Hello, and thanks for reading my post.
I have an Epson workforce (WF-2540) printer that is refusing to print or do much of anything. Problem began last night after manually cleaning my print heads with an alcohol solution. It'd been printing very poor quality after being in storage a while and my wife needs it for school. Money is very tight at the time so I didn't want to burn through a dozen ink cartridges to get it to print clean.
I got some better but not perfect prints out of it, but after opening it up for a second cleaning I can't get it to power on without an error. It first complains about a paper jam, and after hitting ok to close that error it tells me to close the scanner (which is closed) then turn it off and consult the manual (which says nothing about this situation.
In addition to the messages on screen I am seeing flashing lights that I suspect may be an error code. The power button, Wi-Fi light and ADF (automatic document feeder) light are all flashing green in sync with each other.
It was late at night and I was exhausted so I don't have perfect recollection, but I think what I did that may have aggravated it so much was moving the print head to the unload position manually instead of using the change cartridges command from the maintenance menu.
Really hope I haven't done something to brick this thing. My wife needs it for school and we're cash strapped trying to get housing assistance to get us out of our overpriced energy hog apartment.
Any help you can provide is very much appreciated, thanks in advance.
~Keith
Edit: forgot to mention that I did try sliding the print head back into position before powering up, no luck. Also realised I left out the actual model number.
I have an Epson workforce (WF-2540) printer that is refusing to print or do much of anything. Problem began last night after manually cleaning my print heads with an alcohol solution. It'd been printing very poor quality after being in storage a while and my wife needs it for school. Money is very tight at the time so I didn't want to burn through a dozen ink cartridges to get it to print clean.
I got some better but not perfect prints out of it, but after opening it up for a second cleaning I can't get it to power on without an error. It first complains about a paper jam, and after hitting ok to close that error it tells me to close the scanner (which is closed) then turn it off and consult the manual (which says nothing about this situation.
In addition to the messages on screen I am seeing flashing lights that I suspect may be an error code. The power button, Wi-Fi light and ADF (automatic document feeder) light are all flashing green in sync with each other.
It was late at night and I was exhausted so I don't have perfect recollection, but I think what I did that may have aggravated it so much was moving the print head to the unload position manually instead of using the change cartridges command from the maintenance menu.
Really hope I haven't done something to brick this thing. My wife needs it for school and we're cash strapped trying to get housing assistance to get us out of our overpriced energy hog apartment.
Any help you can provide is very much appreciated, thanks in advance.
~Keith
Edit: forgot to mention that I did try sliding the print head back into position before powering up, no luck. Also realised I left out the actual model number.
