Digital BW, The Print

Thanks for the tip Robert.  I'll see if the 2400 can be revived with  
this technique.

Carl
On Dec 1, 2007, at 9:59 PM, robert49brake wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Carl Schofield  
> <list@...> wrote:
>>
>> Not really sure Clayton.  I got the all lights flashing syndrome and
>> warning that the printer needs to be serviced, but nothing specific.
>
> Carl, I just had an R220 go through that today.  Fortunately I've  
> been through it before with
> another R220.  Very possibly could be waste pad registering as  
> full--both red lights flashing,
> something on the order of Internal parts worn out--must be serviced.
>
>  I borrow a Windoze laptop, dowload the Russian utility (SSC) ,  
> load the printer driver onto
> the borrowed PC and use the Protection Counter Reset utility in SSC  
> to reset the waste
> counter.  My experience has been that lots of cleaning cycles will  
> set off the wastepad shut
> down long before it's necessary.  I looked at the wastepad on the  
> printer that shut down
> today and I would say it was less than 1/4 full.  The utility  
> reported 20k whatever cycles out
> of a maximum of 46k allowed. Borrowing the PC (and even worse,  
> having to use it, was a
> pain but it does the trick;)  If you have an intel mac it might be  
> worth a copy of windoze 98
> just to have the SSC utility around.
>