Epson All- in-One Printer Scanner Review

I bought this Epson three-in-one printer scanner copier to replace an inkjet printer that bit the dust.  I had a separate flatbed scanner that was fully functional, but I am limited on desktop space.  The convenience of a 3-in-1 is obvious, and the price was reasonable enough to justify replacing the perfectly good scanner. 

I had good experience with Epson printers over the years, beginning with a superb laser printer back in the "old days".  A previous Epson inkjet printer had been one of the better inkjet printers I had used, and with that older model I had found some good quality no-name brand ink cartridges that worked in it just fine.

While the quality of the copies, scans, and printed material is just fine with this model, I am disappointed with the amount of ink it uses.  I again started buying the no-name ink cartridges for it, and they worked at first, but seemed to run out of ink in no time.  And I often had to clean the nozzles when I replaced a cartridge.  I went back to the genuine Epson cartridges, thinking the problem was with the knockoff cartridges, but it still seems to use a LOT of ink very rapidly.

I also dislike the fact that the printer will not print if ANY ink cartridge is empty.  When I am only interested in printing a black and white document, it is very annoying to have to replace one of the three color cartridges for the printer to work!  And most of the time, I am only printing black and white documents...

I will have to say the cartridges are still cheaper than Hewlett-Packard, though!