Lee Beck
Getting Fingers Dirty
- Joined
- Feb 13, 2016
- Messages
- 33
- Reaction score
- 10
- Points
- 41
- Location
- Hillsborough, NC
- Printer Model
- Epson 640 and WF-2750
I've had both Epson and HP printers. My most recent is an Epson 610 and 640 printers. After trying after-market ink for the 610 and having problems, I decided to purchase another 610 for common jobs given that I already had lots of after-market ink. Found that the 610 is no longer made, so I bought a 640 (I need DVD printing capability). It of course uses different ink, so I decided to use my 610 for printing just text and other non-critical items and save the 640 for stuff that I really want to look good. This reasoning worked for a while but tonight the 610 was printing terribly. The print test pattern looked bad so I did a nozzle cleaning and found that the blk cartage was low.
Long story - but I wound up replacing blk, photo blk, yel, and cyan and doing nozzle checks and head cleaning several times. I now have practically full capacity for all colors and still get unreadable print. The 640 still prints okay. I recently replaced the initial cartridges on the 640 with high capacity OEM replacements - at about the same cost as the printer.
I refuse to continue to use Epson after the 640 dies. Is there a more reliable ink-jet, DVD printable printer on the market?
Long story - but I wound up replacing blk, photo blk, yel, and cyan and doing nozzle checks and head cleaning several times. I now have practically full capacity for all colors and still get unreadable print. The 640 still prints okay. I recently replaced the initial cartridges on the 640 with high capacity OEM replacements - at about the same cost as the printer.
I refuse to continue to use Epson after the 640 dies. Is there a more reliable ink-jet, DVD printable printer on the market?