In message _wpMi.1237$R%1.157@trndny06, Jan Alter
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We have an Epson 880 at our school that doesn't want to reset the black
ink-out light once a new cartridge is placed in the ink chamber. The light
iremains on solid red. I have tried repeatedly to lift the clamp cover and
reset it (at least 10 times) but the light will not go out. I even tried
using the old cartridge to see if that would work to reset the ink out
light, thinking that the new cartridge might be physically faulty. That has
not helped.
I'm thinking that there may be a pcb malfunction but am not sure. We are
using the printer with an Apple Emac so even considering using the SSC
utility software to overide the out light would not be relevent as the
software is only used for a PC. Any ideas how to deal with this problem?
By the way, I have several other dead 880 printers on hand to scavenge
should anyone have a possible solution.

Thanks,

Jan Alter

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Jan

I have an old 880 which I keep going as it is very inexpensive to run
(3rd party ink carts) and is robust. With decent paper the reports I do
still look good. It works hard, self employed home office. I can see
why you want to resurrect yours, when it fails - not sure what I will
buy.

Apart from changing ink and the occasional good clean, the only
mechanical thing I have done is take out the sponge from the head
cleaning area and wash it. I have used SSC to reset the counters as
think it 'gives up' after 80,000 pages.

The only thing I can suggest is to find a laptop with XP (not Vista),
download SSC, install the printer (not as default), use the SSC utility,
re-set the counters then go back to the mac. Incidentally I normally
use the printer via a port on a network storage drive, so its always on
for the house network, but the SSC utility only works properly when it
is connected directly to a pc. Hardly a problem as I use it SSC rarely.

This site might have something

Http://home.att.net/~arwomack01/

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Richard C