What will irk most is that service and support will cost more than replacing the printer. Perils of lower costs. I will not write much about why removing free support lowers the initial cost of the printer, but I have learned to just pay the piper on ink cartridges. The Epson has some superfine nozzles and I can't say if non-Epson ink will clog. But will note that your warranty is void now and I'd open the window before tossing it.
Bob
Ok, the story goes, I bought this Epson C82 inkjet printer about 4 months ago. Now I ran out of black awhile ago and bought some at a discount online and things have been fine.Until I ran out of magenta,
now nothing is printing, so I replaced all with Epson C80 ink from Office Depot, still no printing, I cleaned the heads 5 times, did all mantenience and nothing. So I thought it was the C80 ink. So I bought C82 ink at a discount online and tried printing just a cover letter and all I got is just some streaks, then I tried a photo setting and I got a very faint and streaked print.Sooo, I called Epson Customer Service and they want to charge me $9 for their help, forget that, can anyone help, or do I have to pay the $9 for a phone call? I want to throw this thing out the window, Help! Thanks Mike

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