Re: Use non-Epson cartridges and die!
- From: Arthur Entlich <e-printerhelp@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:58:50 GMT
Davy is understandably upset with the experience he had with his two low end Epson printers.
However, he makes an assumption that because he came across two bad printers, probably both from the same manufacturing run, that he can generalize to all printers made by a company and this is a tremendous oversimplification, and basically wrong.
Further his experience is tainted by some very poor customer service he received from Epson UK or their contracted service depot.
The whole incident ends up being over generalized, and therefore is unfairly lopsided.
Literally millions of people use Epson printers in all sorts of consumer and commercial applications and do so for a reason. They also have access to Canon, Lexmark, HP and other brands, but continue to choose Epson, because of the ink characteristics, the color management and the reliability of the printers.
I am not promoting Epson printers. They do require extra maintenance to produce consistently good prints. To some, the extra effort is well worth it, while others are more accepting of printers with other limitations to have a printer with less upkeep.
It's up to you.
Art
Davy wrote:
My Epson lasted about 6 months it clogged on the 2nd day, the
replacement, well that lasted a little longer, that clogged on the
4th day and that failed.
All that with genuine Epson ink, so how come since we don't grow icicles and it's not used next to an oven in a bakery did one post suggest's it's the owner's fault?
They both ended up in the trash, I went and bought a Canon this is over 3 months old and not one single head clog.
With the Epson's I had to check each print whther text or photo with the Canon I don't have to, I get 100% reliability to date and with each print, plus the fact its a darn sight more economical and don't waste ink.
What Epson do not tell you is that you must never do more than 6 continuous cleans as this will cause head damage - so say Epson Technical.
Also the reason for the chipped tank is not to fleece people out of their hard earned cash, but to leave a substantial amount of ink in the head chambers, Epson says ink bubbles, I take this to mean an 'air lock' will damage the heads.
PC World claims that there is 20% of ink left in a C84 when the tank say's empty....!
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114590,00.asp
Here's a snip-;
Quote-: The Stylus C84 on average stopped printing with 20 percent of the ink left in the cartridge, while the Canon i850 stopped printing with 10 percent of the ink left. Canon says that it generally strives to leave 6 percent of a cartridge's ink as a safety margin. Epson doesn't disclose its target residual ink levels, nor will the company comment on why so high a proportion of the total ink is unused when printing stops. The other printers we tested gave low-ink messages but never stopped functioning (see the test report for details). Unquote:
"Don't get clogged with an Epson"
Davy
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