Never Again
I used to always buy Epson. I had Canon and HP but the quality wasn’t as good in my opinion.
My first inkjet was an Epson Stylus Colour II and I had no issues with it at all. I only got rid of it because I couldn’t buy ink for it any more.
My last inkjet printer was an Epson Stylus Photo PX700W. A good printer initially but when I stopped using it as much I started to get issues with pint quality. 3rd party inks seemed ok but on occasion the printer would reject them.
I don’t understand the problem of not being able to print in monochrome because a colour ink was empty?? I can understand that printing in colour might also require black but monochrome SHOULDN’T require any of the colours!!
The final straw is when I could no longer use the scanner unit because the ink was out. Seriously? So I now have a large piece of plastic junk that I can’t even use as a scanner unless I buy ink which doesn’t work because the printer hasn’t been used and has now dried up and probably needs a new print head. So I need to waste money on ink I can’t use just to use the scanner?
No. I now have a Brother latter printer with scanner unit.