Month: October 2019

  • Struggling With Planned Obsolescence

    A policy of producing consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so require replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply . of spare parts, and the use of non-durable materials. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/planned_obsolescence It’s been three weeks or more since my Epson Workforce 3620 started dying on me. I have the new printer…

  • Epson Workforce Failure

    I’m pretty unhappy with Epson printers right now. My printer was bought new in June 2017. The extended warranty expired in June 2019. Now it’s October 2019 and it’s non-functional. Classic situation where the warranty expires and the next day it falls apart. There is very little information available about the 0x97 error. The best…