I have a C60 that I use once a week. I use only Epson cartridges and
it plugs up at least every other time I use it. We have used HPs,
Canons and Lexmarks in the past, none of which plug up. Chuck
Epson printer's are pure crap, at least the one's I've wasted my money
on.
That includes the following models:
Epson Stylus Pro and Pro XL.
Epson Stylus 1500 and the later "Colorado" model.
Epson 800
I have a storage locker full of Epson crap that we had to sideline
because of the constant problems associated with these printers,
namely clogging and loss of seal integrity on the ink tanks.
I'd even managed to burn out the pezio heads on a couple of them
running the endless cleaning cycles Epson insists would "fix" the
banding problems.
We run a pro print shop and in the mid to late 90's saw inexpensive
inkjets as a solution for "spot color" work in our smaller print
runs(offset). Also as a low cost proof system on our bigger four color
work.
The Epson's failed miserably, they were neither reliable enough to
cost effective and Epson never came out with any pantone ink
cartridges that were work a fck.
We finally went with a couple of mid level plotters from Encad and
haven't had any problems since.
We've also purchased a few Lexmark printers as well as two of Canon's
better offerings that have done a bangup job for our low-end work.
I can't emphasize enough that one should stay away from anything
Epson.
I'm only hanging on to the pile of Epson crap that I have because I've
invested thousands into it and hope that someday some third party will
offer upgrade kits to replace the head and ink supply system so that
these units will actually print something besides test sheets and
cleanup patterns.
I had an original epson stylus color, with the front loading paper tray, one
of the best printers I ever had lasted about 6 years, never clogged, never
jammed, ink lasted fairly long time. I saw friends with color II's garbage,
and the rest of the range since then I consider garbage. One thing about
inkjet printers is you really should print something with back and color
about once a week, even if its just a test picture or some black and color
squares in paint. I curently own a HP 960 runs ok was fairly cheap even if
the ink costs a lot. But I dont use it that much, I have a brother HL 1650
laser printer for the bulk of my printing.
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