R2400 Seemingly Died Yesterday
I have printed with an Epson R2400 for the last four years. Yesterday, it stopped working. When switched on, it makes a very brief noise and then the paper feed and ink buttons leds start to blink. Searching the Internet, it turns out it is most probably the wasted ink tank that’s full.
But wait a minute. I installed an external wasted ink tank specifically to avoid this to happen. Yes, but the printer has no way to determine the actual level in the tank, so its internal software counts the (milli)liters of ink it sends there and after a fixed quantity decides it is game over. There is software that allows to reset that counter, but it does not seem to work, apparently the printer is not responding. So that failure was actually programmed in the printer. It is not a bug, it is a feature…
I have left a message on Epson technical support web site, we’ll see.
[...] This is a follow-up on my Epson r2400 death announcement. [...]