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

[Gavin McCord]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 10:30, Graeme Mathieson wrote:
> 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*.

My Epson Stylus 500 is still going strong, after 6 years. Mind you, I'm lucky 
if I print one page a fortnight.