Epson Stylus C62

Terrible in my opinion. I don't recommend the Epson C62 inkjet printer. This has been a nightmare since it came out of the box I feel for me, Can't seem to read cartridges, issues setting up, takes forever to start up in my experience.. infact the only good point for me is it prints at a passable speed.

If you stick to non-EPSON cartridges (they are, in my opinion as good as the EPSON ones) and print at least one a week (requires less ink-cleans) then the Epson C62 is a very reliable printer, one of which I have had for 3 years now.

The Epson C62 printer is good, like most Epson printers. But cartridges are not available in Sri Lanka at the agents or even at Coletty's Computer Superstore.

I have had an Epson C62 inkjet printer for several years, and never had a problem except for the ink level gauge.

The woe of Epson (C62):

My Epson C62 printer started to give me trouble about six months after purchasing it so I contacted Epson, after a few tests with their technical team and after wasting a vast amount of ink from their genuine ink tanks I was advised to take it to a local Epson dealer. "Print heads" said the dealer as though I had been printing on sandpaper....! He duly give me a replacement and literally threw the C62 straight into the nearest bin, I repeat "threw it", the replacement was of course minus the ink tanks and when I got home minus the guarantee and receipt of purchase documents.

The problem was black lines on picture with a yellow cast about 1" from the left hand side and along the bottom of the picture, as though in a frame. The normal black & white text consisted of either blue or red straight lines through the text - sometimes these were broken, the lines could not have been more straighter if a ruler had been used with a coloured pen. The higher the settings in the printer on-screen driver settings made matters more worse.

The replacement printer has started to produce exactly the same effects. I had to contact Epson several times before getting a response. I expect to get at least 12 months of trouble free service from a brand new purchase (excluding print head cleaning), certainly not the case here.

The printer is nothing but a "noisy ink guzzler", it consumes ink at an alarming rate - even if it is not being used, and regularly goes through a cleaning routine when powered up, when it is working correctly the print quality is acceptable as a general purpose all round printer. The cartridges are not exactly cheap either, the 'Intellichip' as I believe Epson calls it, to you and me the 'chipped cartridges' is a sales gimmick to boost the Epson cartridge sales - BE WARNED it does not monitor the amount of ink in the tanks BUT only ESTIMATES the amount of ink remaining by presumably counting down the number of times the heads are 'in operation' - there is no direct feedback or monitoring between the chip and the ink level (as in a petrol/oil/water level gauge as in a car).

To be honest, purchasing a set of cartridges for an Epson, one could purchase a Lexmark printer complete with cartridges every time you wanted a 'refill'. My advice when buying a printer is keep away from 'Chipped Cartridges' and Epson's peizo print heads, I am now beginning to think that 'long life peizo heads' is also another sales gimmick - basically like a crystal in an oscillator stage of a receiver or transmitter, the heads are vibrating to squirt the ink and crystals do crack when driven hard, if this is the actual fault I cannot say, another thing I suspect is the sealing around the head where it's clamped to the base unit (like that of a picture in a mounting frame).

The help I got from Epson was only on the first occasion, they did not want to know the second time around, why is it that two identical products developed the same faults ?

The local dealer has now stopped repairing Epson printers - this alone says a lot.

Goodbye Epson.... I will never buy ANY Epson products again !

I have just received a letter from Epson today, I quote.

'The ink cartridges are chipped because Epson printers contain a permanent piezo print head. If the print head runs dry. i.e if the cartridge runs out of ink, air bubbles will enter the print head and will permanently damage it'. UNQUOTE.

This to me say's for WHATEVER REASON air bubbles enter the head they will be DAMAGED.

I bought the Epson C62 after spending a good while comparing features with other printers. It appeared competitively priced and I thought Epson was a trusted brand. It has proved to be an expensive mistake. It costs a fortune for cartridges and often refuses to work for no apparent reason. The photos that I have printed out have not been the best quality and any text that I now print is streaked with lines despite following maintenance instructions and completing nozzle cleaning etc. In summary, this printer is rubbish.

I've used the Epson C62 for 6 months and I can honestly say it's not worth it. Admittedly the quality printing, both colour & black & white is not bad. However, it drinks toner, stops & wastes it repeatedly. Paper jams are common and once it leaked toner everywhere as a result. Now it has packed up altogether. Really nasty build quality - I can't stand firms that pass off this sort of garbage as acceptable. I'm never using Epson again after this wretched experience. Get the picture?

Epson's own refills are expensive, so like a lot of other people I used compatible refills which the C62 printer kept on refusing to acknowledge, and in consequence point blank refused to work.

It went dead on me many times, and I kept on having to uninstall and reinstall the driver which was frustrating and time wasting.

I would never ever have an Epson printer again for as long as I live....the only reason why I bought it in the first instance was that the reviews at that time were good, but it all goes to prove that you should not believe all that you see.

What a load of tosh the Epson C62 Inkjet Printer is, I had an old Epson and it lasted me ages. When it finally gave up I thought nothing of getting another expecting the same quality, ha, Canon, here I come.

Constantly having to clean heads makes this Epson C62 a very expensive printer to run. Very unpredictable quality. I have left the printer to do a set of photos - having checked that the first page was acceptable and returned to find one reasonable page and six with a strong magenta cast. This is my third Epson and my last!