I’m posting this about wide format Epson printers. My first printer of note for our office was an Epson Stylus Color 1520. It was large format, and used for engineering drawings. What ultimately happened was the print head became clogged and it was replaced with an Epson STYLUS PHOTO R200, which now has arrived at boat anchor status. As far as the MAGA crowd is concerned we should, as a country, be able to do better than this, and have done so in the past.
What is getting in the way of better product from the USA is a central bank passing out free money that lands in the pockets of company executives, who have no better motivation than to use it to increase the stock price, thus wa-la-la their own holdings. Forget about putting out products that represent increased value, thus increasing sales the “old fashioned way”.
Now that I’m past that bit of criticism I’m left with the decision to buy a printer, and Epson appears to have MOST of what I’m looking for...except.
The Epson ET-7750 is wide format and will print out all current design work on ANSI B-size paper. But Epson, and their cartel community members, have put forth a deceptive advertising campaign, not lost on us who have experienced clogging of inkjets, that refilling the printers 5 or so ink reservoirs had finally solved the problem of high cost cartridges... or has it?
First of all you still have to run maintenance cycles to prevent head clogging, and somewhat regularly. So their claims of 2 years ink supply sold with the printer is more like 1 year. And the ET-7750 printer is 10X more than the current boat anchor, the Epson STYLUS PHOTO R200. And apparently those who wander the walnut paneled executive suites of American Companies, like HP, could care less. Our CB is taking care of them with low-to-no interest loans to prop stock prices.
Then there is the paucity of information about the ET-7750. Initial hesitancy emerged from previous experience. All the ink used in maintenance cycles was dumped into the printer’s interior ink pad. Only later was it discovered that a maintenance box existed to collect ink used in the cleaning cycle. The trouble is that it is seldom listed, and appears to be an add-on. (?) Of course instead of ink an appropriate cleaning solution could have been used that found its way to the maintenance box, instead of the ink pad, after which the final part of the cycle could have been a short burst of ink through the supply lines to the print heads onto the typical check on print head quality.
If you think this is so much BS visit Epson’s high end SureColor series where this is exactly what is done. Of course that series of printers can run many thousands of dollars, depending on size. Be sure when you vote shortly it will include tendencies to put out of office those who have supported lining the pockets of those in executive suites undeservedly.
