When you say it stops printing, do you mean the printer mechanism stops
moving, as if the printer weren't "on", or that it moves but no print is
produced after a few lines even though the printer's head carriage is
still moving back and forth?

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Dale Allen wrote:
> I have an old Epson Stylus 600 printer that was hooked up to my
> daughter's computer. This spring it suddenly just quit printing. This
> weekend I finally got around to hooking it up to another computer to
> diagnose it. It still will not print using the regular Centronics
> parallel cable but I got it to be recognized using a USB to parallel
> cable. I can get it to do cleaning cycles and about 4 lines of a printer
> test page before it stops. I'm not sure what to make of this. I know
> it's an old printer but I still have several cartridges for it that I'd
> like to use if possible. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

All of this talk about the Color 600...

I have a 10+ year old Epson Stylus Color 740. Anything I try
to print results in three horizontal black bars, about 3/8" wide.

Even the printer "self-test" with the computer disconnected results
in these same three horizontal black bars.

It was fine until it suddenly started this nonsense.

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