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Summary: Not a good long-term buy.
Review: I received my Epson Stylus C62 as a present about two years ago. I was fairly pleased with the printer, and I have to say that for someone who doesn't go through a heck of a lot of ink, and isn't extremely particular about printout quality, it isn't the worst piece of equipment I've used. However, today, not even two years later, I'm having to gear up to throw this piece of equipment away. The clogging printer heads have finally brought any hope I have in using it to an end. I have had the same bad experiences as everyone else who has given poor reviews about this product - very overpriced ink cartridges, and an ongoing, eventually un-fixable clog issue that has you shelling out the bucks for nothing. The first signs come in when your repeated, incessant cleaning of the printer heads no longer remedies the banding or smearing... give up the ghost and don't fall for the 'just but new cartridges' advice that I was silly enough to take.
The one who bought me the printer just Googled to check for any solutions to my issues, and read the dozens of the same complaints from others. He has said that if he'd read any of it previously, he would never have purchased the printer, So, if you're looking for a printer that will continue providing consistent quality after a couple of years, steer absolutely clear of this one, folks! Even if the overall price for the printer is low, I have to say that this is one case where you really get what you pay for... (in everything but ink!)
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Summary: Great product!
Review: I recently bought this printer and enjoy the quality output it produces. Setup was a snap (I use Windows XP) and everything installed beautifully. I snapped the accompanying print cartridges in and I was off to the races. I quickly printed out a webpage and then some color photographs on inkjet index cards which came out decent. Then I popped in a 4x6 glossy, used the software that came with it and with minimal maneuvering, came out with a beautifully printed photo. I am impressed that this printer can practically do it all: it supports many paper sizes, envelopes, stickers and iron transfers.For this price, this printer is a dream. I do admit though it is quite noisy and it takes a minute or so to print a 4 x 6 glossy photograph but these are not issues for me.
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Summary: Good Value for the Price
Review: I replaced a six year old HP which was just too slow and noisy for my computer needs, which are nothing fancy. I have not gotten into printing photos, but wanted the capability to do so in the future. The printer was very easy to put together; it took less time to assemble the machine than it did for the software to load. The black characters are sharp and the colors are clear. The test will be how long the ink cartridges last.
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Summary: Great little printer for the money!
Review: I'm a printer snob... but this one has me impressed. I was looking for a well rounded printer to give as a graduation present for a soon-to-be college student. This does everything and it does it well.. prints in color, prints in black and white and even prints photos. I wouldn't recommend this for the true photo enthusiast, but for professional looking school/business reports and scanned photo/digital photo reprints for friends this really does the trick! The speed at which your documents (color or b&w) print is very nice for someone on their way to class who ends up printing moments before class begins. Epson has a long tradition of being hassle free, and this model continues that tradition. No worries about printer errors with this little printer ;) I can't recommend this enough, after I got the printer for the grad, I got 2 more for others.
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Summary: Good printer but some flaws.
Review: It is a really good printer and prints great. I have printed about 1000 pages from it and the prints are great. It is not that expensive and prints really fast. It has some flaws. Some flaws are that it takes time to get started, but when it gets started it prints really fast. When the ink is less it prints bad but you just clean the head from the computer and it starts printing great again. When you press stop it prints about a page before stopping. Overall, it is a must buy for a good and an inexpensive printer. The ink cartridge is cheap from printpal. It is a great printer and I love it. I use it almost everyday for school work and my mom for her work. If u are looking for a good printer this is really good.
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Summary: Printer is Dope!!
Review: It's perfect for me. Some complain of noise. But to me its not that noisy. It's not like your sleeping anyway, so why be quiet. It seems to go through ink fast though
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Summary: My Epson Experience
Review: My Epson Experience Let me begin by saying that I have over ten years of experience with all things computer related. During that period I have worked in almost every aspect of computer support. I have personally cleaned out countless numbers of inkjet printers with q-tips distilled water and alcohol. I kept my own Epson 740 going for 5 years without too much difficulty. I only got rid of it because I had a client that was desperate for a printer that would accept a Mac serial port. Boy due I miss that Epson 740. I bought a C82 a little less than a year ago, after reading good reviews. I assumed it would be built at least as well as the Epson 740 I was using before. Even after ten months my C82 still appears in almost brand new shape inside and out. Heck, I've only used it about thirty times or so. I keep it inside of cabinet shielded from dust. Plus as a matter of standard practice, I turn off all inkjet printers as soon as I finish using them, and I always change ink cartridges as quickly as possible to prevent ink from drying out inside printers. So was I ever surprised when my printer stopped working. It had worked fine with the first set of cartridges I had installed. However, as soon as I changed cartridges the printer stopped working. I tried cleaning it at least fifty times, but it did nothing to improve the situation. So I did the natural thing and googled my problem. I was shocked by the sheer number of search results. After reading through the reviews at Amazon and the hundreds of messages at fixyourownprinter.com I've come to realize that Epson has built and continue to build a printer that is so poorly designed one must question their integrity as a company. To think that so many people would experience the same problem and that their only solution is to continue to send people refurbished printers until their warranty expires. Oh, and the part that will really get you, is that they require you to purchase and install a new set of four Epson branded ink cartridges to insure that your currently installed cartridges are not what is defective. So before you can even have your printer replaced you must invest at least sixty dollars on ink. Of course they offer to send you new ink with the replacement printer. Still to ask me to sink my time, energy, and sixty dollars into having my printer replaced with another one, which will simply get me right back to where I began. I mean really, the nerve. Is this what our present day world has come to? Have we set ourselves up so that these large corporations can totally take advantage of us in this way? Is there no recourse? Are there no standards of business ethics that they can be held accountable for? The experience has left me feeling unusually sad. Epson has made me realize just how much I am at the mercy of these large corporations. I mean, if you want to print, who else can you buy a printer from?
I know that even if Epson would own up to this, they would argue that they had to make the printers so cheaply to remain competitive. Without doing so they would go out of business tomorrow. We've heard all that before. Haven't we? Still though, this printer is made by someone in a Chinese factory. I know I'm going out on a limb here, but I would guess that that person is not well paid. Perhaps they are even exploited to some extent or at the very least we could guess that they are taken advantage of to some extent. Then as they role off the Chinese production line, Epson sends these defective printers all over the globe, wrapped up in fancy magazine advertisements. People like me buy the printer, use the ink, put in new ink, discover it no longer works, call Epson, ship the printer back to Epson, get the refurbished printer in the mail, and <repeat>. Once the warranty is up we move our broken printer into the garage for a year or so, and then throw it away. It all seems so pointless. Don't think me a luddite either. I love computers, printers, and gadgets as much as the next person. It's just that it disgusts me that I am forced to deal with a corporation that is not held to any kind of moral or ethical principles. As long as they are making money and growing we think of them as a good thing, without worrying about who they are taking advantage of. What are we doing here? How can we let Epson get away with this? Really! Well it's not difficult for me to say I will be boycotting all Epson products in the future. I mean I'm sort of doubtful of their quality anyways. Oh and I haven't even mentioned the very unhelpful tech support and customer service representatives that I called long distance at my own expense. What a waste! Really what a waste! Sincerely, - Mark Whitney -
Hollywood, CA P.S. I know the solution is to buy myself a do-it-yourself printer cleaning kit. If you google it you'll see that many companies sell them specifically for the Epson C80/C82. However, if you try to buy one you'll soon discover that they are all sold out, as I mentioned before I'm not the only one with this problem.
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Summary: Ideal for webtv users
Review: printer is fast and quality is excellent.perfect for the webtv user,easy to hook up and use. bill gates did it all for us.the picture quality is very good,a little noisy but really not that bad.price is right and epson gave us a great product.
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Summary: Disappointing Print Quality
Review: Several years ago, I owned an Epson 640 that worked wonderfully. I gave it up when I bought my new computer with USB ports. I upgraded to the C62. I was disappointed when I purchased the C62 and found the print quality so poor. The biggest problem is that the print heads clog quickly and leave smudges all over the paper. You can run that cleaning utility several times (which really uses up ink), but you'll only get one good copy out of it before the heads clog again. I have only had this printer a year and a half, but it has never had the print quality of the 640. I bailed on Epson and took a hand-me-down HP, 2 years old, that works so much better.
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Summary: Mediocre Printer
Review: The printer works quickly, but can be noisy. It provides good printed pages. The ink goes fast though. Even if you print with black ink only, the color ink cartridge is also consumed. If you end up with an empty color cartridge then you have to buy the color cartidge in order for the printer to work. Otherwise, it's a mediocre printer.
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