Epson Photo Printer questions

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DarkCyber

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I've had a Canon S900 for several years and it has done an awesome job on photo printing. I was at Sam's Club yesterday and saw an Epson R200 for $72.00...so I bought one to put on one of my other pc's.

Now my question. I've been reading through some of my pc magazines and seeing some stuff listed about the Epson printers having nozzle problems.

Is the nozzle issue some big problem with Epson printers? And exactly what kind of problem do they have?

Thanks!
 
Epson printers have a tendency toward clogged print heads due to dried or drying ink in the nozzles. Some of their printers are much worse in this regard than others. I have a 1270 that has had maybe 3-4 clogs in all the time I've owned it (5 years?) and one of those was caused by a new cartridge.

You can find articles on the Web dealing with unclogging an Epson. Some of the more popular (cheaper) methods involve Windex or Vodka. A more expensive fix is a cleaning cartridge. A good preventive maintenence system is to do a nozzle check at least once a week (an inexpensive way to keep the ink flowing), and ALWAYS before printing a large format image. Nothing worse than seeing an 11x17 with that nasty banding.
 
Thanks for the information! If I had known this prior to purchasing this R200..I never would have even considered an Epson brand printer. I've owned HP printers and that Canon S900 and never once had any kind of problem like this.

Sounds like Epson needs to either work on fixing their ink or cartridges or something.
 
I have an EPX 785 photo printer, makes beautiful photos but if I dont print for a couple of weeks I have to go through two or three nozzle cleaning procedures to get the colors working again. The cleanings seem to waste a lot of ink too.

But...it's hard to beat the pictures the thing makes.
 
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