Let me think as it's been awhile since I fought that problem! You have to power it off, then power it on and push one of the buttons (the one that is supposed to be for out of ink) for several seconds. Eventually the holders will move.
This "feature" of the 850 was a real idiotic design! DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: > I recently acquired an Epson Stylus 850N color printer. It worked fie for > like 3 days, then ran out of black ink. Off to Best Buy I went, came home > with ink. Press the 'change ink' button, lots of noise, printhead > "dancing", then printhead slides back under the right-hand side of the > printer where I can't open the ink compartment. I downloaded and installed > Epson's latest printer manager software, click on 'change ink'.. printer > does same song and dance as above, then the software says 'ink does not > need to be changed' > > how in the fsck do I convince this thing that the ink does in fact need to > be changed? > > -- > Douglas J. Hunley > Unix/Linux Admin > http://linux.nf > > Down the wire, off the router, > through the firewall, nothing > but 'Net... -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
