Color me impressed
I used to have a love-hate relationship with Epson printers - love their image quality, hate the way they dry up and clog if you don't run them every few days even if you turn them off to make sure the printer heads park. I threw the last one out a few weeks ago.
Then I realized I also had a Lexmark Z1300 I'd picked up at Big Lots last year for less than the cost of an ink cartridge for it that I'd had sitting off to the side after sticking the carts in and printing a few pages, so I decided to see it worked or if it was also ready for the trash.
It works perfectly. Despite having been untouched for at least eight months. Photo quality not as good as the Epson, but regular paper printing is bright and clean... hell, while the Epsons always churned out great stuff on photo glossy paper, they always seemed to have a problem with printing on regular. And with digital prints available at just about every grocery store and pharmacy nowadays, high-end printing at home isn't really an issue anymore.
Only real catch for the 1300 is that it's one of those types where the colors are all-in-one rather than individual cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges.
Then I realized I also had a Lexmark Z1300 I'd picked up at Big Lots last year for less than the cost of an ink cartridge for it that I'd had sitting off to the side after sticking the carts in and printing a few pages, so I decided to see it worked or if it was also ready for the trash.
It works perfectly. Despite having been untouched for at least eight months. Photo quality not as good as the Epson, but regular paper printing is bright and clean... hell, while the Epsons always churned out great stuff on photo glossy paper, they always seemed to have a problem with printing on regular. And with digital prints available at just about every grocery store and pharmacy nowadays, high-end printing at home isn't really an issue anymore.
Only real catch for the 1300 is that it's one of those types where the colors are all-in-one rather than individual cyan, magenta and yellow cartridges.