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Epson Surecolor P 600 A3+ Printer
alangubbay:
I have recently bought this printer and I am quite devastated by the massive ink consumption. Even if I do not use the machine for one day it goes through the whole cleaning process and and wastes ink. One can see the levels going down. So far it has cost some $150 for a few small prints! I have used Epson printers for many years but but have never encountered this before. Epson do not argue when I threaten to junk the machine. Has anyone else come across this?
Alan
MHMG:
Many of us can't even buy one yet. Not shipping in USA until February or March, 2015 ;)
dseelig:
epson always does this terrible company, my epson 7600 did this years ago, I wonder if it is getting worse.
Mark D Segal:
--- Quote from: alangubbay on January 04, 2015, 12:20:50 pm ---I have recently bought this printer and I am quite devastated by the massive ink consumption. Even if I do not use the machine for one day it goes through the whole cleaning process and and wastes ink. One can see the levels going down. So far it has cost some $150 for a few small prints! I have used Epson printers for many years but but have never encountered this before. Epson do not argue when I threaten to junk the machine. Has anyone else come across this?
Alan
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I know nothing about this printer, so what I say here may be wrong. Judging from my experience with a suite of previous Epson professional printers, the initial charge-up of ink draws down a lot out of the cartridges, but much of that ink fills the lines and is still used for printing. Some goes into the waste tank. I don't know the split. As for the automatic cleaning cycles, every time I got a new printer one of the first things I did was to switch all that stuff OFF. I do a nozzle check before each printing session. If there are clogged nozzles I clean them and then do a manual nozzle check to be sure. This is a "clean if necessary but don't necessarily clean" approach, which saves a lot of time and money and works. But I repeat - not sure how relevant any of this is to the new technology.
Stefan Ohlsson:
--- Quote from: Mark D Segal on January 04, 2015, 01:59:34 pm ---I know nothing about this printer, so what I say here may be wrong. Judging from my experience with a suite of previous Epson professional printers, the initial charge-up of ink draws down a lot out of the cartridges, but much of that ink fills the lines and is still used for printing. Some goes into the waste tank. I don't know the split. As for the automatic cleaning cycles, every time I got a new printer one of the first things I did was to switch all that stuff OFF. I do a nozzle check before each printing session. If there are clogged nozzles I clean them and then do a manual nozzle check to be sure. This is a "clean if necessary but don't necessarily clean" approach, which saves a lot of time and money and works. But I repeat - not sure how relevant any of this is to the new technology.
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As this is an amateur printer, there is no way to turn off the nozzle check. But my printer doesn't go through that cycle that I'm used from my older x900 printers before I did the same as you, Mark, that is to shut off all this automatic cleaning. I haven't experienced any clogging problem during the month that I've been printing with the SC P600, except once. Very easy to fix, took just one cleaning to get rid of that.
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