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I really liked this printer until it came time to replace the ink cartridges. When I need to buy a printer I look at the prices of the cartridges, and the ones for this printer were very cheap. However, I soon discovered that the greedy dirt bags at Epson have gone to VERY great lengths to make sure you can't use the inexpensive after-market cartridges and can only use their way overpriced genuine Epson ones. I found on Amazon a pack of aftermarket ones that cost $14 for 4 black and two each of the other colors, but the printer won't "recognize" these even though it has the same cartridge number. So instead of getting 10 aftermarket cartridges you can buy one genuine Epson cartridge for the same price. Talk about gouging! I wish I had known this before I bought it. Maybe other brands are like this also, but I will never will get anything with the Epson name again.