My EPSON sucks ink like...

iRye · Jan 28, 2008

continue the sentence. Saw a website with a bunch of analogies referring to how fast an EPSON printer eats ink!

My epson goes through ink faster than I go through facial tissues

Aptmunich · Jan 28, 2008

My Epson sucks ink like it knows the cartridges are 10€ a pop...

Shannonb · Jan 28, 2008

My Epson C120 (fastest inkjet on the market) sucks ink like its trying to screw me out of money and also wants to drive me freaking nuts by only printing 50 pages before it runs out.

iRye · Jan 28, 2008

Aptmunich said:
My Epson sucks ink like it knows the cartridges are 10€*a pop...

It does.

vank66 · Jan 28, 2008

Epson sucks ink

Do you refill your cartridges? I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 it uses ink too, but i refill the cartridges-much cheaper-give it a shot.

appleisgreat · Jan 28, 2008

My epson sucks ink like it knows that canon makes a better printer overall, and wants to have the lead in something...

iRye · Jan 28, 2008

My Epson sucks ink like it knows I'm going to return it tonight

bryphotoguy · Jan 28, 2008

I tossed my Epson but if I had an Epson, it would suck ink like it's only using 80% of the ink in there.

Epson admits they designed the hardware and software to tell you it's out of ink before it actually is. They feel it's best for consumers or that they're saving us money by doing this. Their thought it if you're in the middle of a print and it does run bone dry, you will have to waste a lot more ink because you will have to reprint the last work. By leaving some ink in the cartridge, they save us from ever truly running out of ink mid-print.

Now, I am not sure how much ink is really left when the cartridge is "empty" but I should be able to decide if I want to swap of the cartridge early or risk it.

bubba · Jan 28, 2008

Aptmunich said:
My Epson sucks ink like it knows the cartridges are 10€*a pop...

Do you think that's by design?

Remember the good old days when the printers costs a couple hundred bucks and the ink was cheap? Now the printer manufacturers can actually afford to give the printer away for free because they make so much $$$ on the ink!

iRye · Jan 28, 2008

bryphotoguy said:
I tossed my Epson but if I had an Epson, it would suck ink like it's only using 80% of the ink in there.

Epson admits they designed the hardware and software to tell you it's out of ink before it actually is. They feel it's best for consumers or that they're saving us money by doing this. Their thought it if you're in the middle of a print and it does run bone dry, you will have to waste a lot more ink because you will have to reprint the last work. By leaving some ink in the cartridge, they save us from ever truly running out of ink mid-print.

Now, I am not sure how much ink is really left when the cartridge is "empty" but I should be able to decide if I want to swap of the cartridge early or risk it.

See that lovely little chip?

That's on every EPSON cartridge. It counts how many pages have been printed that involves the cartridge. If you had a page that was mainly blue, . the cyan cartridge meter would go down a bit. It doesn't measure the ink at ALL. That's why I'm returning mine

schweb · Jan 29, 2008

That's why I have a Kodak 5300 printer:

http://printfreedom.kodak.com/

dtravis7 · Jan 29, 2008

schweb said:
That's why I have a Kodak 5300 printer:

http://printfreedom.kodak.com/

Interesting, Never seen a Kodak printer! How do you like it?

schweb · Jan 29, 2008

dtravis7 said:
Interesting, Never seen a Kodak printer! How do you like it?

I really like it alot. Works perfect with my Macs.

cheesybanana · Jan 29, 2008

I use the printer at my work

Ink = free

iRye · Jan 31, 2008

Lucky you $:\$

Tanner31593 · Jan 31, 2008

My EPSON sucks ink like the U.S. is using up all of a natural resources!

but seriously, i'm glad you said that, i thought it was just me.

iRye · Apr 9, 2008

My Canon sucks ink like it knows it can print 300 pages per cartridge!

gary61071 · Apr 9, 2008

cheesybanana said:
I use the printer at my work

Ink = free

Me too. We have a Xerox Docucolor 7000AP here, a big battleship of a printer, over 10' long. I print all my oversized prints (5x7s, 8x10s, etc) of my girls on 80# gloss cover stock. It can print up to a 13x19 sheet. Does a very nice job.