Advent ink cartridges now come in two editions, the early edition that work with early Advent printer models such as AW10 and the new generation ink cartridge that facilitates the Advent AWP10 printer. The old generation cartridges will not work with the latest AWP10 printers and the message ‘ink cartridges not recognised’ will appear in the dialogue window. There is not way to get the earlier generation cartridges to work, you must return them to the supplier you bought them from and ask for the newer ink cartridges. It’s worth mentioning the model of the printer to the supplier when you are ordering the cartridge in the first place to avoid any disappointment.

The good quality compatible second generation ink cartridges will work fine with the Advent printers. These printer is manufactured on behalf of PC World and Currys. It is very similar in its workings to the earlier Kodak models that unfortunately are no longer manufactured. These printer is a good all rounder for general-purpose printing and uses 2 ink cartridges, black and colour. These ink cartridges are not readily available, as compatibles so you might have a bit of searching to do online for them but there are good quality compatibles out there and the savings you make will make the searching worth it.

There are a limited number of Advent printer models as the manufacturers never intended to flood the market with a variety of printers. This means that the new generation black and colour ink cartridges that are available will work with all the printer models. There are good value two packs available order printer ink online print> properties> maintenance> head cleaning. This should sort out any issues such as poor print quality and allow you to print a test page to find out where the issues with your ink are.

If you have other questions or information, please share with us.

If you just stick the cartridges on Brother MFC-J450DW Printer, here's how you do it.



Step 1: What We're Fighting. Brother printers, as you may know, come with a little microchip on the top of the , to "measure ink" and communicate with the printer. This is a thinly-veiled excuse to put a difficult-to-duplicate ID on the cartridge, so you HAVE to use the obscenely expensive brother toner cartridges. The V4ink toner also have such a microchip, that does the exact same function, but hey, it doesn't work in the printer! I wonder why. Aside from that, the two cartridges are almost identical. You'll have to make sure you don't mix them up when you're working.



Step 2: The Breakdown. You'll need some tweezers, or something similar. That's all I used to fix this, was some nail tweezers. Remove the black ink cartridge from the printer, it should have come mailed with one. (It came with only about half ink) on the top, there's that microchip! Gently slide one blade of the tweezers underneath it, turning the blade slightly, like scraping a barnacle off of a ship. Be careful not to push under to the center of the chip, because the underside is where the electric eye is. Carefully take the chip out and set it down.



Step 3: Play It Again, Sam. Do the exact same thing you just did with the Brother cartridge, except to the V4ink cartridge. V4ink used SIGNIFICANTLY better quality plastic, so that one connector might take a bit more work to break. Once you have it free, you can do whatever with it. But before you make it into some fabulous earrings, look closely at the chip. Notice that little notch on the front? That brings me to



Step 4: Prepping the Patient. If you compare the two cartridges, you'll notice there's a little nub of plastic on the V4ink cartridge, that sticks out into the notch on the microchip. Take that little nub with your tweezers and tear it off. It's the better-quality V4ink plastic, but it's still pretty easy.



Step 5: The Transplant. Put the Brother Microchip into the V4ink slot. If you've mixed them up, the Brother microchip is the one that looks like they cut it out of cardboard. The V4ink "third party" microchip looks professional, leave it alone. It should fit nicely into the space made by the other chip, but you may want to check it against another ink cartridge to be sure it lays flat. See if the leftover plastic nub from the first connector fits up with the hole in the microchip. If it doesn't lay flat, try removing more of the second nub, the one that wasn't connected to anything. If all goes well, it should line up perfectly, within a few millimeters of the chip on a normal Brother ink cartridge. (And with those three big gold connectors, a few millimeters is perfectly fine.) The electric eye on the bottom should be aiming down into the hole.



Step 6: Try it out. You don't need glue or anything, and if you want to replace your ink again in the future, I'd recommend not using glue. With your new microchip sorta-firmly wedged in place, push the cartridge back in like you would normally. Your printer should register your little franken-cartridge right away, but if it doesn't. just take it out and adjust the chip again, so it lies like the others.



And there you have it! All ink WORKS. It just takes a little bit more work on your end to put them in.


https://www.v4ink.com