> Moral of this overly-long story: Epson refurbs are cool in my book.  :)

Good to hear John.

Kenneth Waller

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Subject: Re: Pop goes the Epson 2200


>> Paul, FWIW, check out the clearance center on Epson's site. They 
>> currently
>> have a refurbished 2200 for
>> $447.
>> http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/BuyEpson/ccProductCategory.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=-13267
>
> A vote of confidence for refurb'd Epsons:
>
> The 2200 I have now was an Epson refurb that my former boss got for free
> from MediaStreet, in order to demo their Niagara ink bottle system (it's
> crap, by the way.  Their colors never came out right, and the heads 
> clogged
> frequently).  Eventually, the store stopped trying to sell the system 
> (only
> a couple people bought it, thankfully), but we still had a bunch of ink 
> and
> this 2200 sitting around.
>
> So I removed the MediaStreet Niagara system and used the original Epson 
> inks
> to clear the heads.  I also used a ton of Q-tips soaked in alcohol or
> Formula409 (an Epson rep recommended the latter) to clean the heads and
> anything else that had ink on it (that MediaStreet shit got EVERYwhere).
>
> Now it works nearly flawlessly.
>
> Moral of this overly-long story: Epson refurbs are cool in my book.  :)
>
> John


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