Epson Stylus C60

I don't know if its me or just cheap replacement ink cartridges but I have had endless problems with this printer. At the end of the day I think this printer has been the worst in my experience for cheap colour ink jet printers for this buyer. Works ok at first with proprietary ink cartridges but when replacements cost 50-75% if the price of the hardware questions must be asked. Please just give me a reliable black ink letter printer.

Nothing good for me to say apart from cheap compatible cartridge availability.

A waste of money in my opinion, buy something better that will last longer and not need so much maintenance or repairs!

Excellent value for money. Doubt if you could buy one new now though. If you can pick up a second hand one cheap it will make an excellent starter machine.

Please save your money and just copy your documents from your computer screen by hand. That's what I do now that I own an Epson Stylus C60 Inkjet Printer.

I have to lean the paper up against a wall or hold it by hand to get it to go through. Even so, too many sheets or too few sheets can cause jams. I consider myself lucky if it feeds two or three sheets through at a time but at least prints on the top one. Often times difficulties with paper feed lead to smeared documents for up to six pages after the misfed one.

It refuses to print files from Adobe Reader (I'm using Mac OSX v.10.3.3) without any explanation. The driver it came with was faulty, but Epson replaced it with an update after I spent ages on the phone with them. Their customer support for the Adobe Reader problem has been pitiful.

The cartridges are very expensive, and although I generally just need to print black and white documents, the printer won't work without a color cartridge, complete with ink (I tried an empty, but couldn't fool it!). On the rare occasion that I do print something in color, I've found that it has difficulties lining up the colors correctly. After using the utility to adjust the alignment three times, only making it worse, I gave up. This is with brand new Epson print cartridges.

If you're still not convinced, the thing is as loud as the printer I was using in 1986. At least it's pretty cheap.

This is the fourth Epson Stylus C60 I have had in 18 months - on each occasion Epson had to replace the printer free of charge because of mechanical faults. The courier who delivers the replacements says that a lot of his deliveries are replacement Epson printers - this says a lot for Epson quality! In fact I did not even buy this printer - it was supplied as an upgrade by Epson because the Stylus 680 I bought had itself broken down and been replaced four times in a year - just in normal home use.

I have another eight-year old Epson printer that still works well - but the quality now seems to be so poor that I have decided to give up on the C60 as the printer has broken down again (apprently it needs servicing - 8 months after supply!) and I will replace it with a non-Epson product.

I have informed Epson that I will never buy another Epsom product - they did not seem concerned!

The printer works OK, but if the printer won't work if one cartridge is empty, I'll replace the printer with something else. At $50 for Epson cartridges and if you don't use Epson they say your warrantee is void. I have had this printer for just one year now. I guess Ill give another manufacturer a try now. Can't be worse?

Based on my experience with the Epson Stylus c60 inkjet printer, I will never buy another epson product. I have learned my lesson, Never buy a cheap Epson printer. You will get what you paid for!!

If I had known about the Chip on the Epson Stylus C60 ink cartridge I would never have bought this inkjet printer. What a rip off! Epson should be ashamed of this scam. I will never by another epson product again.

Never had an inkjetprinter before (except an Apple Color StyleWriter 1500; but that doesn't count as a 'real' printer for me). Setting up this Epson Stylus C60 inkjet printer is easy and it works right away without any problems right out the box (on my Apple PowerBook with OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.1.3).

Straight b&w printing of letters an A4 is fast; photo's are lasting a bit long but the quality is great compared to it's price. On the other hand; the cartridges are way too expensive. Epson should do something about that (two sets of color and black cartridges are more expensive than the printer).

Photo's look great; it's a good thing to try some different papers. And better paper uses less ink, so it saves mony in the end.

The printer is a bit big; according to the pictures on the net I didn't expect such a large casing. Maybe next time Epson can release pictures with some material on the desk with the printer so this can be an indication of ht's size.

Overall: great prints for such a 'cheap' printer. If you have the mony consider the C70; it has seperate ink cartridges for cyan, magenta, yellow and black which can save money.

[ Ger Nijkamp ]

Well a little on me, i have repaired printers for about 5 years and have sold computers and printers and this printer is good value for its dollar.

The C60 is a compact, easy to use printer. One thing with epson - the colour managment is great and works well.

This printer prints high quality prints from a digital camera and the photo selection settings in the advance settings is what you need to know but only once.

With all printers you need to do some test prints to see your best settings and then stick by them or you will be changing all the time and then it is a waste of time.

As i mentioned the epsons always have their head built into the unit, compared with the canon which you can replace.

But saying that the head can be removed easy if you are careful, And the cost is about the same as a canon head anyway. If you're stuck with an epson that has a glued up head you could remove it and place the head on a damp piece of cloth for about an hour and then put it back and go though the head cleaning operation as this will clear it out.

The epson had always been a leader and i must admit have had problems with their heads blocking up or they get an air gap in the cartridge, which shows up as "out of ink". You can get over this by taking out the ink cartridge and banging it on a table "right way up " til the ink comes out on some paper, Then replace it and clean again..

All inkjets need to be used often or the ink drys up .

As for the C60 it's a quick cost effective printer with great quality. It does have a chip on the cartridge for ink detailed ink level, So if you don't refill them you will have to buy oem ..

If you want a cheap quality photo print ,, get one ..