Lexmark Printers and refilling ink cartridges  

Gah! I have been trying off and on the past few weeks to figure out a way to reset my Lexmark printer ink sensor so it shows full or find a way to disable it so I can use the cartridge I refilled. I know the ink cartridge has a chip on it to monitor how many ink drops are used and monitors how many pages have been printed on that cartridge.

On some other manufacture's printers you can place tape over certain pins on the chip and trick the ink sensor system into resetting it self so it will read the cartridge as full. That doesn't work for my Lexmark x4690. I've also tried unplugging the printer and plugging it back in several times to try to get it's flash memory to reset. That doesn't work either.

I've been reading up on it and looks like Lexmark is very territorial about their inkjet cartridges and allowing the customers to refill them on their own. I understand they want to make money but here is my problem with this. The printer cartridges that go to my printer are no longer sold in my area, I bought a printer that was an exclusive to circuit city and only circuit city carried the cartridges and the Lexmark online store doesn't carry them but they promise to carry them soon.

I thought buying a refill kit would help but it appears not, well since I am stuck with the kit looks like I will be buying a different brand of printer that is compatible with the refill kit. Hopefully it won't be too expensive. My lesson has been learned, don't buy printers that are only exclusively sold by one chain of stores because those stores will be the only place to get the ink cartridges and if they go out of business then Lexmark won't carry the cartridges either, you would think Lexmark would at least want the revenue from the ink cartridges and stock the cartridges of well.