The Epson L6170 is a wireless multifunction inkjet printer with a set of refillable ink tanks for low cost printing. Unlike its sibling, the Epson L6190, it doesn’t have any fax functionality, so it can only print, copy, and scan.

It does have an automatic document feeder (ADF), though, a helpful extra that doesn’t exist in the Epson L6160, which has the lowest amount of features among the three MFPs.

Features and Highlights

Due to its ADF, the Epson L6170 is a little heavier than the Epson L6160. On the other hand, it is a bit lighter when compared to the Epson L6190 because the latter carries a bit more component for faxing, but the weight gap is minuscule. All three are painted in black, has the same design, and offers the same amount of ink tanks.

Larger Black Ink Tank

The Epson L6170 has four ink tanks, but the one that contains black ink is twice larger than each of the rest, which should be immediately obvious from looking at the size of the transparent window of the tank shown on the front of the printer.

The larger ink tank allows you to print more monochrome pages and gives you a longer period between replenishment. Because most people tend to print in black more often than in color, it makes sense to have a larger tank for black ink.

Automatic Duplex Printing

A printer having an automatic duplexing feature means that the unit is capable of churning out double-sided pages without any effort on your part but to load paper needed for the printing.

The presence of such function also means that you can save more on the overall printing costs by reducing the amount of paper used for printing.

Ink Pad and Epson L6170 Resetter

Consumers who buy printers for the first time may not know that the Epson L6170 has this component called maintenance box in which there is an ink pad. It is added into the printer to catch ink waste.

The ink waste doesn’t only come from the printer’s cleaning cycles but also from printing borderless pages. Thanks to the ink pad, the waste doesn’t leak out from the printer. The ink pad has a limit, though. When the counter assigned to the ink pad reaches its highest point, the printer stops operating.

While the best solution is to remove the full ink pad and replace it with a new one, Epson L6170 Resetter offers a quick remedy.

Epson L6170 Resetter Free Download

Sometimes it is the small utility like this Epson L6170 Resetter that saves the day. It doesn’t have a proper instruction to help first-time users, so you may need to stumble around it a bit to figure out how to use it to deal with the ink pad problem, but on the whole it is quite easy to understand.

In short, what it does to help you with the problem is to reset the counter that has been tasked to keep track of the state of the ink pad. You can click the link below to download Epson L6170 Resetter for Windows: