Epson Inkjet - apparently un-diy-able to fix ?

Do yourself a favour and get a laser next time.

NT

- got one already (Konica colour laser - very cheap!)

- which is probably why the Epson's sulking....

Just a couple of things the inkjet was better at - though it could be very 'fussy'.

Still suspicious it's not so much died as committed economic suicide.... grr!

When my Epson printer (different model) showed similar symptoms and the same error message, it was the waste ink reservoir which was full. A local Epsom agent was able to reset it for a few pounds.

Stephen

That's OK if you live near Epsom! .-)

Reset it? Or empty the ink reservoir?

Everytime it cleans its heads, it dumps ink into a sponge hidden in the bottom of the case, it keeps a counter of how much of your precious ink it has wasted in this way, when it calculates the sponge can hold no more it throws a hissy fit ... better than leaking gunge all over your desk.

Wow, a salty joke!

Here is a useful site re inkjet repairs.

There is a utility called Epson SSC that you can install to reset the counters. It does work.

HTH

I think most do to be honest, they just have different ways of doing it. The ability of CPUs now to automatically kill off any long surviving machines isnt a good thing, and I daresay it will become common one day.

NT

At least it will run...

It did fall over just after doing ahead-clean - maybe that's it....

Unfortunately, at the moment, it won't even talk to the PC... when you hit the power button you get a green light for about a second then the two red lightd start flashing. The PC's USB recognises that 'something' has been powered up - but can't chat to the printer...

- eventually coming up with 'communication arror'

Epson site has a handy online utility that diagnoses the state of your printer.......and says

"Results of Printer Diagnosis Parts inside your printer require maintenance or replacement."

Bah!

Sounds like that might be the problem - Espon site has so far refused to show me where I can find my local Agent - lots of whizzy interactive maps and a few dead links - none of which help in locating help in Co Cork, Ireland....

...mind, I suspect that if they saw their printer with Compatible carts in they'd probably refuse to play....

Took a look at the site but didn't spot anything ... I have the SSC Service Utility (V4.30) - which just says 'error - maintance request' (their spelling - not mine!)

Does leave one feeling kind of cheated, though..... I guess that's the real annoyance - as I say, I have another printer, but it's the feeling that the Epson's been designed to stop working at some arbitrary point in the future and there's not much that the user can do about it.....

The user can quit buying that brand.

NT

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:39:35 +0100, "Stephen Mawson" gently dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:

A friend of mine placed his epson printer on a hotel room floor. It was in a bag and he did not place it upright. He awole in the morning to copious amounts of ink all over the floor, presumably from the waste ink reservoir. So ... would the same action get yours working again ?

Mike P the 1st

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:17:23 +0000, Adrian Brentnall gently dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:

I downloaded a small prog from a Russsin hack site to overide the "counters" just for this purpose .... I never actually used it as the prob has not arisen .... yet.

Mike P the 1st

Yes - I have that program - but it won't talk to the printer..... The Service manual - which is available here

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:53:38 +0000, Adrian Brentnall gently dipped his quill in the best Quink that money could buy:

There a few people having some success on this forum