Epson WorkForce 310 Color Inkjet All-in-One Printer (C11CA49201)

Update 3/2/10 - Felt it only fair to update to say that while this is still an excellent machine for the price, I have already moved on to another. I purchased the 310 in August 2009, and would've loved to have had the Artisan 800, but the price (around 300), issues (a large number of quality complaints, jams, errors, etc) and lack of some features (no scan to pc unless it was hooked up via USB, no fax memory, no fax from pc) - made the 800 a bad choice and something I didn't want to get when there was this 80 dollar AIO that had those features, even it was lacking in the photo print quality. Fast forward to 2010 and we now have an updated Artisan 810 that has improved quality and the features I want, and I caught it at a great price (reduced further with my amazon visa points). The best way to get what you want for the price on amazon is to put it in your cart and visit your cart daily - it'll tell you of any price changes.

Again, this is a great, low cost, AIO, with...Read more

Pros:

Fast, inexpensive, individual inks, networked, quality feel, good print quality.

New genuine Epson ink is relatively cheap (best value is 68 high capacity two-pack).

Cons:

Not an ink miser, but you can print draft/economy. Average ink usage.

Loud startup/paper feed, but it has a "quiet" mode setting that helps some.


Had it about a month now, no issues.

Be sure to not overfill paper input tray. Too much paper = paperjam

This Epson's not what I thought it would be after all. Whenever only "one" ink cartridge runs out, it stops printing all together, which is stupid. At least it could give me the option of printing in plain b&w, but it doesn't. It just shuts down ALL printing functions from ONE cartridge.

So for instance, right now the Magenta cartridge is empty. Well, ya don't need Magenta to print in black only, right? So what's the deal? Nope, can't default it over to just black. Stupid, stupid, stupid.