• It never fails to amaze me just how stupid some people are when it comes to the issue of the “Service Required” message on their printers. Yes, that’s right, I just called quite a few people reading this stupid… would you like me to spell it for you?…

    The reason I say this is not because your IQ has suddenly disappeared into a vacuum, nor has your ability to discern the North Star in the middle of a hail storm disappeared… No? No!… The reason I say this is because a large proportion of you reading this article believe it is perfectly acceptable to reset a printers waste ink counter and then forget about it

    Did the ink just up and walk off?

    Erm… Hello people! Resetting a couple of bits of data in a printers memory chip does not remove the ink Read more…

    Tags: eeprom, ink pad, IPR - Ink Pad Reset, ssc

  • Canon MP830

    Canon MP830

    This was something of a unique situation for me as a power surge caused untold problems with my network but particularly bizarre was the discovery that my Canon MP830 printer had managed to turn itself into Japanese mode and presented an error… Uhoh!

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    Tags: eeprom, language reset, service mode

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