Epson 830u displays this message and middle button red light flashes! Do you have any ideas? John Parts inside your printer are at the end of their service life. Contact your dealer for replacement

probably refers to empty cartridges
everything has a service life and it could be a possible part that is wearing out and needs replacing

you have 2 options --ignore it untl it stops performing
or get in a service technician

please inform about that that are alternet blinking or not......... if alternet blinking you need to reset wast pad counter. you can download from indoreset website a adjustment program.

You have to reset the printer's counter. Read this link

http://tricks-collections.com/reset-epson-stylus-color-printers/

It also have links on adjustment programs to your printers' model. Just browse down to see the link.

Goodluck

Basically your printer says that you need to replace the waste ink pads. If this happens for the first time to this printer you can just reset the counter using SSC Service Utility (http://www.ssclg.com/epson.shtml) or if it happened more than once you shoul first replace the ink pads and then reset the counter or the printer may overflow. That's it.

Reset the waste ink counter!
Assuming you have completed your modification you can reset your printers waste counter using this method (I did this and it worked on the CX6400) can't guarantee it works on all)
1. You will see big button on your printer like power on (this is on the left
2. side), black & white photocopy, color photocopy, and then the stop button (these are on the right side).
3. first turn off your printer
4. push the b/w + color + stop buttons together and hold
5. push the power on button and hold (so you'll now be holding down 4 buttons together)
6. Don't release all the buttons until you see the light indicator is blinking and then a message display on the lcd
7. release all the buttons
8. push the color button (once)
9. turn off the printer
10. turn it on again
After this one may need to reload the printer driver and locate the printer!

I realised that I had to replace both the ink cartridges even though I only wanted to replace the black for it to work. Once I replaced both the black and colour cartridge the red light went off. Thanks

your printer wast pad is full so the printer need to be reset if you dont have the tool let me no

Contacted Epson online, drivers OK and up to date no problem, but unfortunately there solution so far as not solved the problem either but they have promised to get back to me today hopefully with better news.
Thank you anyway

Brian Prince

Hi-

yes actually there is. the parts its talking about is the inkpad, you can send this over to an epson certifies servicer in your are to have inkpad change and they will reset the counters for it. go this link and look for a servicer near your place
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/SupportIndex.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

or you can contact epson at 562-276-1300

pls rate as fixya if helpful. thanks!!

display This massages Parts inside your printer are near the end of their service life.
See your printer documentation.