I whole heartedly agree. Been there done that and wasted countless
hours - those printers are landfill material!

gothika wrote You need to toss both of these
printers out.
Epson is junk.
I havve a closet full of Epson printers that gave constant problems
inregards to clooging and loss of ink prime.
I never had any luck with refilling the cartridges either, even when I
replaced the cartridge seals with new ones.