Epson printers are crap
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That is a shame. I have had an ET-2750 for several years and have had very little problems with it. I just had to clean the heads a few times as I don't print that often. I still have half of the original ink.
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Hi, had an HP 2940 that was great for printing but the cartridges were hideously expensive. I then went with a brother multi-function printer/fax/scanner (laser). It lasted through 7 years of cat hair, coffee and the sale bin paper. The network port stopped working. The USB port still worked so I gave it to a neighbor who has 1 pc, not 3. Bought a replacement Brother multi-functional printer/scanner/fax (laser) unit. So far so good.
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Always have been, though I hope they're better than the crappy 9-pin dot-matrix rubbish they used to peddle.
I had a Epson 9 pin for years very long ago. Worked as long as I had it. I don't recall any problems. Never needed service and I wasn't even taking care of it that well. Still working when I upgraded to a HP Laser which I only did so for the print quality. That HP Laser also lasted for years until I upgraded for color.
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkNever had an Epson printer. I have always relied an Canon printers for many years and have had only a single issue once, where I easily had the printer replaced...
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkI worked for Xerox back in the 80s, and all the paper feed systems are pretty much the same. We learned it's the paper being used, like that cheap paper that Staples sells, the Staples 20 pound bond, that is really a 16 lb bond, but it's super polished and smooth, and will glaze the feed wheels. You have to use a rag or microfiber towel with water and scrub the wheels hard, to remove the glaze. Plus paper has a curve to it, you can pick up say 300 sheets on one end, and watch it try to bend up or down, you usually want to load the paper bend down, or look at the reams label, and sometimes there's an arrow pointing up or down, and use the direction of the arrow, arrow down. Try a ream of Hammermill 20 lb bond first, after cleaning the feed and registration wheels, and see how that performs before tossing the printer. At least use up your ink, and then judge the printer. Better papers don't glaze up the feed and registration wheels.
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Nope, all scanner / printers have built in "money detectors" to prevent them working like a photocopier ... Apparently with some models, just trying will deliberately brick them. I found out about this when Herself had a thief at work: I wanted to OCR all the paper currency in her purse so if it went missing we could say "it was these serial numbers" and nick the cow who did it. But you can't scan currency and I wondered why. Google "EURion Constellation" if you are interested - it's pretty simple, but very effective.
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Sorry to hijack your thread, but the subject of printer issues is somewhat relevant and it's a true story that happened just a few days ago. When I got to the office Saturday morning, I found that my weekly notes were handwritten, not printed as usual. In the handwritten notes she explained that the printer was down...she stayed late trying to get the daily reports and my notes printed. Could I please fix it? I spent the next hour trying everything I could think of to get the printer and PC talking again...nothing worked. It was the simplest of all printer connections...a usb cable! :wtf: What could be wrong? I swapped USB ports on the PC...nothing...not even a ding...:confused: OK, that's a clue! Even though the other end of the USB cable was plugged in, it was plugged into the RJ-45 jack on the printer! :confused: :wtf: :laugh: I didn't even know that was possible! :laugh: Plugged the cable into the USB port on the printer and voila!... all the test pages I hadn't cancelled came streaming out! :laugh:
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tl;dr A bad cable on a parallel dot matrix printer caused a still unexplained error that cost two days of frustration to disagnose and correct. Years ago I spent a weekend helping a client install new accounting software and uploading their financial data from the old system. On Sunday we printed all their financial statements and compared them to the reports they had printed on Friday. Everything was good. Two weeks later they gave me a call. The balance on one of their monthly reports was out by 10 cents. The balance was supposed to be $15,260.00 and it appeared that way on screen. The printed balance showed $15,260.10, I could not find anything wrong with the software or the data. We hooked the printer up to another computer that ran the same software and it still produced the wrong printed total. We printed several other documents with no problem. We printed other statements (where the balance was not .00) and they worked fine. That led to another couple of hours down a dead-end rabbit hole. Okay. So computers are good, software is good, data is good, printer is good (except for the extra dime). What is the problem? After two days of head scratching I finally decided to swap out the printer cable. The discrepant dime disappeared. I have no idea how a bad parallel cable between the PC and the dot matrix printer could cause such and issue.
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkInk jet printers are a pain in general. I finally gave up on the one HP Ink-Jet I had inherited when it started showing an error message about the print head and their doc says that after 3 years, it is deemed broken and cannot be fixed, requiring buying a new printer. So, I only do laser printers now, even at home. Multicolor. Never dries out if you don't print enough. Lasts many years. Cheaper in the long run.
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkThe "cleaning" options don't have any thing to do with paper handling, so not sure why that's what you tried. We run a fleet of Epson printers in our office, several of the smaller desktop models (3 Color MFP's, 2 monochrome MFP's and 3 monochrome printers) and even one of the full size Enterprise models that prints 100 PPM in color (that's not a typo, it's really that fast). The printer in our warehouse has printed around 100 pages per day since it was installed nearly two years ago, and the Enterprise series copier prints about 25K pagers per month and hasn't seen a tech since it was installed nearly two years ago. We did have one printer that was jamming constantly when printing card stock. We tried the card stock in a HP LaserJet printer too and it still jammed, turned out it was the stock. So, you might have gotten a bad one or you might have bad paper, but I can personally attest that Epson printers are usually quite reliable.
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkI have a completely different experience. We have a 25-year-old DFX-9000 that is still printing green bar like crazy. We also have a 14-year-old Stylus Photo R2880 for 13 x 19 for photographic prints and still working but scheduled for replacement. For normal documents, we have a 7-year-old WF-4740 inkjet that actually replaced a Brother Laser we had for 15 years. No issues with any of them except when the Brother finally gave up the ghost. Sometimes, it's the environment but I learned a long time ago that crappy paper jams easily so we never use anything less than 20 lbs. We normally use 24 lb. for most documents and 48 lb. photo paper for prints.
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My cheap Cannon works like a charm for the last 10 years. And we feed it with the cheapest cartridges on the market.
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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Sounds like you got a bad one or something. Or you have some kind of software based rubbish going on. My canons have been pretty reliable. One exception is when my cat finally caught the monster that lived inside the printer. It hasn't worked right since. :laugh: Still works though, but needs love.
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The printer's maybe 3 years old, and I hardly ever print anything, given I have 2 lasers, and despise ink-jet printers. But, I use it primarily to print on printable discs, and laser's not an option here. It worked great for the first couple of years, then it's only been getting progressively worse. I've gone through many ink cartridge replacements, especially since the first few dried prematurely as they hardly got any use. These days, knowing I can be months without using it, I try to take out the cartridges and place them back in a sealed plastic bag. That does seem to prevent them from drying up, but I'm also having a hard time powering up the printer without having it come up with that error code...
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I bought an ET-2800 a couple months ago, and at this point, I can't print anything because the paper constantly jams. Tried doing the various "cleaning" options. Never going to by an Epson again. :mad: If I weren't so environmentally conscious, I would get great pleasure in throwing the printer down the ravine and watching it break into pieces. Maybe I'll get out the sledge hammer and vent my frustration. And no, getting it "repaired" isn't on my list, as I'm sure the problem will just return after a 100 pages or so of printing. :mad:
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A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity FrameworkIt seems these days that unless you get into a pricier printer that most of them are junk. I have a Canon image class that was a steal, since it was a floor model and it is amazing. But it was a $400ish printer that I got for less than 1/2 the price. One note on printers that I've learned over my 40 years (yikes!) of using them, some are really sensitive to the paper when it comes to feeding. It's not necessarily the cost of the paper either, I've just had combinations that don't work. The other thing is humidity. Really dry or really humid weather can change the paper just enough to cause issues. The rollers and slides can cause issues, but should last longer than what you have. They can be a real dog to get to on small printers to clean them correctly. Failing that, it's still under warranty; send it back!
