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From: Mike on 18 May 2005 12:33 Hi - I just had this statement emailed to me by somebody who ususally knows about these things in a professional capacity: "Epsons are built to stop functioning when the internal counter reaches a certain number, and you do need to be aware of this. Many people aren't.!!" I find this very hard to believe - is it true? I have owned Epsons for many years and never had much trouble with them - but I have never kept one single printer for very long because I keep upgrading, so I might not have reached the "fatal" number of prints on one machine. Cheers
From: Ivor Floppy on 18 May 2005 13:01 "Mike" <noot1967(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:d6fqo2$2c6$1(a)nntp0.reith.bbc.co.uk... > Hi - I just had this statement emailed to me by somebody who ususally > knows about these things in a professional capacity: > > "Epsons are built to stop functioning when the internal counter reaches a > certain number, and you do need to be aware of this. Many people > aren't.!!" > > I find this very hard to believe - is it true? I have owned Epsons for > many years and never had much trouble with them - but I have never kept > one single printer for very long because I keep upgrading, so I might not > have reached the "fatal" number of prints on one machine. > > Cheers Nothing unusual - they have a waste ink pad inside to catch the ink used during cleaning cycles and when purging the printhead either when starting a print job or when the ink carts have been changed.. when that waste ink pad is full the printer stops working the pad is changed and the counter reset. If that didn't happen you end up with ink spilling out all over your desk. In the case of Epson printers its generally easy to reset the counter, but getting to the waste ink pads to replace or clean them can be a tricky process depending on the model.. and as far as I know Canon printers can't be reset and have to be sent in for repair or simply thrown away.
From: Ivor Floppy on 18 May 2005 13:04 Make that: "when that waste ink pad is full the printer stops working UNTIL the pad is changed and the counter reset. " etc.
From: Ron Cohen on 18 May 2005 13:43 I don't think this means the printer has self destruct logic. I suspect what he meant is that there is a counter for the ink cartridges which estimates the number of droplets so as to prevent head damage from out of ink conditions. Installation of fresh cartridges resets the counter. Ron "Mike" <noot1967(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:d6fqo2$2c6$1(a)nntp0.reith.bbc.co.uk... > Hi - I just had this statement emailed to me by somebody who ususally > knows about these things in a professional capacity: > > "Epsons are built to stop functioning when the internal counter reaches a > certain number, and you do need to be aware of this. Many people > aren't.!!" > > I find this very hard to believe - is it true? I have owned Epsons for > many years and never had much trouble with them - but I have never kept > one single printer for very long because I keep upgrading, so I might not > have reached the "fatal" number of prints on one machine. > > Cheers >
From: Davy on 18 May 2005 15:33
To add to Ron Cohen The waste pad works by either a timer, timing the cleaning cycles, the length of time the printer in use etc. and 'flags' an address line within the CPU chip say's no more printing. It is not just a matter of changing the high abosrbancy waste pad, which is usually situated under the printer mechanism. If this is the case you will need to run a programme to reset the 'flag' by inserting a code which is stated in the manual - thus changing the pad is only minor part of the problem, if you had the programme to put the printer in 'service mode' you can just reset the CPU with out changing the pad - BUT THIS WOULD BE VERY MESSY AS THE INK WOULD NOT HAVE NOWHERE TO GO. But you do need to be sure that this is the problem, the service mode will tell you all the status conditions of the printer. Davy |