In the printer wars days (Epson vs. HP), I was convinced
that HP partisans recycled clogging reports indefinitely.
But I am an Epson partisan, so take that with a grain of
salt.
The most notorious clogger was supposed to be the Epson
Stylus Color 600. I still have one and use it about once
every three months. It is usually perfect. Once in a
while I have to run a cleaning cycle. If I have to run a
cleaning cycle more than once, I put a few drops of Windex
on the "home" pad that the heads rest on and leave it for a
while. I always get a good nozzle check after that. It's
very wasteful to keep running cleaning cycles. Windex is
better.
The 600 is noisy, my PhotoEx at work is less noisy, my 1160
is amazingly quiet. I don't know why there is a difference.
Joel W.
Quoting Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> The yellow on my 1270 clogged once when I left it unused
> for a long
> stretch with an almost empty color cartridge. Otherwise
> it had never had
> any problem at in 2 years. Loud is a subjective thing,
> but I don't find
> my Epson to be loud.
>
> Moose
>
> Boris Grigorov wrote:
>
> ><>
> >The other that I was considering was the obvious Epson,
> but I heard that their heads clog up and take a lot of
> ink to unclog and also very loud.
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