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Printer Rant......
In a bad mood atm over my printer (Epson Photo RX425), basicly the ink for this thing costs about £30, I buy the ink cartridges, whack them in the printer and they charge up and everythings fine, yet if I don't print nothing for more than 4-5 days and then when I go to use the printer my docoments come out patchy, I do a print nozzel check and you can cleary see lines missing so I have to clean the heads, problem is cleaning the heads cains about 15-20% of my ink and usualy it takes about 3-4 times to get them clean again,
Now usaully to stop this from happening I have to print out a test page or random doc at least once aday to keep the ink flowing, the thing is sometimes I forget to do this and that means when I do come to print sometihng out £30 worth of ink has gone down the drain, like tonight, in fact I nearly throw the printer out the window (I know, hardly rational behavior but it really stressed me),
Is this the way all inkjet printers work ?, b-cos tbh I've never really own'd a printer that ever really seems to work right and ends up costing me an arm and a-leg in ink, can you not leave them on for a few days without them having to go througth head cleaning cycles,
Also what would anyone recommend as a relieable inkjet printer, I only ever print out word documents and web pages etc, I was thinking of going over to budget laser jet, are these just as problematic ?
In a bad mood atm over my printer (Epson Photo RX425), basicly the ink for this thing costs about £30, I buy the ink cartridges, whack them in the printer and they charge up and everythings fine, yet if I don't print nothing for more than 4-5 days and then when I go to use the printer my docoments come out patchy, I do a print nozzel check and you can cleary see lines missing so I have to clean the heads, problem is cleaning the heads cains about 15-20% of my ink and usualy it takes about 3-4 times to get them clean again,
Now usaully to stop this from happening I have to print out a test page or random doc at least once aday to keep the ink flowing, the thing is sometimes I forget to do this and that means when I do come to print sometihng out £30 worth of ink has gone down the drain, like tonight, in fact I nearly throw the printer out the window (I know, hardly rational behavior but it really stressed me),
Is this the way all inkjet printers work ?, b-cos tbh I've never really own'd a printer that ever really seems to work right and ends up costing me an arm and a-leg in ink, can you not leave them on for a few days without them having to go througth head cleaning cycles,
Also what would anyone recommend as a relieable inkjet printer, I only ever print out word documents and web pages etc, I was thinking of going over to budget laser jet, are these just as problematic ?
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, It seems that canon is the way to go then, think I'm going to go for the PIXMA iP2000 which should be more than enougth for what I need.