I concur on the 820 - I threw one in the trash too! My HP 7960 is so much better. My experience with Epson printers is that the expensive ones are great and the cheap ones are crap. Kind of sounds like Canon lenses <grin>.
-- Best regards, Bruce Thursday, August 25, 2005, 4:59:01 PM, you wrote: k> Graywolf wrote: k> [...] >> Currently my photo printer is a 3 year old Epson Stylus Photo 820. Slow, >> expensive to run with Epson ink and paper, cheap with off brand stuff >> from ebay. Prints better at 360 than at 720 which makes me believe that >> the 2880x720 spec is just advertising crap. It too has clogging problems >> for which is is justly infamous. However I have developed techniques >> which minimizes that: Print a nozzle check every week if I am not using >> it regularly. If it absolutely needs a head cleaning do one and let it >> set overnight before doing another nozzle check. That seems to work as >> well as doing 10-12 head cleanings which is what it seems to need if you >> follow Epson's instructions. Done their way you use more ink cleaning >> the nozzles than you do printing. Makes them lots of money, I guess. >> BTW, I have fewer clogs with the cheap ink than with the Epson, although >> the Epson ink give better color control. k> I had an Epson 820 and it was infamous for clogging it's jets! k> I finally couldn't clean a couple of orifices no matter what I did, so I k> gave it up to the trash man! Literally! Threw it in the trash barrel, k> con mucho gusto! k> I promptly got a Canon bubble jet iP 3000 PIXMA photo printer. k> I've never been so happy! k> It's what my Epson 820 Photo Printer SHOULD have been! k> keith whaley k> [...] >> graywolf
