Epson D88 Printer Problems

[David McDonald]

Can’t help with an alternative printer recomendation but just to second what you are saying – on some Epson printers there seems to be a limited number of times you can run the cleaning cycle before some sort of reservoir gets saturated and the cleaning ceases to work and you may as well bin the printer!

[Steve Underhill]

Buy a pack of original EPSON photo paper, and some of their normal quality paper, then if the ink clogs, ring them and tell them your heads are clogged and you only ever use original ink and paper, then they will send an engineer to replace it.

if you admit to using anyhting other than original epson ink or paper they will not even entertain the thought of a warranty claim.
If your printers 4 months old then you have 8 months of as many replacements as they can ship out you are perfectly entiltled to, I know I have 6 epson printers and wish I could get a system for another brand of printer, Dye sub, transfers etc all use epson stuff so weree screwed really so long as you keep the original ink carts and have a pack of paper there youre fine, just dont admit to using 3rd party products.
I also run a computer repair shop so have had plenty of dealings with epson and their lame after sales support.

[spidergirl]

Hi! 🙂

Thanks! I sent Epson a snotty email earlier! (:)

Fortunately I have managed to keep the old cartridges and also wisely bought some printer insurance from PC World with the newest D88. It looks like I will have to continuously swap printers every few months like you advised. Great for the environment or what!

Thanks for your help! Lets hope one of the other printer manufacturers start to make better stuff soon! *fingers crossed*

Spidergirl 😀

[Steve Underhill]

Also if you can get to it through the back on any epson printer, there is a little hatch secured by a screw, under that is a chunk of cotton padding and under that is a tube, this tube is the tube thatcarries the ink used in cleaning cycles to a big pad under the actual printer mechanism, when this pad is full you get the "end of servicable life" message and the printer wont print, if you can just pull the tube from the back and attach it externally to a container with a sponge or suchlike in it and youll never get the message.
It willsave loads of warranty claims if you use the cleaning cycle a lot.
best place to check for any particular model are the internet forums just google the search term thats how we found it.

[spidergirl]

Thank you for the advice! 😀 I’ll have a fiddle about with it and see what I can discover!

Spidergirl 😀

[Andrew McCreadie]

Hi Spidergirl

Not sure if this is relevant to your D88 question.
I have 6 epson printers 2 x 4000 2 x950 and 2 x R300 but I have the ssc epson printer utility installed which gives you plenty of more options to control your printers .
I have also had the dreaded "you re printer is near the end of its service life" alert coming up but the ssc utility quickly discards this.

Here’s link for utility if you’re interested.

http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

Regards Andy

[spidergirl]

Hi Andy

WOW! Thanks for the link! 😀 I’ve got the programme running and I’m sure it’s going to help lots! It gives you much more control over the printer doesn’t it?

I’ve just got my 3rd replacement D88 today and hoping that this one will last out a bit longer with the new programme.

I just need a decent CISS now to save on ink. I’ve seen some on ebay. Do you think these are best avoided at all costs or has anyone had any joy with them? They claim to contain high quality pigment ink…

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=001&item=110006713724&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Spidergirl 😀