Thanks for your concern Linda. The patient died this morning once the message appeared “Parts inside the printer have reached the end of their service life.” At this point, I was ready to kill it myself :)
Burial took place a few hours later at the local recycling center. You can send flowers to Epson.
Backstory: A friend gave me the printer (a Stylus Photo R1800) a few weeks ago because his wife hadn’t used it in years and he was never able to get it working properly again. I tried pretty much everything the web suggested to no avail: Four cartridges were clogged beyond help and every nozzle cleaning wasted huge amounts of ink.
In retrospect, it should have come with a DNR tag attached.
Pixetera 
You’ve literally turned printer maintenance into an art form…! Brilliant :-)
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Thanks Nigel. The truth is though that I’d prefer other subjects :)
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Gorgeous. Hard not to hope that your printer will need resuscitation again soon. Meanwhile I’ll enjoy your other offerings. How is the patient doing?
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Thanks for your concern Linda. The patient died this morning once the message appeared “Parts inside the printer have reached the end of their service life.” At this point, I was ready to kill it myself :)
Burial took place a few hours later at the local recycling center. You can send flowers to Epson.
Backstory: A friend gave me the printer (a Stylus Photo R1800) a few weeks ago because his wife hadn’t used it in years and he was never able to get it working properly again. I tried pretty much everything the web suggested to no avail: Four cartridges were clogged beyond help and every nozzle cleaning wasted huge amounts of ink.
In retrospect, it should have come with a DNR tag attached.
:)
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What a story! But you did get a new map out of it, maybe you can explore that new territory.
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