Oh dear, ...and thank you Newbie Coder, Jim, Brian A. and Uncle Grumpy
I'll try to further explain. First off, I should mention that I've always
used Epson - currently having a C82 and R300 , and there's a 880 ? I think
it is, in the house. I've always liked them, though, I've never used an
Epson printer excessively !
I haven't yet seen Jenny's PC, ...when I do, I'll post here what the exact
error message/problem is/was, (Jenny is the one who on the phone told me
that her D68 had died). From what I could decipher during that phone call,
she's getting a message containing something about about the "print-head or
printer/print-head life-expectency." I know that she does a lot of "card -
crafting" her printer gets VERY heavy use !
....btw her PC is not connected to the web.
QUITE a few years ago, a friend in Bridgwater - Shaun K. used his Epson
printer VERY heavily and it stopped working within it's 12 months
manufacturers warranty - chucking up a error message, (and I now so wish I'd
recorded the details!), and when he informed Epson, they as good as told him
that, they knew what the problem was i.e. something along the lines of "he
had exceeded the printers' life-expectancy", and immediately sent him a new
replacement printer with no more questions asked.
I did quite a bit of Googling before posting this OP, expecting to find lots
of pages on how to overcome this problem but didn't find very much, ...so
perhaps it's a myth ...but, I'm sure that I've read items in the distant
past about "no. of pages life expectancy" being firmwared into the things !!
regards, Richard