Replacing waste ink pads in Epson R800 printer

Hello, I am new to this forum. I have an Epson R800 Printer which works
fine. I have had previous Epson printers that I replaced the ink pads
in and I thought I would do that on this printer before I got the
service message. I already have the utlity to reset the counter. Is
there any instructions available for doing this and can replacement pads
be purchased. It does appear a bit more complicated in this printer
than my previous one. Thanks for your help

Unfortunately, Epson stopped supporting the front panel button presses
to reset the waste ink protection numbers about 3 or so years ago,
because the information became too available. The newer models,
including the R1800 require a software solution.

For the R1800, one can either get the software from Epson is your unit
is a North American Serial Number at:

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/s...nkPadsForm.jsp

Or possibly the SSC software will work.

http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

Pad replacement is somewhat of a hassle, both in terms of finding
replacement pads and dismantling your printer. A usually better
solution is to reset the waste ink monitor and to extend teh waste ink
tube(s) outside of the printer and into a bottle.

For more details in this regard check out the following links as
examples of some ways to do this:


http://www.inkrepublic.com/WasteInkKit.asp

http://www.inkrepublic.com/Knowledgebase/WasteInk.asp

http://www.inkrepublic.com/Knowledge...00WasteInk.asp

http://www.inkrepublic.com/Knowledge...00WasteInk.asp


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If you are interested in issues surrounding e-waste,
I invite you to enter the discussion at my blog:

http://e-trashtalk.spaces.live.com/

Joel wrote:
wilsok wrote:

Hello, I am new to this forum. I have an Epson R800 Printer which works
fine. I have had previous Epson printers that I replaced the ink pads
in and I thought I would do that on this printer before I got the
service message. I already have the utlity to reset the counter. Is
there any instructions available for doing this and can replacement pads
be purchased. It does appear a bit more complicated in this printer
than my previous one. Thanks for your help

Each model has different KEY pressed combination, so I would suggest you
to GOOGLE for the Key Pressed combination.

Google was where I found the key combo for my Epson Stylus 900 which I had
the waste ink pads cleaned (I cleaned instead of replace) twice. While
searching for the Key Combination for the Epson 900 I ran into many other
models.