Swanicyouth
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So, can I ask why ink for a $100 printer costs $90? I can count on one hand how many times I've used my Epson printer. It's about 3 years old. It never works. Every time I want to print one page it's a fiasco.
Replaced all the ink a year or so ago. About 6 mos ago I went to print something out and it comes out looking like it was printed on the first printer ever made. All the text is blue-black and there are skip marks all over it.
Last time I replaced the cartridges and it printed like crap I was PO'd. Spent like 90 bucks to replace 4 cartridges and the paper comes out looking like it's from a 1978 mimeograph machine.
Six months ago I research this. I read on the Internet the "print head" (not cartridges) can dry out causing bad printing and you have to drip water on them with a syringe. I do this 6 months ago. Printer prints better - but ain't great. Now I have to keep a syringe full of water next to my computer in case I want to print something that looks half way decent.
This is my water syringe:
Now I TRY to print my W2 today (one page). This turns into a multi hour project. It says the "cyan is low", but I've printed like a total of 5 pages since replacing all the cartridges like a year ago, none of those 5 pages looked right BTW. If I spend 90 bills to replace those 4 cartridges again (because now suddenly they all are reading "low") - who knows if this damn thing will work???
So I'm supposed to be able to "temporary print in grayscale" according to Epson if one of the color cartridges is low. Except, the box that has to be checked to do this doesn't exist in the Epson software - it's now a drop down menu. OK, so figure that out I think.
Hit print. Nothing happens. Still doesn't work. You know the silence when your waiting for something to print and staring at the printer - but nothing is happening??? Bad. I feel like an idiot. It's still telling be to "replace cyan" - but now I've enabled temporary B&W printing and am printing in greyscale. Nothing.
Printer prompts me to acknowledge an error. So I'm thinking if I acknowledge the error it will finally print??? No. It takes me to another screen where the only choices are "cancel print" or "replace cartridge".
The end. Printer was ripped out of the wall and thrown into my dumpster. Now it's time to uninstall the printer in OSX. You would think this would be easy right? You would think the Epson software would have an uninstall wizzard right? No. You have to manually go into the the hard drive to delete the Epson stuff (drivers?). Then you have to go into "Printers and Scanners" to delete the printer. After that, you have to go into some other nonsense to delete something else. Spend a good hour researching how to do this and doing it so I have no trace of Epson anything on my computer. Now I hate that company.
Headed to Best Buy to buy a Canon (had good luck with Canon in the past). Friend texts me on the way and tells me how much he hates his Canon and literally has contemplated smashing it with a hammer, but his wife won't let him. Then he says the situation is even more annoying - because it just won't break for good. Every time you use it it's an endless cycle of reconnecting it to WiFi, clearing the print que multiple times, and restarting the computer and printer. Now I'm afraid of Cannon.
Ended up with an HP on friends advice he had good luck with one. Setup was actually a breeze and it instantly connected to the WiFi network. Also can print from my iPad pad with it - setup was instantaneous for that as well. It only has 2 cartridges: color and black. So far so good - we will see.
Replaced all the ink a year or so ago. About 6 mos ago I went to print something out and it comes out looking like it was printed on the first printer ever made. All the text is blue-black and there are skip marks all over it.
Last time I replaced the cartridges and it printed like crap I was PO'd. Spent like 90 bucks to replace 4 cartridges and the paper comes out looking like it's from a 1978 mimeograph machine.
Six months ago I research this. I read on the Internet the "print head" (not cartridges) can dry out causing bad printing and you have to drip water on them with a syringe. I do this 6 months ago. Printer prints better - but ain't great. Now I have to keep a syringe full of water next to my computer in case I want to print something that looks half way decent.
This is my water syringe:
Now I TRY to print my W2 today (one page). This turns into a multi hour project. It says the "cyan is low", but I've printed like a total of 5 pages since replacing all the cartridges like a year ago, none of those 5 pages looked right BTW. If I spend 90 bills to replace those 4 cartridges again (because now suddenly they all are reading "low") - who knows if this damn thing will work???
So I'm supposed to be able to "temporary print in grayscale" according to Epson if one of the color cartridges is low. Except, the box that has to be checked to do this doesn't exist in the Epson software - it's now a drop down menu. OK, so figure that out I think.
Hit print. Nothing happens. Still doesn't work. You know the silence when your waiting for something to print and staring at the printer - but nothing is happening??? Bad. I feel like an idiot. It's still telling be to "replace cyan" - but now I've enabled temporary B&W printing and am printing in greyscale. Nothing.
Printer prompts me to acknowledge an error. So I'm thinking if I acknowledge the error it will finally print??? No. It takes me to another screen where the only choices are "cancel print" or "replace cartridge".
The end. Printer was ripped out of the wall and thrown into my dumpster. Now it's time to uninstall the printer in OSX. You would think this would be easy right? You would think the Epson software would have an uninstall wizzard right? No. You have to manually go into the the hard drive to delete the Epson stuff (drivers?). Then you have to go into "Printers and Scanners" to delete the printer. After that, you have to go into some other nonsense to delete something else. Spend a good hour researching how to do this and doing it so I have no trace of Epson anything on my computer. Now I hate that company.
Headed to Best Buy to buy a Canon (had good luck with Canon in the past). Friend texts me on the way and tells me how much he hates his Canon and literally has contemplated smashing it with a hammer, but his wife won't let him. Then he says the situation is even more annoying - because it just won't break for good. Every time you use it it's an endless cycle of reconnecting it to WiFi, clearing the print que multiple times, and restarting the computer and printer. Now I'm afraid of Cannon.
Ended up with an HP on friends advice he had good luck with one. Setup was actually a breeze and it instantly connected to the WiFi network. Also can print from my iPad pad with it - setup was instantaneous for that as well. It only has 2 cartridges: color and black. So far so good - we will see.
Gave up on inkjets 10 years ago. I replaced the toner in mine probably 5 or 6 years ago, and it still prints perfect every time.
