(OT?) printer demands to be serviced and stops....

A new one on me.....

A friend tells me his Epson printer stopped (in the middle of a
lengthy and time-critical print run) saying it was due for servicing,
and refused to print another page. He had to buy a new one....not an
Epson apparently :-)

Anyone else heard of this apparent wheeze to jack up printer sales?

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"Mike Scott" k wrote in
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A new one on me.....

A friend tells me his Epson printer stopped (in the middle of a
lengthy and time-critical print run) saying it was due for servicing,
and refused to print another page. He had to buy a new one....not an
Epson apparently :-)

Anyone else heard of this apparent wheeze to jack up printer sales?


There is a little ink pad inside epson printers, all he needed to do was
undo the printer, remove this pad, clean or replace it, download some
software called SSC service utility and use the function in that software to
reset the protection counter, and his printer would have sprung into life
again, alot of manufacturers are using things like this now, including
cannon and HP, its a con but not a real con.... the ink pad in the printer
absorbs any waste ink and if it done this indefinately sooner or later youd
end up with a overflowing inky mess on your desk, thats why you have to
change or clean it (service it) the con bit is it often tells you it needs
servicing long before in reality it does.

"Mike Scott" k wrote
in message ...

A new one on me.....

A friend tells me his Epson printer stopped (in the middle of a
lengthy and time-critical print run) saying it was due for servicing,
and refused to print another page. He had to buy a new one....not an
Epson apparently :-)

Anyone else heard of this apparent wheeze to jack up printer sales?


You might want to give the following software a try -
http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

It can reset Epson print counts, and more. It's free, too :-)


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"Andrew Z Carpenter" wrote in message
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"Mike Scott" k wrote
in message ...

A new one on me.....

A friend tells me his Epson printer stopped (in the middle of a
lengthy and time-critical print run) saying it was due for servicing,
and refused to print another page. He had to buy a new one....not an
Epson apparently :-)

Anyone else heard of this apparent wheeze to jack up printer sales?


You might want to give the following software a try -
http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

It can reset Epson print counts, and more. It's free, too :-)

Er yes i mentioned that util to him 5 days ago!