Epson Stylus Photo TX810FW

Dead right after warrany ended – Fax and scanner are working fine - except printer. Recently the problems started with getting a single magenta line per head movement even if I print only black and white. This is not caused by a blocked jet, it is rater a faulty print head that has one nozzle always on. currently I am having 4 magenta lines on the paper. Apart of that, replacing the ink cartridges twice costs roughly the same as a new printer and they don't last long because of frequent cleaning cycles required to keep the printheads in good condition.

The device has a flimsy touch and feel and I would not buy it again. duplex, Ethernet port Printer, design, relability, running cost, short life span

Poor build design – I was convinced to purchase this printer because of positive reviews, inc. Choice magazine's. I regret that now. As soon as I saw it, I was concerned about the build design and quality, esp. in relation to the bits that moved eg the feed mechanisms. Then it took an email or two to Epson to get the bonus duplexer, six weeks late. It is noisy, no tparticularly fast, and seems to require cleaning frequently, esp. if you haven't used it for a while But teh worst problem is the flimsy feed mechanisms. The CD/DVD feed works sometimes, which means it ruins disks other times by printing in the wrong places (no, not a software problem). The duplexer malfunctions sometimes. But the worst is that the photo paper feed does not work at all any more. It tries to grab the paper and just grinds away. I've looked and there si nothing I can do to fix it. So I have lots of photos and lots of print paper but no way to print photos. So I have a printer that can't print photos, ansd is only fair on its other functions. No more Epsons for me. It looks nice, but it doesn't do what it should do. Flimsy, noisy, slow, broken photo feed. Looks nice, smallish footprint. Wifi seems to work.