[Ti] Help, epson printers or is it me!!!!!

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Hello,

In my experience with Epson printers, the clogging occurs because of
irregular use.  At least turning it on/off daily (which I admit not doing,
because I usually let it remain on) will put it through its startup/shutdown
cycle, which includes cleaning the print heads.

You can purchase cleaning cartridges, though I have yet to use one...

Finally, though the labor cost exceeds the price of buying a whole new unit,
it isn't too challenging to disassemble the unit to the point where you can
extract the print head, and soak that thing in ammonia (the way you may
remember soaking the fine tips of technical pens).  At least this was my
experience with a Stylus 740.  I'll probably need to do this with my Photo
750 soon too.

Epson would have you believe (and it may be true) that the use of 3rd party
inks kills the life of the machine, but I say, these inks are SO CHEAP, and
still damn good-looking, that even if it cuts a couple years off its life,
the savings would be so monumental that you could have bought 15 or 20 more
machines during that time.  The price difference between Epson brand and 3rd
party is staggering. (see tylermartin.com)

Bill Planey 


On 3/8/04 00:25, "Dr. Trevor J. Hutley" <hutley at geneva-link.ch> wrote:

> At 11:59 -0500 7/3/04, Bill Barton wrote:
>> I am just really frustrated today, I am looking at two epson
>> printers a 8x10 and a larger carriage one for up to 13x19 inch
>> prints and both are dead. I seem to only get two years out of these
>> epson printers before the print heads go bad, or there is a major
>> problem with the main circuit board. Is it me, or is that all I
>> should really expect out of them. The smaller printer I can replace
>> for not much money and just ordered a HP 7660 to try my luck there.
>> But the larger printer cost 250.00 for the repair last time and I
>> don't want to spend it again.
> 
> Bill - I bought an Epson Colour Stylus 800 printer in 1997 to use
> with my Powerbook 3400c, and until late last year it was going very
> well, but then I lost the colour printing.
> Probably something to do with clogging of the colour head.
> I could not fix it myself.
> 
> I thought that this was a fair 'life' for a normal printer.
> 
> I was very happy with the Epson printer quality.
> 
> The problem that the failure caused me, is that there is no longer an
> Epson printer that will connect to the printer port on my 3400c which
> my wife uses at home.  So she can no longer print anything out.
> All printers now are USB.
> 
> I also have an HP 950C inkjet printer which is also very good but the
> cartridges are just way too expensive.
> 
> Right now I have an HP Laserjet 1300 which is good quality, fast but only B&W.
> 
> I will certainly get another Epson printer, for colour work, probably soon.
> 
> Trevor
> 
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