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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • With my old brother inkjet, it would say it was out of ink in like 2 weeks because it used an optical sensor on the printer looking through a window on the ink cartridge at aimed at a floating piece of black plastic in the tank that would drop when the ink level went down.

    The thing is, the sponge in the cartridge would soak up the ink and cause the floater to drop when there was still like 90% of the ink left.

    So the key was to just put some black electrical tape over the window on the cartridge and keep using it until it actually stopped printing that color.