How do you know when your printer is all out of ink? -

Lexmark Z45, is there any expierment or something you can do to find out?

Well, every printer usually has a print a test page option. Try going to start gt; settings gt; printer and faxes. Then click on your printer and look for printing a test page.

when it stops printing ink

You can check the level of ink in your printer by going to control panel, click on printers and other hardware, then printer, right click and choose properties. At the bottom of the general tab it will say printing prefferences, click on that, another window will open with several tabs on the top. You want to choose services, click service this device and you will be given even more options. One of those options is estimated ink level. Hope this helps.

when it starts printing blank pages!!!! duh

You will notice by the colour of the ink on the paper. Print a test page from the diagonstics and check your colours

after u print.... a little message pops up telling u that ur printer is low on ink and that u need to replace the ink cartridge.

if there is not a light in the side, then you can tell when you print something... the colors will be faded and messed up...

First off the print starts with horizontal lines of missing ink, then it gets worse. Whatever you do stop printing when you first notice and replace the cartridge straight away. Carrying on can mess up the printer.

It tells me. I have it set that way. See if you can get into a quot;Settingsquot; or quot;Optionsquot; menu when you try to print a page. I don t know much about Lexmarks. Mine is a Cannon. I DO know that Lexmarks DO have that option/setting in their program somewhere because my late husband had a Lexmark on his computer. I had to throw it away when he died because he spilled chocolate milk in it and it was WAAAY older than my Cannon anyway. And what do I need TWO printers for, anyway?LOL You can try going to Lexmark s website to see if you can find info on your printer there if you don t have the instruction booklet that came with it. That way you can find out how to set it to tell you like I have mine set to tell me.

I use Windows XP Prof., and a Cannon printer. My printer has two cartridge, one black and one color. Type something in word pad and click on print. My pc will show on the bottom Right hand side of my monitor both tanks and will advise me that I am low either on the color or the black. Open and printer and check to make sure that the cartridge contacts are in correct or else the ink will not flow out of the jets.

When you hit the quot;printquot; button, a screen will pop up and notify you that you have low ink. And the pages will start coming out not that clear. But also when you hit print, a screen normally pops up to tell you how far it s gotten in printing, and it shows the level of both your black and/or color ink.

the software tells you for most printers. and if it is not printing that is always the first thing to check.

it should tell you or warn you if it s low on ink....and newer ones sometimes have an approximate ink level diagram

Well....first, it stops printing.....

Take out the ink cartridges...lick them (the little ink jet part). If it doesn t taste like ink, it s out.