Epson salted

I think it is in a Kipling book that there is a story about an elephant that has an iron ring on its foot after escaping captivity and it struggles month after month with all its might in its obsession to free itself of the loathsome object and eventually gives up, then one day many years later a little baby elephant notices it and plucks it off with ease as the old ring has rusted nearly right through.
A while back our printer suddenly packed its trunk and displayed a message saying it wanted its internals serviced. I made a few sallies into the world of printer maintenance on the web, but after trying this and that we wrapped it in a cloth and left it in a darkened room to moulder having found that the maitenance cost was about half the price of a printer.
Today I ventured once more onto the webby waves and found a suggestion about button combinations being pushed when turning on the printer rather than any special utility application, so I experimented with their suggestions with no luck, then tried obvious combinations eventually pushing all three big buttons on the right and ON, and there it was "Ink waste counter restart complete". Of course it has left me rather tired, especially as I was tying myself in knots on the floor at the same time, but it was nice to defeat Epson in some small way.
It goes to show that there is a time and place for everything, it just might not always be now, so it's best to get on with other things until the time is right.

Pencil sketch