"For a start, Epson insists that it must only be run from batteries" I don't think that's correct. I had one handed down to me in the early nineties. Afair (

"For a start, Epson insists that it must only be run from batteries" I don't think that's correct. I had one handed down to me in the early nineties. Afair (well, it's a long time), I operated it w/o batteries at all.