Turn your printer back on. The red flashing lights should be replaced by a steady power light, indicating a successful reset. The Critical Physical Component: Hardware Maintenance

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It only resets the software counter. The physical waste ink pad inside your printer is still absorbing ink.

Many heavy users cut the internal tube leading to the waste pads and route it outside the printer body into a small plastic bottle. This completely eliminates the need to ever change internal pads again. Safety Tips and Troubleshooting

This is the most common use for the software. Every time the printer cleans its printhead, excess ink is pumped into a physical absorbent pad at the bottom of the machine. The printer estimates this saturation using an electronic counter. Once the counter hits 100%, the software is required to reset the main pad and platen pad counters back to zero. Printhead Alignment and Cleaning