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

[Phil Deane]

On Tuesday 17 June 2003 11:07 am, David Marsh wrote:
> [Interleaved quoting: please read to end for all comments]
> Phil Deane wrote in gmane.user-groups.linux.scottish:
>  about: Re: Re: Anybody want an HP Deskjet 500 printer?
>
> > 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?
> That's a seriously dodgy practice!

Definatly for real. When I sued the prog it said my counter was at 11006. And 
it told me it stopped at 11000. It just said unknown error in Windows, and 
please take to technical centre.
>
> So, Epson follow the Monsanto GM-terminator-seeds school of business
> ethics, then, do they.. :-(
>
> Is that a, uhh, 'feature' of all Epson printers or just some?
> Do you know if there's a website detailing this?

All Epson Inkjet I think. I found my solution on
http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/printer/5/4186.html

If you go to  http://www.otd.com.ua it shows which printers they can get them 
for.

>
> > It happened to my epson stylus 580.
> >
> > Online I bought a program for $10 which you can use to reset it(in win 98
> > though) and now it works great again.
>
> Oh well, at least you can reset it, but it's a _very_ dodgy practice to
> start with. Is there a Linux solution?

No

In Linux it just stopped. I had a dual boot system with xp and mandrake, and 
had to format a spare drive borrow a copy of 98, install it, add usb support, 
drivers etc, reset it them delete windows. Pain in the ass, but I was on the 
verge of buying a new printer a few times, until i found that.


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Phil Deane
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