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How to extra Epson R285 printer’s Waste ink Pad

The users who use the Epson R285 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 R285 printer will stop printing immediately when this case happens to avoid the waste ink overflowing, the Epson R285 printers can send you the signals of this problem 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 R285 printer's waste ink tray overflow

For the new printer series, the Waste Ink Counter is installed at 100% before the printing process makes the Waste Ink Tray be full or the Waste Ink counter raises.

If you want to solve this problem at home to save time and money, you can go to the online page of our website, then you can buy the WIC RESET KEY to reset the Waste Ink Counter come back to 0% then your printer can work well.

If you are using a new printer, it’s is unnecessary to care about the waste ink pad after the resetting procedure. Besides, you have to clean up the Waste ink pad after resetting the Waste Ink Counter in case your printer is old model because the waste ink can be overflowed and makes your printer can be broken down.

So after resetting the Waste Ink Counter, you need to clean up the Waste ink Pad, this demand some skills of yours and time.

To solve all the problems, you should use WIC RESET TOOL regularly, you won’t need to collect and clean up the waste ink and your Waste Ink Pad is not able to overflow waste ink.

How to void 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 waste ink counters? Waste ink counter overflows?

1. What is Epson R285 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 R285 printer waste ink pads

Waste Ink Pads are a number of porous pads in the inkjet printer that collect, distribute, and also really importantly include 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.

Whenever printhead cleanup process ink flush by printhead to waste ink pad. Then one time it might be overflowed because it cannot absorb ink anymore and then the ink will leak from the bottom of the printer.

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

+ So you can prevent ink leaking outside the Epson R285 inkjet printer the waste ink counter can be overflowed and then Epson R285 inkjet printer is going to stop.

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

To make Epson R285 printer working again – You need to RESET the Epson R285 printer Waste Ink Counter (Read more to learn how to reset epson printer).

2. How to know that your Epson R285 printer waste ink counter overflow?

+ Your Epson R285 printer red light flashing

Epson R285 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 Tool here: Download WIC Reset

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

read Epson R285 waste ink counter

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

3. How to fix Epson R285 waste ink counter overflow?

Step 1: Download WIC Reset Tool and install the program

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 printer to computer that you installed WIC reset tool. Connect your computer to Internet.

+ Follow this guide and reset Epson R285 printer – Read how to reset Epson R285 printer

=> Tips how to avoid Epson R285 printer Waste Ink Counters overflow: Read here

How to avoid Epson R285 printer Waste Ink Pad overflow?

You are using Epson R285 printer and have the problem with the waste ink counter overflow. After you reset, the waste ink still overflows so this post is the hack for you in this case. The Epson R285 Printer is not the same other so you can find the waste ink pad laid in different location.

Let’s read about the ideas then go to the detail step: Do you read some information about the waste ink of the Epson R285 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 R285 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 R285 printer’s waste ink pad.

You can use a bottle to contain the waste ink instead of replacing the Epson R285 printer’s Waste Ink Pad or collect the waste ink from the Waste Ink Pad.


Shall you follow these steps to extra waste ink pad:

Step 1: Checking and open the cover of Epson R285 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 R285 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.

When you see the waste ink pad of the Epson R285 you need to disassemble the shell but the cover is smaller than the waste ink pad so you must to be careful when do this, I think the best thing is the fixer’s help.

Epson R285 printer's waste ink pad look like

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 Epson R285 printer’s 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 afrom the waste ink pad. Please clean it carefully to avoid the broken-down.

take off Epson R285 printer's waste ink tube

Be gentle and careful to avoid folding or cracking waste ink pipes of Epson R285 printer.

Step 3: Tidy the waste ink tube and absorb the waste ink out of the Waste Ink counter, you can use a cylinder to suck the waste ink that is the remnant in the tube of the Epson printer.

clean the Epson R285 printer's waste ink pad and waste ink tube

You need to absorb the waste ink from the sponge in the Waste Ink Pad, if your Epson R285 printer is new you can skip this step but if it’s old one, you must to clean the Waste Ink Pad to avoid overflowing waste ink when you move the printer. The waste ink can flow to othe oponents and make them dirty or broken down.

By absorbing the waste ink out of the Waste Ink Pad, you can go on the printing process without the waste ink overflow problem, you should check regularly to sure that your Epson R285 printer is safe.

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 R285 printer's waste ink tanks

You can see in this picture to know how to install and assemblr all the component together to avoid the Epson R285 printer’s waste ink pad overflow.

Extra Epson R285 printer's wate ink tray successful

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

When the bottle is full of waste ink you can bring it to clean then go on using.

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 R285 printer’s Waste ink counter when it overflow. You can see to install this software in our other post.

Thank you for your seeing post “How to avoid Epson R285 waste ink pad overflow”.

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