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Even if you just want to type black you are out of luck. I have owned this printer for a little over 6 months and in the beginning it was great. In the last month I have spent $[.]. But after a few months it started going thru its VERY expensive ink like crazy. It will only operate if all the cartridges are present and full enough. on ink for this thing, and once again its asking for more. I give up, its going out the window onto the concrete.
I've had several Epson printers in the past 12 years and have met varying degrees of satisfaction from them. I understand Epson makes a good deal of money from their inks, but I've already bought your product; let me use it how I, your customer, want. They are also prohibitively expensive to replace. This is also an issue as it does not support all Wifi encryption models. Pros:- Scanning is acceptable and has decent results compared to past Epson scanners I've owned.- Using Epson paper with their Claria ink results in excellent photo prints.Cons:- The ink replacements on this are a joke. It guzzles ink faster than a Lamborghini does gas in a race. This was such a disappointing purchase for me. I've not been able to get the Wifi to work with my network which seems to be no problem for my HP.
I'm not fond of leaving a printer running all the time to waste energy, so it'd be nice for it to just work in a somewhat reasonable time.I do mention two PRO's which seem a strong case for giving it more than two stars, however the headaches I've had to deal with have lowered my confidence in the product tremendously. Without ink the machine is rendered useless, you cannot use ANY on-board functionality until the cartridges are replaced.- Networking, this is a nightmare all it's own. There are some issues caused by me the user; yet the product has not met my needs in a functional and economical way in the long-run.This will be the last Epson product I buy. The first batch worked fine. I read initial reviews that praised the Artisan 700 for it's print quality and features, thus made the purchase after quite some deliberation. Ethernet connections work fine but confine the printer to being near my router (without having to run a ton of cable).- Start up time is almost embarrassing.
After several sets I switched to a generic supplier recommended by Amazon. However a firmware update to the printer has now rendered them all useless. It takes a good minute, usually more, for it to run through it's little warm-up process. The variable quality of their products and blatant gouging of their customers is not the sort of company I want to support.
There are obvious perks to this all in one printer such as the CD/DVD printing which I myself do a lot of and was my main reason for purchasing this printer. Which sounds good but everytime it cleans its heads it dumps some ink into the waste pad.Which brings me to the biggest negative in my opinion and that is the printer is destined to prematurely fail due to the ink waste pad. When this error occurs your printer is unoperable and you must use the reset or contact Epson. There is a downloaded driver you can use to reset the counter if you check the pad and see it still has pleanty of white on the pads. Having a slot in the front of the printer for my cameras card has also worked out well. Print quality is also very good and I have been happy with the print speeds as well.
The price for all it does is also a good value in my opinion. The wireless is also another perk although I do not use that feature but did test it. I have owned this printer for a year now and overall I gave it 4 stars. and it had a 2 year warranty that came with it. It seems like when it does that it is giving its self a quick head clean. The ink waste pad gets fuller and fuller with every head cleaning After so many head cleanings it will set off the counter that the waste pad is full even when it is not. I contacted Epson customer service and spoke with a nice gentleman who told me they would have me a replacement printer sent to me in 2-3 days and when it arrived to box the old one up and send it through the prepaid by Epson Fedex shipping.
The draw backs to this printer are the amount of ink it uses and the over all price of the ink which can get kind of taxing if you use it a lot.Slow to respond at times, sometimes I will go to print a cd or print some papers and it seems to take a few minutes before it processes the given task. Easy set up is another, although it does take a little time for everything to load properly. The printer is then classified as in need of replacement or repair.This just happened to my printer and I had already known about the problem before hand. The front panel display is also easy to navigate and works well. I must say that this is an occasional thing but still annoying. I did not choose to reset the counter because I purchased this printer from [.]. So although I was inconvienced for a few days I received a new replacement and still have a year left on my warranty.This problem is covered by the warranty as long as you have not altered your printer with a continuous ink system or with a waste ink tank or any other modifications that will void the warranty.
This printer does a nice job. Expect to pay the price of the printer again monthly for ink.
and do not buy the aritsan 700. Always. I would not wish this printer on my worst enemy. Especially at the price it's at. My first and very last ever epson product. It guzzles ink, extremely slow start up times, and constant clogged printheads and streaked, poor quality prints. Epson should be ashamed of themselves for putting a printer like this on the market. For what I"ve spent on ink in the last year of owning this thing I could have purchased a color laser printer, which, by the way, I am now shopping for.
I use a good quality paper and it's always grabbing more than one sheet at once, printing my page on 2 pages, which of course, forces you to make a reprint, using yet more ink. What's the point of 6 ink cartridges if they're all empty at the same time. Sure, wireless, only if you use a very low level of security for your wireless network, it doesn't support wpa2. Guaranteed.
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