Epson eco tank printer is on its way: My ET 8550 printer been unavailable for months and finally coming. Price went up $100 from time I put my name on the notification list. Can print...

Sidwalkastronomy Loc: New Jersey Shore

My ET 8550 printer been unavailable for months and finally coming. Price went up $100 from time I put my name on the notification list.
Can print 13x19 which I'll never do but will do 11x14 often

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

Where did you find one in stock? That appears to be a marvelous printer!

thofern

Sidwalkastronomy wrote:

My ET 8550 printer been unavailable for months and finally coming. Price went up $100 from time I put my name on the notification list.
Can print 13x19 which I'll never do but will do 11x14 often

We bought an Epson Ecotank printer shortly after they came out. Shortly after the warranty ran out, the print heads became clogged and no amount of cleaning would revive them. In talking with Epson support we were told that we weren’t printing often enough and that the ink would dry out in the heads. Perhaps newer versions of the printer have resolved that problem, but the suggestion from Epson was to print something at least every week or so.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

thofern wrote:

We bought an Epson Ecotank printer shortly after they came out. Shortly after the warranty ran out, the print heads became clogged and no amount of cleaning would revive them. In talking with Epson support we were told that we weren’t printing often enough and that the ink would dry out in the heads. Perhaps newer versions of the printer have resolved that problem, but the suggestion from Epson was to print something at least every week or so.

There is little that Epson can do about ink drying in an unused printer. But their suggestion is the right approach. You could print almost anything but you want to be sure all of the colors get used.

I have an P900 and an 10 year old R2880 that I use occasionally. I use the unclog program in Qimage Ultimate to print a half page pattern (just a little ink) on plain 8-1/2x11 weekly on a schedule. Both are superb printers and I have never had a clogging problem.

pbcbob Loc: Delray Beach, FL

I have owned my 8550 now for about one year. I generally print two or three 8.5 x 11 images every week and best of all, I still have over half my original ink left. So nice not constantly changing cartridges.

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

thofern wrote:

We bought an Epson Ecotank printer shortly after they came out. Shortly after the warranty ran out, the print heads became clogged and no amount of cleaning would revive them. In talking with Epson support we were told that we weren’t printing often enough and that the ink would dry out in the heads. Perhaps newer versions of the printer have resolved that problem, but the suggestion from Epson was to print something at least every week or so.

I was an Epson printer user since my first computer printer, Epson FX-80. After I upgraded to their ink jets, I had nothing but clogging issues. When they worked it was great, but often they would start clogging in the middle of a long run.

I gave up and went to Canon - Minimal clogging issues with Canon, even after a cross country move and 2 months shut down.

Old Coot

Costco has Model 8500 in stock