This printer worked like a charm until the warranty ran out. Then the black ink head plugged, wouldnt clean no matter how hard I tried. Epson want $9.95 to talk to me. I did get online email support, and they told me its messed up and I can pay them to repair it.

Its cheaper to buy a new printer! Now Im stuck with two new black ink cartridges I installed (thinking one must have been defective) that puts me out another $50.

Forget Epson. Stay away from the C84. It was good while it lasted albeit a short time. Just not worth the trouble.

This printer lasted just over one year before all of the print heads clogged. Naturally, the warranty had just expired. I won't ever buy an Epson again. Quality has declined rapidly in recent years. Buyers beware of the new C86 printer as well. Same basic printer. Same basic problems.

Went through a set of cartridges. I replaced them and bought another set. Unit died as soon as it was too late to return that unused ink to the store - it worked less than a year.
No Epson, no more, no way!

I was sold on the Epson Stylus C84 while shopping for a printer. The other Epson I had for 1 year broke down. I also had to keep in mincd what would be compatable for my pc (another issue!). I do alot of print archieving and wanted quality prints. This seemed to be the most logical solution for it's price and ability. It also had a double black catridge to last longer than the slim ones, I was told. Like one of the reviewers here wrote, you cannot use the black only when printing.


It does take aproximately 6 months before "the curse" takes place. Ink not evenly flowing and clogging up the printer with no way to clean and fix it. It becomes tempermental and prints when It wants to print! But most importantly, it costs approximately $60 to replace the ink every 4-6 weeks! It would be cheaper to buy an Epson printer every time the ink ran out instead of replacing the ink! And by the way the Epson printers work, you would also be better off!



Not sure which printer I will buy next, but Epson lost it's chance. The company could send me one for free and I would return it.

I bought this printer because i wasn't looking for extremely high quality, i just wanted something to print out the occasional color print and mostly black ink spreadsheets and documents. it turns out that when one color ink runs out, YOU CAN'T EVEN PRINT IN BLACK INK ONLY!!!!!! Why should i have to spend money on color ink i am not going to use just so i can print stuff in black ink??????????