Epson R300 Ink Pads

Frankl

I have just had the message come up on my Epson Stylus Photo R300 Printer to say that parts in the printer are near the end of their life. My printer has now locked up and will not print at all. I have downloaded the SSC Utility to reset the counters but the utility says that it cannot do that on my printer. It says to freeze the ink counter - this won't work either as the printer has locked out.
Can anybody help please.

DatabaseError

only advice i could think of would be ssc (works on my r200), and clean the ink pad (running water)

Regeneration

press and hold the following 3 buttons
stop, power &
Maintenance (the one with red light over)
for 10 seconds
a message will appear on the screen
counter is reset and turn off
turn back on and it should work

Frankl

Thanks Regeneration have followed your advice and it works.

Thanks a lot. saved me quids.

Now I have to clean the ink pads.

SamShornoff

Regeneration wrote: »

press and hold the following 3 buttons
stop, power &
Maintenance (the one with red light over)
for 10 seconds
a message will appear on the screen
counter is reset and turn off
turn back on and it should work

And lo and behold, it did ! Many thanks - now I have to find where the ink pads are, and how to clean them . . . my local PC World Tech Guy told me (for the same problem with my old printer, a Photo 790) that it was easily done using a bit of old tee shirt ! But then I changed to Vista, and the printer would not work anyway . . . :j

smileyjohn

Have a look here http://blog.stinkyinkshop.co.uk/epson-r300-maintenance-tips.html