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    11 months ago

    WTF, I thought HP had the MOST hated printers?

    Epson is getting away with its ecotank models, and Brother lasers have been the go to for a lot of people.

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      I got my ecotank two years ago and haven’t had a reason to buy ink since. I still have plenty of the ink that came with it. The most frustrating thing has been that I have to let it run through a cleaning cycle when I haven’t printed in a while. Well, that and the fact it took me a second to realize it doesn’t support WPA3.

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        11 months ago

        The cleaning cycle thing is pretty common with any inkjet. My old HPs all do it when I havent used them in a while.

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      I want to love my ecotank Epson. The software is butt ugly, but works. The printer itself isn’t the nicest looking, but works.

      But man, the print quality. No matter how many times I run a cleaning cycle, it’s still a smeary mess within two pages and the deep clean doesn’t work. Neither the instructions in the manual nor found online work.

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        11 months ago

        I think that’s just how epsons are. My first two printers were Epson and they both started smearing ink after a few years.

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      11 months ago

      They must be going for the mainstream audience that just knows printers suck. That, and anybody who knows enough to see how funny that sentence is, has already sworn off HP forever.

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      11 months ago

      I have a Epson L1300 ecotank, and never managed to get that poop work on Linux and the software is annoying on Windows… And every time printing, I need to start with cleaning the nozzle multiple times before the print quality is even half decent