{"id":58684,"date":"2022-08-08T19:35:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T23:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=83c2ca5fd6a0a858a778d44fd2474c85"},"modified":"2022-08-08T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T23:35:13","slug":"citing-danger-of-ink-spills-epson-programs-end-of-life-for-some-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58684","title":{"rendered":"Citing danger of \u201cink spills\u201d Epson programs end of life for some printers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/135165\/citing-danger-of-ink-spills-epson-programs-end-of-life-for-some-printers\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Wow.  I thought my HP breaking 3rd party toner support in an update after sale was bad, but this is a new level of shitty.<\/div><blockquote><p>You have a perfectly healthy, functioning Epson inkjet printer in your home office. It&rsquo;s served you well for years and you use it frequently. Then, one day, you go to print a document and realize that the printer isn&rsquo;t working. A message on the display reads &ldquo;<em>a part inside your printer is at the end of its service life. Service is required<\/em>.&rdquo;<\/p><p>That&rsquo;s funny, you think. You hadn&rsquo;t noticed anything wrong with your printer before this message appeared. The device was working well and the quality of the printing was fine. If nothing was broken, <a href=\"https:\/\/fighttorepair.substack.com\/p\/citing-danger-of-ink-spills-epson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">why are you suddenly getting this message<\/a>? More important: how do you get rid of it so that you can continue using your printer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This should absolutely be criminal behaviour. If there was ever an industry that could do with a worldwide judicial probe and investigation, it&rsquo;s the printer makers. They employ so many clearly scammy business practices, and get away with them too.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a perfectly healthy, functioning Epson inkjet printer in your home office. It\u2019s served you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=58684\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}