A friend gave up her Epson RX500 and bought a Canon. She gave me the RX500. Well, it was left in the trunk of my car for a few weeks before I took it inside and powered it up to give it a check. It came with an installation CD. I installed it pretty much with everything set to default. In the middle of the installation it asked that I plug in the USB cable then turn the power on.
This was when everything turned ugly. Believe me, it took me a good 10 minutes or longer to find where the USB socket is. It can't be real!!! But I even turned the printer upside down many times and still I could not fint it anywhere. I almost decided to throw it out of the window. What a piece of crap. I know it has to be somewhere. I have no manuals. Even I have them I don't believe I have to read the manual in order to find where to plug in the USB cable. I had to go online to Epson's support site. Downloaded a pdf document. Read it and sure there was a paragraph that said to plug in the USB cable. But it says to remove a yellow sticker. There was no yellow sticker!!! Guess what? There was one before but not now. I still saw no socket for the USB cable. I had to read the document backward. Then it says open the scanner. Jesus Chris! The connection is inside. You have to open the scanner!!! OK, I opened the scanner. Still there is no connector.
Well, it took me a few minutes from there and I found it. What a great printer!!!. I have to wonder why they did not have the power socket in there too. I must be so dumb that I had such a good time to just to find how to make a USB connection to this printer.
Everything went OK then but of course except that there is a clog in the black or it would have been too good to be true that my friend wanted to give it to the dump. The nozzle check shows 3 lines missing at the bottom of the ladder on the nozzle check print. All other colors seem fine. Epson is so famous for good reason on this clogging problem. I fired up a few cleaning cycles and sure no improvement was visible. I printed a few large full page of purge image and there were full of banding. At that point I knew I had to stop wasting ink. I shut it off. I wasn't in a good mood after spending a good 10 - 15 minutes to find the USB connector. I did not want to deal with the clogging problem immediately. The RX500 might really end up outside of the window. The cartridges were almost new. The ink level had gone down from about 90% to 80%.
Is there any way I can unclog it without wasting most of the ink from a new set of cartridges? I also realized that RX500 has no fax on it. It is a multifunction photo printer. The scanner should be a very good one, right? I will find out soon if this is true.
This was when everything turned ugly. Believe me, it took me a good 10 minutes or longer to find where the USB socket is. It can't be real!!! But I even turned the printer upside down many times and still I could not fint it anywhere. I almost decided to throw it out of the window. What a piece of crap. I know it has to be somewhere. I have no manuals. Even I have them I don't believe I have to read the manual in order to find where to plug in the USB cable. I had to go online to Epson's support site. Downloaded a pdf document. Read it and sure there was a paragraph that said to plug in the USB cable. But it says to remove a yellow sticker. There was no yellow sticker!!! Guess what? There was one before but not now. I still saw no socket for the USB cable. I had to read the document backward. Then it says open the scanner. Jesus Chris! The connection is inside. You have to open the scanner!!! OK, I opened the scanner. Still there is no connector.
Well, it took me a few minutes from there and I found it. What a great printer!!!. I have to wonder why they did not have the power socket in there too. I must be so dumb that I had such a good time to just to find how to make a USB connection to this printer.
Everything went OK then but of course except that there is a clog in the black or it would have been too good to be true that my friend wanted to give it to the dump. The nozzle check shows 3 lines missing at the bottom of the ladder on the nozzle check print. All other colors seem fine. Epson is so famous for good reason on this clogging problem. I fired up a few cleaning cycles and sure no improvement was visible. I printed a few large full page of purge image and there were full of banding. At that point I knew I had to stop wasting ink. I shut it off. I wasn't in a good mood after spending a good 10 - 15 minutes to find the USB connector. I did not want to deal with the clogging problem immediately. The RX500 might really end up outside of the window. The cartridges were almost new. The ink level had gone down from about 90% to 80%.
Is there any way I can unclog it without wasting most of the ink from a new set of cartridges? I also realized that RX500 has no fax on it. It is a multifunction photo printer. The scanner should be a very good one, right? I will find out soon if this is true.