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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
I bought my Epson R1800 in August 2005.
Has been working beautifully producing mostly Epson Premium Glossy prints. Without warning prints began to come out poorly this morning followed by the following error message: "Requires Service Parts inside your printer are near the end of their service life. See your printer documentation." I contacted Epson and was told that I need to bring the printer to a nearbly city for servicing. Is his common for the service life of about 18 months for a $500 printer such as this? Have other R1800 users faced with the same problem? And what did he servicing entail? |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
"Frank Arthur" wrote:
I bought my Epson R1800 in August 2005. Has been working beautifully producing mostly Epson Premium Glossy prints. Without warning prints began to come out poorly this morning followed by the following error message: "Requires Service Parts inside your printer are near the end of their service life. See your printer documentation." I contacted Epson and was told that I need to bring the printer to a nearbly city for servicing. Is his common for the service life of about 18 months for a $500 printer such as this? Have other R1800 users faced with the same problem? And what did he servicing entail? This message means that the printer thinks the waste ink pads are full and so it refuses to print until the pads are replaced and the waste ink (protection) counter is reset. In practice the pads will not be full if this is the first time you have received the message so all that needs to be done is to reset the counter. Next time you must replace or clean the pads. Go to http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml and download the utility. Install it, run it and exit it from the main window, now go to the icon in the system tray and right click on it. Select waste ink or protection counter and select reset. If this gives trouble then uninstall the Epson status monitor and try again (you can install the status monitir again afterwards). The irony is that the more you use an Epson printer the more reliable it will be (due to the heads being kept in good condition) but the people that use their printer most will get this message earlier than others. Some people never see this message. It is a good printer and well worth the effort of doing this at no cost. Tony MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
Thanks for your help Tony.
Is it common for both red lights flash (both ink button and paper feed button) after the "Requires service" warning shows? "Tony" wrote in message news "Frank Arthur" wrote: I bought my Epson R1800 in August 2005. Has been working beautifully producing mostly Epson Premium Glossy prints. Without warning prints began to come out poorly this morning followed by the following error message: "Requires Service Parts inside your printer are near the end of their service life. See your printer documentation." I contacted Epson and was told that I need to bring the printer to a nearbly city for servicing. Is his common for the service life of about 18 months for a $500 printer such as this? Have other R1800 users faced with the same problem? And what did he servicing entail? This message means that the printer thinks the waste ink pads are full and so it refuses to print until the pads are replaced and the waste ink (protection) counter is reset. In practice the pads will not be full if this is the first time you have received the message so all that needs to be done is to reset the counter. Next time you must replace or clean the pads. Go to http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml and download the utility. Install it, run it and exit it from the main window, now go to the icon in the system tray and right click on it. Select waste ink or protection counter and select reset. If this gives trouble then uninstall the Epson status monitor and try again (you can install the status monitir again afterwards). The irony is that the more you use an Epson printer the more reliable it will be (due to the heads being kept in good condition) but the people that use their printer most will get this message earlier than others. Some people never see this message. It is a good printer and well worth the effort of doing this at no cost. Tony MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
hey measly, what the **** is this you're spewing? In article , measekite wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" html head meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /head body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" br br Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote: blockquote " type="cite" pre wrap=""In article <pHm1i.1455$t7.795@bigfe9>, "Frank Arthur" a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" "<Art@Arthurian. com>/a wrote: /pre blockquote type="cite" pre wrap=""I bought my Epson R1800 in August 2005. Has been working beautifully producing mostly Epson Premium Glossy prints. Without warning prints began to come out poorly this morning followed by the following error message: "Requires Service Parts inside your printer are near the end of their service life. See your printer documentation." I contacted Epson and was told that I need to bring the printer to a nearbly city for servicing. Is his common for the service life of about 18 months for a $500 printer such as this? /pre /blockquote /blockquote br What is the average number of prints per week do you make?br blockquote " type="cite" blockquote type="cite" pre wrap=""Have other R1800 users faced with the same problem? And what did he servicing entail? /pre /blockquote pre wrap=""!---- a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/2nxrjl"http://tinyurl.com/2nxrjl/a /pre /blockquote /body /html OMG, that dumb **** measher****head, is now posting in HTML! Hey jackass, HTML is not allowed in ng's. Got it lamer? Frank |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
Frank
If they are blinking alternately, yes this is normal for this condition. If they are blinking in unison (ie both on at the same time) then that is a different error. Tony "Frank Arthur" wrote: Thanks for your help Tony. Is it common for both red lights flash (both ink button and paper feed button) after the "Requires service" warning shows? "Tony" wrote in message news "Frank Arthur" wrote: I bought my Epson R1800 in August 2005. Has been working beautifully producing mostly Epson Premium Glossy prints. Without warning prints began to come out poorly this morning followed by the following error message: "Requires Service Parts inside your printer are near the end of their service life. See your printer documentation." I contacted Epson and was told that I need to bring the printer to a nearbly city for servicing. Is his common for the service life of about 18 months for a $500 printer such as this? Have other R1800 users faced with the same problem? And what did he servicing entail? This message means that the printer thinks the waste ink pads are full and so it refuses to print until the pads are replaced and the waste ink (protection) counter is reset. In practice the pads will not be full if this is the first time you have received the message so all that needs to be done is to reset the counter. Next time you must replace or clean the pads. Go to http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml and download the utility. Install it, run it and exit it from the main window, now go to the icon in the system tray and right click on it. Select waste ink or protection counter and select reset. If this gives trouble then uninstall the Epson status monitor and try again (you can install the status monitir again afterwards). The irony is that the more you use an Epson printer the more reliable it will be (due to the heads being kept in good condition) but the people that use their printer most will get this message earlier than others. Some people never see this message. It is a good printer and well worth the effort of doing this at no cost. Tony MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
Tony wrote: "Frank Arthur" wrote: I bought my Epson R1800 in August 2005. Has been working beautifully producing mostly Epson Premium Glossy prints. Without warning prints began to come out poorly this morning followed by the following error message: "Requires Service Parts inside your printer are near the end of their service life. See your printer documentation." I contacted Epson and was told that I need to bring the printer to a nearbly city for servicing. Is his common for the service life of about 18 months for a $500 printer such as this? Have other R1800 users faced with the same problem? And what did he servicing entail? This message means that the printer thinks the waste ink pads are full and so it refuses to print until the pads are replaced and the waste ink (protection) counter is reset. In practice the pads will not be full if this is the first time you have received the message so all that needs to be done is to reset the counter. Since that may or may not be the case for every printer Epson sells the are conservative to make sure you do not damage any of your personal property. You can take a risk if you want to and you can choose to service the printer if you do not want to worry about it. Next time you must replace or clean the pads. Go to http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml and download the utility. Install it, run it and exit it from the main window, now go to the icon in the system tray and right click on it. Select waste ink or protection counter and select reset. If this gives trouble then uninstall the Epson status monitor and try again (you can install the status monitir again afterwards). The irony is that the more you use an Epson printer the more reliable it will be (due to the heads being kept in good condition) but the people that use their printer most will get this message earlier than others. Some people never see this message. It is a good printer and well worth the effort of doing this at no cost. Tony MS MVP Printing/Imaging |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:41:37 -0400, "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
wrote in : Hey measly, your stuff is coming across as FULL CRAP. The formatting, I mean. I can't speak to the content, because it apparently has no content. That would be in keeping with his usual postings. -- Nicolaas. 2007 Pricelessware CD now available. 600Mb of the best of the best in Freeware. E-Mail me for details. .... Never trust a skinny cook! |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
Nicolaas Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:41:37 -0400, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" wrote in : Hey measly, your stuff is coming across as FULL CRAP. The formatting, I mean. I can't speak to the content, because it apparently has no content. That would be in keeping with his usual postings. Yeah that piece of **** has resorted to posting in HTML! Killfile the moron! Frank |
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Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"
Tony wrote:
In practice the pads will not be full if this is the first time you have received the message so all that needs to be done is to reset the counter. Next time you must replace or clean the pads. Is there a panel that can be removed on the R1800 to access the overflow tube which goes to the pad - like the R200 series? |
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