feisty to gutsy: system-config-printer's "Clean Print Heads" damaged my printer?

[L. Schmidt]

Hello,

today, I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 from Feisty Fawn.  After I removed
gnome-cups-manager—it's not needed anymore, no?—, I started up
system-config-printer and tweaked a few settings for better results on
my EPSON Stylus C62; I then ran "Clean Print Heads": the printer, as
always, made some noise (starting up–positioning the print heads or 
something),
but after one or two seconds, it just stopped doing anything;
now both the green *and* red LEDs blink all the time.
When turning it on, it still gets detected (pops up in /var/log/messages),
but cannot be used.  It does not work on windows anymore, too.

Any chance to bring it back to live?  I cleaned heads its lots of times 
with
“escputil” and “mtink”, though something like this never happened to me.

Thanks

Leonard

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