Title: Ink Cartidge Usage Problems
Review: We have two Epson C88+ printers which we bought because their price seemed reasonable. We are very unhappy with these because of their ink cartridge usage. First of all the cartridges are expensive. Next, we constantly having to clean the nozzle heads or align the heads to prevent gaps from appearing in the printed documents. This cleaning/aligning uses much more ink so the cartidges don't last as long as they should. By the time we get everything printing well, it is time to replace the cartridges. Lastly the printer stops printing if even one cartridge is out of ink. You cannot even print in only black if (say) the yellow is out. Several times when replacing the cartridges, I would shake the "empty" cartridge and it sounded like there was still plenty of ink left. I am wondering if their monitor get confused at times and reports a cartridge empty when it is not. By the way, BOTH printers exhibit the same behavior.
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