Printer Problem - "ink Pads Are Nearing The End Of Their Service Life".

[Gizmonster]

Just recently, my printer stopped printing black ink. I printed a test page - all 5 colour inks were fine, but the black ink test was blank, even though the cartridge was showing as full.
Anyway, after several nozzle cleans, the other 5 inks had to be replaced and then they all stopped printing on the test page - all 6 showed full.
Not long after, the following message was displayed on the printer, "The printer's ink pads are nearing the end of their service life. Please contact Epson support."
The printer is an Epson Stylus Photo PX720WD.
I've googled and found many websites offering downloads to fix it, but am hesitant to download from sites I'm not familiar with.
Anyone offer any help please??

[Hymie]

Looking on line, this model is no longer available, with a price tag of over £100.

Unfortunately once the ink pad needs replacing, it’s a software fix to tell the printer it has been replaced – and then the pad needs replacing.

Sometimes you can find the software available for free on the web.

If you only apply the software fix, within a short while, printed documents will suffer from the transfer of ink from the ink pad (which is full).

This is why I won’t spend more than £40 on an Epson printer – because once the ink pad is full, it is uneconomic to continue to use the printer – and time to throw it away.

If you think Epson charges extortionate prices for its ink – wait till you find out how much a replacement ink pad is.

[Gizmonster]

Cheers for the reply - do you think this would help:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EPSON-PX720WD-TX720WD-ARTISAN-720-PRINTER-WASTE-INK-PAD-RESET-UTILITY-NEW-CD-/141434790881?hash=item20ee2ba3e1:g:PZUAAOSwR0JUOAnY

Apparently, when the ink pads register full the first time, they're not actually full, so resetting the counter should work ...... maybe ??

[Hymie]

If you look at the bottom of the ebay advertisement – you will see that it states that the software is distributed freely and globally under the terms of the GNU Public License.

So you may be able to find it for free and save yourself £3.79.

It may well be worth a punt, especially if you have a supply of ink cartridges for the machine (which would otherwise be thrown away with the printer). But what is unknown is how many prints you will make before they suffer from ink transfer from the full ink pad.

[Gizmonster]

Ah right .... I shall look into it further .... and for your swift replies, I shall award you with a BA ..... thanks :)

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