Wow - never woulda thought of that one!! Am on my original epson stylus colour 640 which I've had for well some 6 years or more now and regularly leave it for a few weeks between jobs....??? Only ever use cloned inks too! We have some three epson printers within my extended family and similar story HOWEVER made the mistake of getting a one year old C42 cuppla years ago thinking it would be an improvement on my 640 (what with it being latest version and USB to boot) and what a mistake that was!!! Biggest heap of tripe ever connected to one of my ports!