In haste. a rapid rant. A good while back I got a fairly expensive Epson 5400 Printer scanner - the build quality was very good. Heads soon blocked up.
Long story short...ran a blog on here about trying to clean my heads with window cleaner. (really melts the ink) My cheeks were beginning to look like a bassoon player's when the phone rang. It was Epson. They offered to take back my 18 month old machine and fix it. They didn't ...they gave me a 6400.
Goody, thinks I .
says I,when I see the size of the ink on the new one. Minute...probably half the capacity. It fails. Get a new one. Thanks Epson. It fails. Get a 6600. AND A 6400. Ask, several times, but never get a rtn No. for the 6400. put in original box and forget it..
Just taken it out. It goes! Moral o t s leave broken printers in the dark for two years.
New one too expensive to run. Just cleaning its own heads before printing, or sometimes a cleaning procedure, has eaten - and I'm being serious here - about 90% of the ink.
four returns got me a stockpile of ink however...but now, Ive just got some clone ink.
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.
You may well be right, bloke on ink support told me to reset my printer by standing like a lemon with finger on the ON/Off button - while unplugged - for one minute. It worked, but I had to do it again a week later. Time will tell.
In the meantime, I've got a Kodak thing. Much vaunted on Your Fired etc., Heads block if you don't use it frequently. New heads free of charge. they block. New, new ones. Okay so far, but...wait for it...if they block, I get a new printer.
Oh, I got a Canon with the used computer I've just got. That makes five, with the laser. Pssssst....anyone want a good printer, cheap?
All have scanners, but all I want is a printer that holds enough ink....well, as much as they used to hold. And just bl
y well prints.