Dead epson 5500?

[dan_mass2]

Dear,

 

I recently got hold of a second hand epson 5500, the printer was out of magenta

ink so I couldn't test it but the person guaranteed to me that the printer was

in working order and I also bought other stuff from her which works, so my

opinion on that person wasn't that she tried to rip me off but who knows.

After ordering a magenta cartidge last week I ran a few cleaning sessions as

soon as I received it. It might be worth noting that I had to press the operate

button twice to turn it off, the first time it seemed like it prepared to put

the printer asleep since there was some kind of activity, as soon as this

stopped, all the frontlights went blinking, I pressed the operate button another

time and it turned the printer off.

Since then printer doesn't want to work anymore, it turns on and does something

for a couple of seconds and then stops with all the frontlights flashing and it

won't respond to anything.

If I take the cartidges out before starting the printer, then it will quietly

wait until I put them in and go back to flashing all of the frontlights... Also

it does some weird things if I press the cleaning button then the operate, it

doesn't help much, however.

 

The computer runs Slackware Gnu/Linux, and the output of lsusb gives me:

 

Bus 1 Device 11: ID 04b8:0005 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus Printer

 

which means that it is being detected by the OS.

 

Even though, the printer should be able to perform a print check without being

connected to any computer, as far as I understand!

 

It didn't come with the manual so I downloaded one from the net but there are no

informations in there regarding this issue!

 

Thanks in advance

[adzy]

See if there is a version of the Epson print monitor for your OS. The utility gives more information about the printer status.