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Originally posted by Mal
An old Epson Stylus Color 480. I might just try that.
Thing is, it runs out of ink very quickly which is why I was thinking of getting a new printer.
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Useful information about Epson printers.
When they say they're out of ink they are *LYING THROUGH THEIR PRINTER PORTS!*
Which? Magazine did a test on these and found IIRC that at times they could get up to 30% more pages out of an "empty" cartridge!
When it says "empty", start the "replace cartridge" procedure, take the "empty" one out, switch the printer off, then back on again and re-install the same cartridge. (You may need to do some fancy work with the wall socket power switch to get the head in the right place to let you do this!)
You'll find it thinks you've put in a brand new cartridge and you can keep on printing merrily until it actually runs out of ink.
They say this is to stop people running the cartridges dry and thus damaging the print head, but I ran my Photo Stylus 750 for several months with a bone dry colour cartridge, then, when I wanted to use colour again, I just stuck in a head cleaner cart and kept running it either printing black pages (it uses the colour ink even when only printing black and even when in "black only" mode!) or running the cleaning cycle and within a very short time it was working fine and printing very pretty colour pics.
Also visit
http://www.printcartridge.net/acatalog/ and buy some Epson compatible cartridges and a head cleaner cartridge. They're a damn sight cheaper (including some buy one, get one free, deals on Epson cartridges) but they work just as well.