My Epson-777 printer died for good, after two very usefull years.
Now I just found out that EPSON ink cartriges can only be used by one kind of printer and I'm stuck with 5 color and 4 black cartrigdes I cannot return, this is about 200 dlls.
Now I change to a HEWLETT PACKARD, with their printers you can use the same kind of ink cartriges on several kind of printers. Hopefully I won't end up with another 200 dlls. waist.

I don't use the printer a lot. My work is largely limited to printing text but I seem to replace the color cartridges every few months. The price here is better than an office supply store but still expensive. The color is beautiful, near photo quality on photo paper. The printer will not let you print black and white text if you are out of *color* ink.

My printer came with my Home Internet Appliance, so I didn't CHOOSE it. I've tried compatible cartridges, but the color is wierd, so you really have no choice but to buy Epson Genuine Cartridges. I think they personally sell their printers at reasonable prices, and then "GET" you on the ink jet cartridges. As everyone else has stated, you do not get the promised amount of pages per cartridge.

Everyone keeps complaining that the cartridge is expensive and they can't use generic. Sadly, thas becoming the industry standard--you can't blame this one printer. I have to print pages and pages of detailed notes and figures every day and I haven't had to replace the ink more than once so far.

The ink saver setting is very faint.

You receive the expected wonderful quality from this Epson product, but the price is standard for the name. I would recommend that you look into a Epson printer that offers a generic cartridge to replace the orginal. In the long run it will be more economical to use. The chip in this cartridge makes it impossible to duplicate in a generic line. Generic brands are sometimes more than half price of the orginal Epson brand cartridges.