Epson end of service life fix

I have a epson R2400 that gave me the dreaded end of service life message then stopped printing. This is given because the inkpads that hold the excess ink need to be replaced, at a normal service interval. Naturally Epson suggests you replace the printer, because the cost of replacing the pads can be expensive, but can be done. My opinion on this is like everything else it is done by epson as a CYA fix, because it probably is done at the earliest possible time when the pads could possibly be full.
I love epson to death, I swear by their printers. I searched and found reference to a SCC utility that several people said "sometimes works" on the R2400 to reset the counter so the printer would keep working. For me it did not work. I was going today to go bite the bullet to buy another printer having $150 of non returnable ink sitting on the shelf for the R2400.
I primarily use the printer now to print contact sheets and ocasionally prints for clients, most work is printed through a lab. I am 80% retired from photography, shot full time for over 25 years.
To me, resetting the counter to allow a printer I was gonna throw in the trash to keep printing till it dies makes a lot of sense. So, put a thick old towel under the printer, use the link below to reset your printer and use it till YOUR PARTICULAR PRINTER actually does reach the end of its life, which I am betting will be at least another year or so for me, maybe even more.

Now that I have bored you with my printer history, here is the link:

http://www.epson.com …e/support/InkPa​dsForm.jsp

Keep on printing!!

I've reset my R200 twice now and still going strong,put something like 3 litres of each colour through the printer and it still prints an excellent photo.I have pulled the ink waste line out from the back of the machine and have it in a small pot outside the machine so it does not fill up the ink pads, and which gets emptied now and then.i also have an epson 10600UC which i do my larger printing on,and the bonus is I have an official epson engineer friend who comes amd resets my machine errors when and as needed.

I've reset an R300 four times with that utility... so far. So the "service life" is a wee bit more than Epson would like you to believe. Of course, they'd prefer to sell me a new printer. But the price of their ink is bad enough.

I don't have an Epson, but still interesting to read about! It's the same thing they all try. My brother BW laser printer will stop printing when it's programmed to say that the toner is empty. If you tape the sensor to trick it and shake the cartridge, you can get as many as 1,000 more pages out without much of any noticeable difference. I'm not kidding, it's up 1,000 pages or more they don't let me print out of the average cartridge