Parts inside my printer are at the end of their service life.

parts inside your printer indicates that you need to change the ink pad of your printer. for every epson printer they have a cycle of i think around 100,000 revolutions in the gears and then when it reaches its peak it automatically shuts down on the firmware thus indicating parts inside your printer is at the end of its service life... but it can be resetted back to its state by downloading the Ink Pad Reset counter.

you can download the INK PAD RESET COUNTER through this link http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml..... install it then i suggest using the icon which will appear on the lower right hand side.

it represents a small printer. the link will instruct you on how to use it... have fun.

if it does not work then another mechanical issue might have occurred....

The message that you received indicates the ink pad absorbers are full and prevents the printer from running because unchecked it would leak ink everywhere including outside of the unit. To fix this you need to replace the pads with new ones and reset the counters to let machine know you have changed the pads. On top of that you must download a utility program for your model that will allow you to set up the counters so the printer will run. I strongly recommend replacing your printer especially when it is a refurbished item, even Epson feels it is better to replace.

If the error message reads parts inside the printer are at the end of its service life, and both red lights flashing alternately while power light is off, it is an indication that the waste ink pad is full and needs to be replaced. This part is not user replaceable so you need to take in the printer for service.

Parts inside your printer are at the end of their service life. See your printer documentation.

Your printer needs to be reset, the part that is near the end of their service life is the waste ink pad, it means that it is almost full, when it's full your printer will stop printing.

This message refers to the waste ink pad in the printer, when this is 'full' this message appears, You can reset this yourself by downloading the right software which you can download from here:
http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml
I have also checked the C46 is supported

On your machine it means that the ink absorbers are full. There are around 9 of them. You will need a shop to replace them and then reset the counters.

Reset the waste ink counter!
Assuming you have completed your modification you can reset your printers waste counter using this method (I did this and it worked on the CX6400) can't guarantee it works on all)
1. You will see big button on your printer like power on (this is on the left
2. side), black & white photocopy, color photocopy, and then the stop button (these are on the right side).
3. first turn off your printer
4. push the b/w + color + stop buttons together and hold
5. push the power on button and hold (so you'll now be holding down 4 buttons together)
6. Don't release all the buttons until you see the light indicator is blinking and then a message display on the lcd
7. release all the buttons
8. push the color button (once)
9. turn off the printer
10. turn it on again
After this one may need to reload the printer driver and locate the printer!

if you put this in google ssc download it and this will reset your printer hope this helps

You need to reset the waste tank or the counter to resolve the problem.

If your C42 blinks both lights and displays a message to the effect that parts inside your printer have reached the end of their servicable life, then you probably need to clean the waste ink pads. These pads collect waste ink whenever the printer cleans it's heads. The printer counts how much ink it thinks is in the waste ink pads and refuses to print when they are full.

To verify whether this is the case, download the "SSC Service Utility" from http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml.

http://www.ianwillis.co.uk/c42/