Hi Mau,
Thanks for the few words of encouragement I been using printers since the days when we had to put a shovel of coal in the back...and have been through a range of them from the 9 pin, 24 pin and bubble jet days, I even had a printer with my Dead Flesh Keys spectrum!!!
Notorious for their high price inks "previously" were HP and lexmark, I had a cannon bubble jet which gave very good service and eventually graduated on to an epson stylus 440 which gave very good service for an amazing (in my view) number of years and I could use any cartridge I liked with it too including compatiables.
In an urge to reduce space and upgrading to better print quality as I love photography, I thought a combo scanner printer would be the answer and bought the epson 4400 dx. The photo quality was good, but a very very slow print rate, scanning easy enough but again very slow, and the software package with it not too bad. The individual inks idea seemed on the face of it a good idea as well.
However changing the blessed cartridges even from the word go was a hit and miss affair , two ways of doing it changing before empty or when empty and..... worst of all the gumph about surface techonolgy ink application ....cobblers and reduced cost I worked out at my usual rate of use even in the short time I had the blessed thing it was costing me three times more that I'd paid previously, invidual cartridges or no......plus compatiables chipped etc just wouldnt work so in effect Epson had bullied me into a corner then stamped in with having to pay for there short life dear cartridges.... I know there are those reading who'll be thinking clown whats he on about easy peasy etc but people become conditioned over time and just forget what simplicity really is and really its a matter of personal choice and perspective!!
I have read up and looked on you tube the other day and there are a whole throng of " nutcases" just like me, destroying epson printers in all manner with hammers bulldozers etc so I take comfort in the fact that I am " not alone" and in addition to reading the seiko corporation are pursuing the manufacturers of compatiable cardridges with vigour in an attempt to stamp out " counterfeit inferior products" to the ordinary man in the street cut out cheaper costing stuff and in effect creating a cartelle!!
Any way enough of me and my soap box I do appreciate your note Mau', I'm afraid I really have had it with epson and am considering another Cannon of sorts although at this moment I'm not sure which one I'll read up first and buy second.
Inekas
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