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Epson C60 Printer: Green light and red light flashing

I have an Epson C60 Printer, which work fine with my Dell Windows 2000. Recently I bought a Sony Vaio with Microsoft Vista operating system. My son down load a driver from the Internet and the printer works fine for four months. Then suddenly, the green light and the red light are flashing and the printer does not respond. The manual says the printer may have an internal error and I need to contact the dealer. I did not uninstal and reinstal the driver because I am afred the driver on the original disc may not work for Vista operating system. Could someone tell me how to solve the problem. Thanks a lot.

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If both lights are flashing, it usually means the Waste Ink Pads in your printer are saturated with ink and the waste ink "protection" counter has exceeded its limit. You can restore your printer to a working condition immediately by using the SSC utility - download from:

http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

Install it, and double click the ssc printer icon in the bottom right corner (System Tray). Choose Configuration and set your printer type (C60), then close the ssc window. Now right click the ssc icon in the sytem tray and choose Protection Counter. You should see that the current count is above the limit; then choose reset to set it to zero. You will need to fib about having changed the waste ink pads! Turn the printer off then back on again. This will stop the lights flashing and restore normal operation.

However, remember that eventually ink will overflow from the waste ink area and make a dreadful mess, so you must change the waste ink pads before this happens. This requires the disassembly of the printer.

If you decide to have a go at replacing the ink pads yourself, report back and I will provide further help. It is a pretty simple job once someone explains how to get the case apart!

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This is very helpful , if u can further add how to replace the pads it will be a complete guide

  • RGILBERT15 Oct 21, 2010

    THANK YOU !!!

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