Try this Hold down the clean/change ink button, power on the printer. This loads default settings.
Let it do its thing, when this green light quits blinking, power off the unit. Hold down the load/eject button AND the clean/change ink buttons and power on the printer. This is a ROM reset. If this doesn?t help its advisable to buy another printer. Parts and labor will run as much if not more than a new printer. But I'm not the last word either. Check some other resources. Brian O'Neal On 12/27/02 11:31 AM, "Bill Rising" <brising at Louisville.edu> wrote: > Hey folks, > > My trusty Epson 740 printer has some trouble: > > Instead of printing nice, precise images, it shoots all nozzles all the > time whenever there is a little bit to print, causing there to be 1cm > high bands of ink-soaked wet paper wherever there are isolated lines of > information, and simply solid black paper when the printed lines would be > less than 1cm apart. > > I thought this might be a software problem, since I've been moving hard > drives from machine to machine and playing with installations, BUT I > found that the problem happens even if I detach the printer from all > computers, shut it off, let it cool down, turn it on, and print a test > page. > > I contacted Epson tech support via email, and their first inclination was > to completely ignore the symptoms and give me the instructions for > printing a test page, followed by 9(!) cycles of cleaning the jets. After > I responded to this, their next advice was to take the 740 in for repair > without any mention of what the problem might be. > > Has anyone seen this symptom before? Anyone have any hints about what to > do about it? > > Thanks, > > Bill > p.s. here is some info (which I think would be irrelevant, but may not > be): > system: quicksilver g4 400 running X.2.3 (but the problem started back > under X.2.2). > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
