RVTZ4

I take my empty cartridges to Costco. They refill them in a little less than 30 minutes. Just enough time for me to shop and buy more than I thought I needed
Cartridges work great and are inexpensive!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yes. My wife went through three Epson office printers and an HP, all clogged by Cartridge World ink, before learning her lesson! Don’t waste your money clogging heads or sacrifice print longevity or UV fade resistance.

True PHOTO quality pigmented inks are expensive. Output costs well over $1.00 per square foot, just for ink.

Yes, you can use third party inks, but will you need new ICC profiles to get the color right? Will your prints fade in a few years, instead of 100?

ecurb1105

I had an Epson printer, using Epson cartridges. Printer head leaked, ruined printer, head, paper and cabinet printer was on. I will never use, buy or recommend an Epson printer.

Yourstruly43

I had an Epson 4900 printer and only used Epson inks and it gummed up 14 months after I bought it. Dumped Epson and bought a Canon ipf6400 which has replaceable print heads and a built in calibration utility.

Perhaps you are blaming wrongly. Newer Epson large format printers have been a disaster as far as clogging is concerned (I can’t speak to their newest printers — I leave that to others). The problem was so bad that major suppliers of printers and print media warned against buying Epson printers even though they sold them.

bpulv Loc: Buena Park, CA

Yes, and I will never buy another reloaded one again. Several years ago, I had an Epson color inkjet printer (in the days when color printers were really expensive). The reloaded ink clogged the heads to the point that I had to through out the printer. I made the mistake of replacing the printer with another Epson. The printer was excessively expensive to keep in ink. The ink did not last very long before the low ink warning came on and I had to buy more ink. If one of the four cartridges ran out, it would not print at all, even if a color cartridge was out of ink and I only wanted to use print in black and white (this was before inkjet printers used other colors to tint black. After a few months of that, the printer clogged again in spite of the fact that I only used Epson ink on the new printer, and I had to scrap that printer too.

A month after that I received a legal notice in the mail informing me of the settlement of a class action lawsuit against Epson. It seems that they had purposely set the control chip in the ink cartridges to tell the printer they were out of ink after only 60% of the ink was in fact used. Several large corporate customers along with some consumers were first parties to the suit and I presume made out quite well along with the lawyers, of course. My compensation was a coupon good for either a small credit on my next ink purchase for my now scrapped printer, or 10% off the cost of a new printer. I declined to use the coupon and have never bought or recommended an Epson product of any kind since.

WayneL Loc: Baltimore Md

I've been using Jarbo cartridges from Amazon in my Canon printer for 2 years and no problems.

Rebel 1 Loc: Woodbridge, New Jersey

I use precision colors on my Epson P400 never had a problem.

Duane Hanley Loc: Milwaukee Wisconsin

My recommendations are to only use Epson ink with your Epson printer. Printer heads are particularly sensitive and designed to run with their ink. I have been using nothing but Epson printers for what seems like 2 decades and I never had clogged heads because of ink quality. Only trust the manufacturer for your ink needs.

nancyf

Thanks to all for the helpful comments! Nancy

IDguy Loc: Idaho

All I use.

pbcbob Loc: Delray Beach, FL

I have been using Carrot Ink for years on my Epson 837. Less than half price with free shipping.

Yourstruly43

Amen