Mike D.

Epson Ink Scam
First off stay away from any printer that has a "Maintenance box" as all it does is waste your ink and money by design!
I just replaced the Magenta and Yellow ink cartridges and as the pic shows I still had some ink in the Black and Cyan cartridges before I did. After replacing the two, the printer does some "Maintenance" then tells me to replace the Cyan ink cartridge as it is now empty, so since it won't do anything unless I do, I replaced it. It does its "maintenance" again, now the black cartridge is empty and the two I just replaced are a quarter gone. Again, it forces me to replace the black cartridge, so I did, more "maintenance," now the Magenta and Yellow cartridges are half empty and the cyan cartridge is a quarter empty. Not one thing was printed yet the two cartridges I just replaced seconds earlier are half empty and the other a quarter empty.
I will never buy an Epson printer again and I will do everything I can to avoid a printer with a "maintenance box" scam built in, just call it what it is EPSON… an ink reservoir that we've designed into the machine to make you waste a lot of ink and money, but it is okay as it is for your printers benefit to flush out the printer heads and buy more overpriced ink.
It is unfortunate that so many corporations have adopted such unethical business practices all for the bottom line… Yes, capitalism breeds such small greedy minds.
This company should be sued!