Re: Epson R1800 "End of service life warning"

Tony wrote:
"Frank Arthur" <Art@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

The SSC service utility won't reset the R1800 counter.
The Epson service program is needed and can be downloaded from:
http://www.2manuals.com/

The R1800/2400 service manual can be downloaded from that site.
If you want to have a go at replacing the pads, then instructions are in the manual.
.

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