I’ve had a Dell All In One 948 Printer for about a month now. I primarily got it to use as a scanner and only occasionally to print. However I noticed the other day that it’s stating my ink cartridges (Dell Series 11) are only 33% full. I have literally only printed four pages of text on draft quality since I got this printer and cannot believe that it used 2/3 of the ink doing that. I think that it’s misrepresenting the ink levels and since I’ve read that this particular model printer will not let you print once the ink reaches a certain level, I’m wondering if there is anyway to fool the ink management utility? I’ve read of this being done with other makes/models of printer which would then print 200+ pages on a supposedly “empty” ink cartridge.
New cartridges (which can only be purchased from Dell) are around $60, but I can’t imagine paying $60 every month just so I can print a couple items each month. Basically we’re talking about $720 a year to print 100 pages or less, and I’d like to avoid that if I can.