"Jeroni Paul" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
But
when you leave an Epson on, it just leaves the heads out where it
finished,

This is not correct, all Epsons I know park the head in its sealed
sleep place a few seconds after printing.

The fact that it sometimes clogs up while printing is not because it
actually clogs but because there is insufficient ink pulled from the
cartridge or air drops inside. This could indicate a weak or jammed
pump or because you don't turn it off doesn't make enough pumping
cycles to bring new ink to the reservoir inside its printing heads.
Turning off overnight would be a good idea.

Epsons are a good design but they fail on their princes, they should
sell their ink cheaper. I have an old Epson Stylus color Pro and am
very happy with it, cheap and big cartridges (the compatible ones of
course) and never clogs.


I was actually told that the heads didn't park on the Epsons by someone who
was involved a lot with the sales / service side, and as I don't believe
that I ever heard either of the two Epsons that I owned do anything after
they finished printing, I just accepted what he said, and took it to be a
valid reason for the continual problems that I had, right from day one, on
both of them. You might ask why, having had problems with the first one, I
went and bought another. Weeelll.... you see there was this very good
salesman who assured me that the design had moved on since the first one I
had, and the latest model had all sorts of bells and whistles and really did
represent exceptionally good value for money especially as they had them on
offer and well, stupidly, out came my wallet ... I really had gone to the
shop with every intention of buying an HP, but a nice new model really
couldn't be as bad as the previous one, could it ?

Within a couple of weeks, I was regretting ever having heard of Epson. I
had much e-mail exchange with the monkeys that they have trained as
technical advisors, and got nowhere. They don't even seem to understand the
most basic fundamentals of problems with their products, and just trot out
form replies. Anyway, a few weeks back, I got really mad on the back of yet
another head clog, and went and bought an HP. I use it in exactly the same
way - that is it's powered and in standby 24/7. So far, it hasn't missed a
beat. Whether or not it is actually any different from the Epson in what it
does after it's finished printing, I don't know for sure, but some minutes
after a print is finished, there is a brief flurry of internal mechanical
activity which sure *sounds* like the heads parking, before the LCD goes
dark, and it all goes to sleep. I never heard either of the Epsons do this.
Whatever, anyway, on the HP the standby mode does not cause a problem. On
the Epson, it does.

The print quality is superior to the Epson. The ink useage is superior. The
cartridges are cheaper, and best of the lot, it's a network printer. The
software that came with it, particularly that for controlling the scanner,
is better in every way. I am really glad that I went back to an HP. I will
never EVER buy an Epson again.

Arfa