i've never been thrilled with Epson service of tech support, but I do love their printers. Sometimes it's worth putting up with a bit of crap to get the results one desires. Paul
On Oct 18, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > [Default] On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:13:16 -0700 (PDT), Rick Womer > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a P3000 viewer that I have used a fair amount when traveling. >> >> Recently it lost its ability to download files from SD or CF cards. I can >> view the images on the cards, and I can view images already on the hard >> drive, but the download doesn't work. >> >> Emailed Epson support; they told me to call an independent service center on >> Long Island. >> >> Called them; all they do is send the units on to Epson, and charge $289. >> >> $289 to re-flash a chip somewhere? No way. > > What you're experiencing sounds like a hardware problem, so it's > probably "$289 to get a refurb replacement". > > Sad to say, those P3000 and other similar model viewers probably fall > into the "replace rather than repair" category now. I expect that > tablet devices will soon force them out of the marketplace altogether. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

