Printer recommendation requested
I don't know for how long my trusty Epson stylus photo 925 has been serving me well, but it is a good few years. The printer has only been fitted with one set of genuine Epson cartridges - the ones it was supplied with! In all those years it has performed perfectly on dirt cheap third party cartridges. It still prints perfectly but its paper handling mechanism is now getting so worn that it is rare for it to only feed one sheet into itself to print on. Its retirement is urgently called for but with what should I replace it?
I have an Epson scanner for scanning slides, negatives and ordinary printed sheets with which my printer interfaces perfectly, which suggests I should get another Epson, but which one? We all know that printer manufacturers are getting cleverer and cleverer these days in preventing people like me from using third party ink cartridges. The latest trick appears to be to allow the user to use a few of these cartridges and then cause the printer to lock up, requiring an expensive manufacturer's re-set with a warning that in future only manufacturers cartridges should be used. That is something that I don't want! I also rule out HP machines because of their very expensive replacement print heads containing ink. I merely want a printer that is not necessarily really fast, will definitely use cheap thrid party cartridges, can do a superb job printing out photos and willl interface with my Epson scanner - though this latter may be very simple, provided the Epson scanner software will handle the new printer driver.
My 925 cost me over £300 to buy in the days that this was a competitive price for ink jet photo printers, so I consider that I paid for the printer then and my concience is clear that Mr. Epson received no more from me in the form of his overpriced ink cartridges.
Your recommendations as to what I should replace it with would be much appreciated.
P.P.