Did you know that Epson printers waste up to half the ink in your expensive cartridges?  They use ink every time you switch them on and during print head cleaning.

You can extend the life of your cartridges by simply never switching your printer off.  I know this goes against the best advice we are given, and we should switch off devices when not using them, but your printer uses just a trickle of power when compared to the impact of manufacturing, transporting and disposing of all the extra cartridges you’ll use if you don’t take this advice.

Please note:  We only recommend you do this if you use your printer twice or more per week.

Do you use Epson compatible cartridges?  Some feedback from our customers who have been using them for years is that updating their driver software caused their printer to reject the cartridges.  So the advice is, if it works, don’t try to fix it.

Any Epson printer not fitted with a colour display communicates error states by flashing different sequences of lights at you.  These are explained in your products instruction manual.

Most combinations are ink out, paper jam or other normal day to day things that can usually be cured easily by yourself.  There are several other states that do require an engineers attentions caused by physical failure inside the printer.

One such state can be fixed by yourself for no cost.  All Epsons will eventually report to you that “parts inside the printer require a service”.  This usually means that the waste ink tank inside the printer is full. The screen message is usually accompanied by the two red lights on your printer flashing alternately.

There is a cunning piece of software, freely available that will get you out of trouble.

Click here to download the software

Sorry Mac users this program only works with a PC.

This software also allows serious cleaning of the printheads.