Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Advice

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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