Watchdog investigates Epson printers

I have had two Epson printers, an R800 (believe it was that) and an R1800.

I liked them both, but....

In the case of the first one the main board fried, after moderate use, and it would have been more expensive to replace it than buy a new printer.

The R1800 developed the "pads full of ink" lockup.  It took it in for repair, paid $100+.  They reset it, and said, "Oh, by the way there really wasn't much ink on the pads.  It is determined by a counter."

But it started giving error codes and now is locked up again.

In both cases I probably had only a few hundred prints on each machine.

What a rip off!!!

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JohnE
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