Printer advice needed (Are Epson printers notoriously troublesome?)
I have an Epson Stylus C82 that was a great printer when I got it. As time went by,the print quality began to get worse, so that I had to keep raising the "print quality" settings to get a decent looking result. Just recently, I tried printing, and the Black won't print at all. I changed the cartridge, and still nothing. After about five emails back and forth with Epson print support, all I got was "keep trying the HEAD CLEANING utility until it works". No dice.
I'm pretty much resigned to getting a new printer, but was wondering if Epson is known for this kind of thing, or did I just get a bad apple? If it's an Epson thing, what other inkjet printers should I look at that are known for reliability? Thanks!
I'm pretty much resigned to getting a new printer, but was wondering if Epson is known for this kind of thing, or did I just get a bad apple? If it's an Epson thing, what other inkjet printers should I look at that are known for reliability? Thanks!
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that said, I've had the least frustration from a lexmark
Canon printers are excellent and that's what I recommend to my clients for the last year or so.
I have both a HP printer and a Canon but I must say I hate the Canon drivers. The printer itself is quite nice though.
Edit: My old printer was an Epson and managed to last 7 or so years. Only reason I dumped it was because it had been relegated to a draft printer and it didn't work with OS X.
I also just bought a Brother laser, seems like a nice printer. The Epson is a photo printer, so using it for text is just painful ( and expensive ).
You get what you pay for. Ive always liked Oki's, but you can only get colour lasers now, $600 is a bit much for my home printer budget ( I only bought the brother because a new toner for my NEC cost about $20 less ).
As far as ink, everyone makes you pay through the nose for ink cartridges. Getting a printer that take individual ink cartridges instead of a single C-M-Y one will be more economical in the long run at least.
Also, there's absolutely no reason why you should pay regular price for ink cartridges. I don't even pay the inflated prices of generics at office supply stores. Rather, I go to 123 Inkjets and get my cartridges there. Why should I pay $29.95 every time when I can spend $5.95? And more importantly, the cartridges have worked just fine. No problems whatsoever.
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Forewarning, do not, absolutely do not get a Brother ink-jet printer!!! Let's just say our family is on our 6th one within 3 months. Ended up getting a Canon IP3000 and have never been happier. Only complaint is that I cant share the printer from windows to mac. I called them and they told me there was no printer driver icon that I could select in the printer setup utility.
Unless someone has a solution...?