Epson printer with Ink dry!

[gothika]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 05:08:48 GMT, "James Sweet"
<jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote:

Only get a Lexmark if you want to spend enourmous amounts money on
cartridges. Their cartridge prices are ridiculous. At least HP's
cartridges are decently priced nowadays. But, really if you want a
printer that prints at least as well as the Epson's, get a Canon (I have
the i960). Their photo quality printers produce beautiful prints, they
have the least expensive running cost out of the major brands (ie HP,
Epson, Lexmark), and, they DON'T clog! I had an Epson before that which
was a piece of garbage, and before that an HP. The HP still works though
on my mother's computer, but it still costs more for ink than my Canon.
IMHO, Canon printers are the best value for your money these days.

I had a Canon that clogged *constantly*, if I didn't use it for a few weeks
the cartridge was shot. HP has been the most clog resistant for me so far, I
finally got a compact laser printer that I use for most of my printing,
clogs are a thing of the past.

It most probably wasn't a Canon, just said it on the cover.

alot of Canons, especially their photo printers, used Epson engines.

 

[exray]

gothika wrote:

It most probably wasn't a Canon, just said it on the cover.

Good answer I'll remember that one!

-BM

 

[James Sweet]

"gothika" <Vampyres@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 05:08:48 GMT, "James Sweet"
jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote:



Only get a Lexmark if you want to spend enourmous amounts money on
cartridges. Their cartridge prices are ridiculous. At least HP's
cartridges are decently priced nowadays. But, really if you want a
printer that prints at least as well as the Epson's, get a Canon (I
have
the i960). Their photo quality printers produce beautiful prints, they
have the least expensive running cost out of the major brands (ie HP,
Epson, Lexmark), and, they DON'T clog! I had an Epson before that which
was a piece of garbage, and before that an HP. The HP still works
though
on my mother's computer, but it still costs more for ink than my Canon.
IMHO, Canon printers are the best value for your money these days.

I had a Canon that clogged *constantly*, if I didn't use it for a few
weeks
the cartridge was shot. HP has been the most clog resistant for me so
far, I
finally got a compact laser printer that I use for most of my printing,
clogs are a thing of the past.

It most probably wasn't a Canon, just said it on the cover.
alot of Canons, especially their photo printers, used Epson engines.

I'm pretty sure it was a Canon, I had an Epson of around the same age at
close to the same time, the cartridges were completely different. It was a
BJC series printer, the carts looked very much like the old BJC-200 my mom
had for years, but the 200 seemed much more reliable, but then I think it
was used a lot more.

 

[gothika]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:09:40 GMT, "James Sweet"
<jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote:

"gothika" <Vampyres@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 05:08:48 GMT, "James Sweet"
jamessweet@hotmail.com> wrote:



Only get a Lexmark if you want to spend enourmous amounts money on
cartridges. Their cartridge prices are ridiculous. At least HP's
cartridges are decently priced nowadays. But, really if you want a
printer that prints at least as well as the Epson's, get a Canon (I
have
the i960). Their photo quality printers produce beautiful prints, they
have the least expensive running cost out of the major brands (ie HP,
Epson, Lexmark), and, they DON'T clog! I had an Epson before that which
was a piece of garbage, and before that an HP. The HP still works
though
on my mother's computer, but it still costs more for ink than my Canon.
IMHO, Canon printers are the best value for your money these days.

I had a Canon that clogged *constantly*, if I didn't use it for a few
weeks
the cartridge was shot. HP has been the most clog resistant for me so
far, I
finally got a compact laser printer that I use for most of my printing,
clogs are a thing of the past.

It most probably wasn't a Canon, just said it on the cover.
alot of Canons, especially their photo printers, used Epson engines.

I'm pretty sure it was a Canon, I had an Epson of around the same age at
close to the same time, the cartridges were completely different. It was a
BJC series printer, the carts looked very much like the old BJC-200 my mom
had for years, but the 200 seemed much more reliable, but then I think it
was used a lot more.

Yeah the BJC series are great little printers. I have the 1000 for

doing simple B&W and text and it just runs and runs.
I suppose even Canon pops out a lemon every now and then though I
haven't gotten one yet.
I find my cartridges, BC-02's are easy to refill and am currently
running on my 5th refill of my current cartridge with no degradation
in print quality. A new Canon cartridge runs about 15 buck, a refill
costs me about 20 cents, can't beat that.
I have a Canon 6000, BCI I believe. The one that uses separate ink
tanks that load into the print head tray. Haven't done much more than
run a few tests, but it seems to produce good image work.
With the separate tanks I'm hoping to get color pages down to pennies.
Have to see on that one.
Have to agree about HP's, cartridges just cost to much. I can refill
them but they are a hassle and you never know when the heaters will go
what with the dicey fuse setup on them.
I had several and trashed them last year.(a couple were their pricey
top end photo quality printers.)
Won't even take them in for service these days.
For what some of their cartridges run you can get a decent quality new
printer of another brand.

 

[Alex Bird]

gothika <Vampyres@nettaxi.com> wrote in message news:<07hh805p3j8kuihkhj01n6cqv17i90epr5@4ax.com>...

Yeah the BJC series are great little printers. I have the 1000 for
doing simple B&W and text and it just runs and runs.

I've got a BJ10ex here which produces lovely crisp text. It's just
-really- slow. I found it out on the street.
At the moment I'm only printing utilitarian text, so the slightly
fuzzy Epson C40 I found more recently does the job much much faster.
I would never BUY another of their printers, but if I find one where
someones' given up too easily I'll happily take it in.

I find my cartridges, BC-02's are easy to refill

They're almost designed for it. I seem to have quite a selection of
them, mainly not refilled, people are just throwing these printers
out.
I just need a faster printer they'll fit in.

Alex

 

[gothika]

On 24 Apr 2004 14:54:07 -0700, alex@redbeastie.fsnet.co.uk (Alex Bird)
wrote:

gothika <Vampyres@nettaxi.com> wrote in message news:<07hh805p3j8kuihkhj01n6cqv17i90epr5@4ax.com>...

Yeah the BJC series are great little printers. I have the 1000 for
doing simple B&W and text and it just runs and runs.

I've got a BJ10ex here which produces lovely crisp text. It's just
-really- slow. I found it out on the street.
At the moment I'm only printing utilitarian text, so the slightly
fuzzy Epson C40 I found more recently does the job much much faster.
I would never BUY another of their printers, but if I find one where
someones' given up too easily I'll happily take it in.

I find my cartridges, BC-02's are easy to refill

They're almost designed for it. I seem to have quite a selection of
them, mainly not refilled, people are just throwing these printers
out.
I just need a faster printer they'll fit in.

Alex

Try finding a BJC 1000. They seem to be fairly fast on text.
Look at yard sales and Goodwills.
My local Goodwill gets them in(bjc2000 as well) fairly often and they
usually sell them for from 5-9 dollars.

 

[Sunny]

gothika wrote:

On 19 Apr 2004 15:13:53 -0700, jerryg50@hotmail.com (Jerry Greenberg)
wrote:


There are many Epson service centers. Epson makes some very expensive
high end printers that are worth to service. The lower end consumer
printers are generaly not worth to service.

If you have an inkjet printer, you should do atleast one full page
with black and white and colour, about once every 6 to 10 days when it
is not being used. If you wait longer, the nozzles can get clogged up.
The service and replacement will be more expensive.


Jerry G.
http://www.zoom-one.com



The cleaner used by Epson service centers is Sulfynol.
They load up an empty cartridge with it and run several cleaning
cycles to purge the heads.
If you have mechanical ability you can remove the printhead and clean
it in denatured alchohol followed by distilled water.
Blank cartridges can be bought from most of the inkjet refill
companies. I used to deal with Nujet at Nujet.com.
Also MIS Associates sells blanks. www.inksupply.com.

IMHO most of the Epsons are crap, both commercial and consumer.
I have a closet full of them from the 1530 Colorado down to a Epson
Stylus pro XL. All garbage!
constant clogs or seal loss resulting in more bad prints than good
ones.(I used to have to run several pages of clean ups and test
patterns before could get one good of print.)

Am I the only one happy with my Epson consumer inkjet?

I've had an SC600 for about 5 years. It doesn't get used a lot, maybe 20
black and 15 colour cartridges since new. It mostly prints text and
photos. It's only clogged twice I can remember, despite frequently going
unused for a week or three - and both times a single cleaning cycle
resolved the problem.

I recently compared a new photo print to one made when the printer was
new. The old one has faded somewhat, but is a little sharper. The new
one is quite good, but print quality has apparently declined slightly
over time. I don't have the same photo paper I used back then, which may
account for some variation.

Based on that I'd buy another Epson - or is the SC600 the only good
inkjet they made?

Sunny

 

[exray]

Sunny wrote:

Am I the only one happy with my Epson consumer inkjet?

I've had an SC600 for about 5 years. It doesn't get used a lot, maybe 20
black and 15 colour cartridges since new. It mostly prints text and
photos. It's only clogged twice I can remember

Lucky devil, you.

Based on that I'd buy another Epson - or is the SC600 the only good
inkjet they made?

I like Epsons also... for the price. I just bought 5 each color+b/w
generic ink cartrdiges for less than 20 buks on ebay. I figure 1 or 2
are slated for "cleaning" but at the end of the day my 740 makes very
nice prints.
I wouldn't be near as happy if every fuggup cost me a $35 cartridge.
I've been the HP route before and the fuggup rate was the same. I print
'almost' daily so the Epson works for me. its easy to see why it
wouldn't be so friendly to more or less demanding users.
Of course the prevailing sentiment has to include current models. We
don't necessarily know how good/bad they are until they have a few years
on them.
For us regular schmucks who print out a letter or parts list ever so
often we have to consider our demands aren't the same as the "good
printer" folks who are printing out 200 airline tickets per day and that
type of thing. If a $39 machine could do the same job then there
wouldn't be $200 machines, not to mention $2000 machines.

-Bill M

 

[Rick]

"Sunny" <sunny@nospam.net> wrote in message news:RT_jc.7392$k%.254233@news20.bellglobal.com...

Based on that I'd buy another Epson - or is the SC600 the only good
inkjet they made?

Hardly. We just retired a SC800 after almost five years of
service. (Actually we didn't retire it, since it still works fine,
we just demoted it in lieu of a newer model. And speaking
of newer models, the R800 that replaced it is nothing short
of breathtaking.

Sure, the SC800 clogged once in a while, but it was never
anything that a 2 minute head cleaning didn't fix. Big deal.

Rick