Printers : Epson Stylus Photo R260

If you buy the Epson R260 (or any other Epson printer) you better live close to the Ink Store and have a lot of money in your wallet. The ink costs about $80 for all 6 cartridges. I print only an average of 5 pages a day (each page consists of two 3 x 5 color photos). The $80 cartridges lasted only 1 month. Where you use (waste) most of the ink is in the automatic head cleaning cycle that the Epson R260 does. It seams like it does the head cleaning trick about every 3 or 4 days (about 20 pages). I would say that this cleaning wastes about 10% of your ink every time it cleans the heads. So for every $80 ink cartridge set I would estimate that 50% is wasted in the automatic head cleaning cycle. I looked to see if there was any way to turn off the auto head cleaning trick but after hours of trying came up with nothing. In conclusion, when my Epson R260 uses up the current ink cartridges (any minute now) it is going in the Trash ! Hide Full Review

I am very disappointed with this product. The amount I have spent in ink is outrageous. Epson has made a money maker in this product because if one color runs low the whole printer will stop and you have to purchase that cartridge before it will resume. The cost of the ink cartridges are very high. For example, say you just want to print in black but ran out of the Cyan color your out of luck printing until you purchase another Cyan. Also, Epson has put in chips in the tiny ink cartridges that shuts down the printer when the ink is low but not completely out. I could have bought a very expensive printer in what I have spent in this money machine. Hide Full Review