This limitation has been bugging me since I bought this printer 3- years ago. I now have a sucessful 'work-around for the error message 'will not print until cartridge is changed'. You will eventually get this message on the printers screen if you keep printing with a low ink cartridge, or what the printer THINKS is low. It is telling you the 'fuse' count for the cartridge has been tripped and it will no longer recognize the cartridge as usable. It is just a ploy to get you to buy ink and stop you from re-filling your cartridge, under the guise of 'we don't want you to compramise the print quality with inferior ink'. As if you wouldn't know if the print quality was deteriorating.
Work-around: Replace the cartridge and print a few pages. THEN, go into the printers PROPERTIES page and chose 'ADVANCED' tab, then click 'PRINT PROCESSOR' button. Change the Print Processor FROM: 'Dell V313' TO 'WinPrint'. Then change Default Data Type TO: 'RAW [FF Auto]'. Click SAVE. This will by-pass the Dell software and send print jobs directly to the printer, bypassing the 'fuse' . And it does a good job keeping the original document formatting. I have used this sucessfully for over a year on the SAME black cartridge that I have re-filled many times. Once in a blue-moon the formatting is not correct. You can change back to the factory settings for that 1- doc, then back to the modified settings as long as you DO NOT have the 'will not print until cartridge is changed' error in the printer window. Even if you do have the 'not print' error, making the changes to the print proprties will allow the printer to print.
Wonder if Dell will leave this post up?