Jeroni Paul wrote:
On 22 Jul, 11:39, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
The HPs seem to have a proper 'sleep' mode where
the heads 'park' over the seal, as it goes to sleep. The Epsons appear to
just 'stop' with the heads where they were last left.

This is not true, all Epsons I have seen and repaired park the heads a
few seconds after the last print job.

The fact that
colours cannot be cleaned individually, is a royal pain in the arse, and
leads to huge ink wastage.

Yes, yet old style Epsons (like Epson stylus 500, color II, stylus
pro, etc) allowed to clean B/W and color separately and they really
did separately, those old printers were very realiable if used with
proper inks and almost never clogged. This started to decay after the
stylus color 400 when they redesigned all and made b/w and color
injectors the same block. Yet, used carefully and with properly
selected inks that do not clog easily they work fine. I have been
using refills for all my Epsons and it turns out a lot cheaper than
HPs and works great.

I have found Epson printers are very sensitive to their environment,
place it near something warm (for example on top of a PC) or where air
circulation is likely and you are going to face lots of clogs. On the
other hand if you place in a cool (ambient temp) non ventilated place
you can have it turned off for months and it will work straight.

Yep. I've found the same thing.

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