My Epson C62 printer started to give me trouble about six months after purchasing it so I contacted Epson, after a few tests with their technical team and after wasting a vast amount of ink from their genuine ink tanks I was advised to take it to a local Epson dealer. "Print heads" said the dealer as though I had been printing on sandpaper....! He duly give me a replacement and literally threw the C62 straight into the nearest bin, I repeat " threw it", the replacement was of course minus the ink tanks and when I got home minus the guarantee and receipt of purchase documents.
The problem was black lines on picture with a yellow cast about 1" from the left hand side and along the bottom of the picture, as though in a frame. The normal black & white text consisted of either blue or red straight lines through the text - sometimes these were broken, the lines could not have been more straighter if a ruler had been used with a coloured pen. The higher the settings in the printer on-screen driver settings made matters more worse.
The replacement printer has started to produce exactly the same effects. I had to contact Epson several times before getting a response. I expect to get at least 12 months of trouble free service from a brand new purchase (excluding print head cleaning), certainly not the case here.
The printer is nothing but a "noisy ink guzzler", it consumes ink at an alarming rate - even if it is not being cleaned, and regularly goes through a cleaning routine when powered up, and requires regular head cleaning - certainly can not be left standing or unused. when it is working correctly the print quality is acceptable as a general purpose all round printer.
The cartridges are not exactly cheap either, the 'Intellichip' as I believe Epson calls it, to you and me the 'chipped cartridges' is a sales gimmick to boost the Epson cartridge sales - BE WARNED it does not monitor the amount of ink in the tanks BUT only ESTIMATES the amount of ink remaining by presumably counting the number of pages, for there is no feedback between the ink level and the chip, it is not the same as a water/oil/petrol guage on a car, and when one go's the printer can not be used at all.
To be honest, purchasing a set of cartridges for an Epson, one could purchase a Lexmark printer complete with cartridges. My advice when buying a printer is keep away from 'Chipped Cartridges' and Epson’s peizo print heads, I am now beginning to think that 'long life peizo heads is also another sales gimmick - basically like a crystal in an oscillator stage of a receiver or transmitter, the heads are vibrating to squirt the ink and crystals do crack when driven hard, whether this is the case I can not say, I also suspected a leak around the clamp holding the head in place
The local dealer no longer services Epson printers. No More Epson products for me.
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I just switched to Epson from Lexmark. I find the ink cartridges much cheaper, the printer is better and quicker too. I'll be sure to avoid the C62 though, it doesn't sound very good. Happy ciao-ing xx
Connoisseur_Haggler 18.01.2005 14:56
Very useful points. I've had an Epson stylus for years -with no problems (not the C62) I called Epson once and they were really fast and sent an engineer round -as I had a blockage-Im ashamed to say it was a dropped biro that fell into the printer that I hadnt noticed -after they removed 'the blockage' my printer was fine! Did you have your problem within 12 months? as Epson are usually very fast in responding. I never used official Epson inks either when they finished I used alternative brands.(just make usre you have Epson ink in there if you call Epson out!) Cheers -CH
alish 18.01.2005 14:50
Useful review... but is this your second review on the same item?
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