Been there (sigh).
One useful bit of advice I was given: don't mess with the "head cleaning" ritual which wastes all the ink colours. Just prepare a graphic of a page that is all-yellow, another all-cyan, and another all-magenta. Print the relevant one till the colours work correctly.
Anyway, I got through two sets of cartridges last month trying to get the pesky Epson to work (cost = more than I paid for the thing). So I scrapped it and bought a Canon IP4000. That's a very impressive printer, which works very well with my desktop machine.
But it won't work with the laptop - all sorts of wondrous error messages come from the install routine. Canon say "Not our fault, your Windows is corrupted". It's odd that everything else about the laptop works perfectly, including printing to the HP laser that I use for B&W, and the Epson before it died.
I decided I can't win, so I e-mail colour stuff from the laptop to the desktop and print it from there.