[Scottish] Re: Anybody want an HP Deskjet 500 printer?

[Graeme Mathieson]

In <slrnbetq3p.231.lists2003@pepper.viewport.lan>,
on Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:07:53 +0100, David Marsh writes:

>> Epsons have an internal timer, which counts the pages you print, and
>> when it gets too high it just stops working, and reports an unknown
>> error.
>
> eek, is that for real?

I'd hazard a guess that this is a feature of the Epson inkjet printers
which have a separate ink cartridge and print head.  IIRC[1], most
inkjet printers of that era had a combined print head/cartridge and so
when the ink ran out you also replaced the print head.  The Epson inkjet
I had only had a replaceable ink cartridge.  This 'internal timer' was
probably the estimated lifetime of the print head.

Footnotes: 
[1]  And I haven't touched an inkjet printer in *years*.
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