My Epson C84

[Polish Prince \(Szynka\)]

When they work, Epson printers produce quality prints.

I'm ready to toss my C84.
I never leave it on when it's not doing a job.
I do not live in an environment of low humidity.
I cover my printer.

What are the results?
Banding and streaks.

I have tried the Windex treatment on the foam pads
that the heads rest on. Also several cleaning cycles
wasting a lot of ink.

I had to scrap a C86 for the same reason.

Besides tossing the C84 and buying a HP,
does anyone have advice?

Thanks Much,

Larry

 

[Davy]

Well I had problems with two C62's that was forever clogging with OE
ink

So I was hell bent on a change and bought a Canon ip5000, they'e
pretty good printers. The C62 clogged on the 2nd day and th
replacement sometime later clogged on the 4th day, the Canon, loosin
count now some four months old I guess has never clogged nor wanted
manual head clean and far more economical

The ink tanks are clear and they are not chipped, you can see the in
inside them

Before deciding on ANY printer have a look at user comments on variou
shopping sites, look in various forums for the least troublesome an
you will soon form a conclusion and review the cost of it's in
cartridge

You'll see reviews on Tom's Hardware Guide, Steves Digicams an
Photo-i

Again it all depends what you want a printer for, just photos, tex
docs or graphics, or one that will do all these

I say Canon ip4000 or the ip5000, it's a good 'all round printer'

Dav

 

[Elmo P. Shagnasty]

I'm ready to toss my C84.
I never leave it on when it's not doing a job.
I do not live in an environment of low humidity.
I cover my printer.

What are the results?
Banding and streaks.

Hmmmm. I leave mine on, I don't cover it, and I use it rarely. Yet my
C84 works great--better than I ever expected. No banding or streaks
whatsoever.

 

[Elmo P. Shagnasty]

I say Canon ip4000 or the ip5000, it's a good 'all round printer'.

But can I plug a pocket print server in and make it a standalone network
printer?

That's how I use my C84.

 

[Jan Alter]

OK it's confession time. I've been running Epsons at our school since '99.
Of the 35 Epson 740's that I put into service 28 of them are still going.
They would occasionally clog but they always unclogged as well. None of them
died from a clog. It was usually a circuit board failure or paper feed
problem.
Three years ago I put 14 Epson 880's in classrooms. They're all still
going and rarely clog for more than one to three head cleanings.
A couple of years ago we put in about six C80's and a couple of C-82's.
They've been fine with an occasional clog but all clearable.
In the past year and a half I've hooked up maybe eight C-84's, and at
this point I've dealt with four or five major clogs on three of them. One
has a totally clogged black and another a clogged red. I should mention that
after all these machines ran out of the OEM ink I started using third party
ink. I've used the same company's ink for the last two years (InkTec).
What's of equal notation is that a set of black and color cartridges for
these machines costs us $7.
At home I just spent lots of hours trying to clean the heads of a C-84
that I bought our 10 year old a year ago. She unfortunately did not print
with it and despite me rubbing the underside with rags and injecting windex
through each ink nipple at least 5 times over a week nothing changed. I
replaced her ink with ink I'd gotten from MSI (also third party) but
considered reliable by many. I should mention that my other daughter has a
C-84 and I was able to clear hers when it clogged a few weeks ago. It runs
with the eexception of two or three nozzles that don't clear entirely. If I
run it in FINE high quality mode the text will come out OK. Never came
across a machine model that was so stubborn to cleaning its heads.
Obviously this model is the worst Epson has produced from this user's
stand. What's more painful about this picture is that I have more than a
dozen brand new C-84's sitting in their boxes under some tables that we
bought for the school over a year ago to install when the 740's and the
880's conk out. I feel sometimes that someone has played a trick on me.
Those 740's and 880's have turned out to be some of the best machines Epson
ever produced. I'd happily buy another dozen 880's if I could get my hands
on them.
I think I learned to depend on the Epsons like I learned to depend on a
VW beetle back in the 70's. Then when I bought a VW rabbit all hell broke
loose and it was the worst car I ever owned with alternators and exhaust
systems going faster than a solar eclipse comes around. That's about how I
feel now about Epson's new line of C-84 printers. My guess is the C-86 is
just as clog prone with the same design and same ink cartridge.
At this point I'm starting to feel inclined to try one of those Canon
printers. Maybe they learned a few things from Epson four or five years ago
and are using the dependability feature to hallmark their current models.

By the way, I don't take this all that seriously. It's just life. You have
good days and bad ones. Try to learn from the bad ones so you have more
good.

 

[measekite]

OK it's *confession time*. I've been running Epsons *at our school* since '99.
Of the 35 Epson 740's that I put into service 28 of them are still going.
They would *occasionally clog* but they always unclogged as well. None of them
died from a clog. It was usually a circuit board failure or paper feed
problem.
Three years ago I put 14 Epson 880's in classrooms. They're all still
going and rarely clog for more than one to three head cleanings.
A couple of years ago we put in about six C80's and a couple of C-82's.
They've been fine with an *occasional clog* but all clearable.
In the past year and a half I've hooked up maybe eight C-84's, and at
this point I've dealt with *four or five major clogs* on three of them. One
has a totally clogged black and another a clogged red. I should mention that
after all these machines ran out of the OEM ink I started using *third party*
ink. I've used the same company's ink for the last two years .
What's of equal notation is that a set of black and color cartridges for
these machines costs us $7.

NO WONDER

At home I just spent *lots of hours trying to clean the heads* of a C-84
that I bought our 10 year old a year ago. She unfortunately did not print
with it and despite me rubbing the underside with rags and injecting windex
through each ink nipple at least 5 times over a week nothing changed. I
replaced her ink with ink I'd gotten from (also third party) but
considered reliable by many. I should mention that my other daughter has a
C-84 and I was able to clear hers when it clogged a few weeks ago. It runs
with the *eexception of two or three nozzles that don't clear *entirely. If I
run it in FINE high quality mode the text will come out OK. Never came
across a machine model that was so stubborn to cleaning its heads.
Obviously this model is the worst Epson has produced from this user's
stand.

TRY EPSON OEM INK

What's more painful about this picture is that I have more than a
dozen brand new C-84's sitting in their boxes under some tables that we
bought for the school over a year ago to install when the 740's and the
880's conk out. I feel sometimes that someone has played a trick on me.
Those 740's and 880's have turned out to be some of the best machines Epson
ever produced. I'd happily buy another dozen 880's if I could get my hands
on them.
I think I learned to depend on the Epsons like I learned to depend on a
VW beetle back in the 70's. Then when I bought a VW rabbit all hell broke
loose and it was the worst car I ever owned with alternators and exhaust
systems going faster than a solar eclipse comes around. That's about how I
feel now about Epson's new line of C-84 printers. My guess is the C-86 is
just as clog prone with the same design and same ink cartridge.
At this point I'm starting to feel inclined to try one of those Canon
printers.

IT WILL NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE UNLESS YOU USE CANON OEM INK

 

[Arthur Entlich]

Yes, it probably requires some underhead cleaning, and maybe some
cleaning cartridges. In some cases the vacuum purge tube has been known
to detach.

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