Epson Stylus Photo RX500 Model C171A Printer flashes up "service required , parts of your printer are at the end of their service life" See your printer documentation. What to do? Stan Kuzborski [email protected] Tel: 1-781-585-4530

It is the protection counter error, the amount of ink discharged by the printer has reached the maximum value allowed and the printer requires to be reset.

To clear the error follow the instructions you can find here:

http://myprinter.altervista.org/simplefaq/mysimplefaq.html#counter

Once the error has been cleared the printer returns operative, however to avoid further problems you should check and clean the waste ink pads where discharged ink is stored.

To reach the pads you have to disassemble your printer, you can find an exploded diagram here:

http://www.compassmicro.com/parts.cfm

I have a message that there is a scanner error??? What is the next step? Thanks