[Gimp-print-devel] Re: OT: Resetting Canon S series waste ink tank counter...

[Alastair M. R. <bla...@fa...>]

Hi,

Karsten Festag wrote:

> I recorded the data that the windows driver sends and got the attached set of 
> maintenance commands for the S200.

Many thanks for that.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's going to solve my problem.  The S200 
to which I have access has done a lot of work, and the windows driver 
keeps popping up a message that the waste ink tank is nearly full.  Now 
that basically means that the sponge pad that the head rests on is 
saturated, and before long ink will start spilling into the printer.  To 
prevent that happening, the printer will just stop until this pad's 
renewed and a sequence is sent to the printer.  That sequence seems to 
be a jealously guarded secret; I've heard mention of a peice of software 
to do the job, which costs more than twice what the printer's worth. 
Taking it anywhere to be serviced is, likewise, going to cost more than 
its worth.

Epson's guilty of the same practice, but there are at least freeware 
tools to unjam the printer once the job's been done...

All the best,
--
Alastair M. Robinson