowed because it cannot absorb ink ever again after that the ink will leak from the bottom of the inkjet printer.

The inkjet printer counts the volume of ink flow to waste ink pad and then stores this number into printer’s memory ==> This number is named Waste Ink Counter.

+ So that you could avoid ink leaking outside the Epson DX8400 inkjet printer the waste ink counter might be overflowed and then Epson DX8400 inkjet printer stop.

+ Full counter is 100%. Waste ink counters overflow means that counters values are more than 100%.

To get Epson DX8400 printer working again – You need to RESET the Epson DX8400 printer Waste Ink Counter (Read more to learn how to reset epson printer).

2. How to know that your Epson DX8400 printer waste ink counter overflow?

+ Your Epson DX8400 printer red light flashing

Epson DX8400 printer red light flashing

+ Your printer LCD screen or computer screen appear: “The Printer’s Ink Pads are at the end of Their service life. Please contact Epson Support” or “The Printer’s Ink Pad is at the end of Its service life. Please contact Epson Support”.

SPKEy1 printer ink pad at the end

=> Read more

+ It is very easy to check Epson waste ink counters with WIC Reset Utility.

Step 1. Download WIC Reset Utility Tool here: Download WIC Reset

Step 2. Run WIC Reset Utility, Click on READ WASTE COUNTERS button:

read Epson DX8400 waste ink counter

Step 3. Watch the popup. If one or two counters are more than 100% (overflowed) – you can not print – you need to RESET WASTE INK COUNTERS number

3. How to fix Epson DX8400 waste ink counter overflow?

Step 1: Download WIC Reset Tool and install the WIC Reset

Download WIC Reset here

Step 2: Buy the WIC RESET KEY

==> Buy full WIC Reset Key

Step 3: Reset your printer with WIC Reset and WIC Reset Key

+ Connect your Epson DX8400 printer to computer that you installed WIC reset. Connect your computer to Internet.

+ Follow this guide and reset Epson DX8400 printer – Read how to reset Epson DX8400 printer

=> Tips how to avoid Epson DX8400 printer Waste Ink Counters overflow: Read here

How to avoid Epson DX8400 printer Waste Ink Pad overflow?

When you apply all the detail hack Epson DX8400 printer’s waste ink pad. We provide you about the problem called Waste Ink Counter bellow, You can find different location of the Waste Ink Pad in different Epson printer series.

Let’s read about the ideas then go to the detail step: Do you read some information about the waste ink of the Epson DX8400 printer? The Waste ink flow into a tube then come to the Waste Ink Pad then the sponge in the Waste Ink Pad will suck all the waste ink, this prevent the waste ink from overflowing out of the Epson DX8400 printer. The sponge has the limited absorbing ability when it is not able to absorb the waste ink, it’ll overflow out of the Epson DX8400 printer’s waste ink pad.

You can use a bottle to contain the waste ink instead of replacing the Epson DX8400 printer’s Waste Ink Pad or collect the waste ink from the Waste Ink Pad.


Please follow these steps to allow the waste ink flow into the alternative bottle:

Step 1: Checking and open the cover of Epson DX8400 printer’s waste ink pad:

Let’s see the cover by turn the printer, as you can see in the picture the small cover, this is the waste ink pad’s cover.

find and open Epson DX8400 printer's waste ink pad windows

Open it and you can see a tube and the waste ink pad with the sponge to absorb the waste ink as the picture below.

Then you can realize that the Epson DX8400 printer’s waste ink pad is larger than the gate to go over the waste ink pad you have already opened, so you must to disassemble the shell and this way needs to be done carefully. You will not be able to fix it by yourself.

Epson DX8400 printer's waste ink pad look like

To avoid this case, you can follow and apply our method that doesn’t need to remove any thing, let’s see in the second step:

Step 2: How to separate the tube from the Waste Ink Pad.

You can see the Waste Ink Pad of the Epson printer and the tube, you had better use the tool to separate the tube from the waste ink pad. This step needs the skills to avoid the damage of the printer.

take off Epson DX8400 printer's waste ink tube

Be gentle and careful to avoid folding or cracking waste ink pipes of Epson DX8400 printer.

Step 3: As you can see in the picture, use a cylinder to suck the waste ink of the Epson printer. After that clean the waste ink tube and absorb the waste ink out of the Waste Ink counter.

clean the Epson DX8400 printer's waste ink pad and waste ink tube

You also need to suck the waste ink form the sponge in case the Epson DX8400 printer is new one you can skip this step but not for the old printer because the old one can be overflow the waste ink while the transferring process is occurring.

By this way, don’t worry about the waste ink overflowing when you don’t use the bottle to contain the waste ink. However, you have to check and suck the waste ink regularly so I think you should use a bottle to collect the waste ink.

Step 4: Install the bottle out of the printer

You need:

– A bottle made from plastic or glass.

– A relative tube is as equal as the tube of the printer.

– The tube connection tool.

Prepare materials to expand Epson DX8400 printer's waste ink tanks

Let’s put the tube into the tube of the Epson DX8400 printer then plug the other into the bottle we have mentioned, don’t forget to put the bottle is lower than the Epson DX8400 printer to sure that the waste ink can flow easily as the picture below.

Extra Epson DX8400 printer's wate ink pad successful

You can print some contents right now to check that Epson DX8400 printer is working well or not as well as the waste ink can be absorbed or not

After the bottle is full of waste ink you can bring it to pour then clean to use again

Watchout: This is an good solution and you can use it in a long-term but you should use a tool called WIC RESET TOOL to reset Epson DX8400 printer’s Waste ink counter when it overflow. You can see to install this software in our other post.

Thanks for your studying page “How to avoid Epson DX8400 waste ink pad overflow”.

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