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Dear Epson
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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I've been having problems with my CX5400. One came with each of my 15" G4 powerbooks, one for work one for home. After about a year and a half the work printer stopped printing legibly, i tried all the head cleaning/alignment nonsense to no avail. So today I brought in my unused printer from home. This is where the fun starts.
The Work printer was named CX5400, the printer from home was named CX5400-1.
With the CX5400-1 (home) printer plugged in, and the CX5400 (work) printer selected to print from, I get the same errors as the old printer. Printing the same document with CX5400-1 (home) selected prints correctly.
Did I explain this well enough, and
Is my tinfoil hat to tight?
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Dear jeffB.
Throw the **** out and buy a Canon.
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"She's gone from suck to blow!"
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
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I agree Epson inkjets are crap although I love my Epson Aculaser C4100 but that's mostly because it cost me £2.20 (not a typo), had 100 page count and almost completely full comsumables.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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Dear Epson,
SUCK MY NUTS!
My mom's CX5400 (which I purchased for her as a gift) died after about a year of being treated excellently and not being used enough. Fark Epsons if they can't take NOT being used.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Dear Epson:
Please consider hiring software *engineers* rather than the trained chimpanzees you currently appear to have writing your drivers.
That goes for scanners, too.
It's difficult to support clients when your only option is to recommend throwing out gear and buying a Canon.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New York City
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I, too, gave up on Epsons a while back. I just keep hearing about their printers dying...
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MacBook 2GHz - C2D - 8GB - GF 9400M
Mac mini 2.33GHz C2D - 4GB - GMA950 - 2 Drobos - SS4200 (unRAID)
iPhone 5 + iPhone 4 S⃣
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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By the looks of this thread I would think that I'm the only one that has never had a problem w/ epson stuff, I have an old SC740i and SP R320 and a Perfection 2480 scanner, all have been great and trouble free.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: If I tellz ya, then I gotsta killz ya !
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Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the Epson 740 I bought (new) in 1999 is still working as well today as the day I got it. And so is the large format SP 1280 I bought (used) in 2002, AND the same for my perfection 1250 scanner.........notta problemos 
Also, I have recently found that using the OpenSource Gutenprint drivers for the 1280 gives me WAY more finely-tuned controls than either Epsons or OS X's stock drivers ever did.
As for the OP's problem, it sounds like an extremely borked preference and/or temp spool file problem. Dumping both and restarting may help 
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Personally I find it hilarious that you have the hots for my gramma. Especially seeins how she is 3x your age, and makes your Brittney-Spears-wannabe 30-something wife look like a rag doll who went thru WWIII with a burning stick of dynamite up her a** :)
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Oct 2005
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I agree that their consumer printers are terrible, but the higher-up ones are brilliant. Me is loving my R2400 still. I just need to remember to turn it on every few days so the heads stay clean.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Originally Posted by gnomexp
I agree that their consumer printers are terrible, but the higher-up ones are brilliant Me is loving my R2400 still. I just need to remember to turn it on every few days so the heads stay clean.
I totally agree with that the "C" class is crap, but it isn't any worse than a cheap HP or Lexmark.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2003
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It's funny I've been using a 740i for almost 10 years and it still prints great and I've never had a single problem. A lot of people on these boards seem to have bad luck with Epson products, but this printer has been great to me.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Originally Posted by bowwowman
Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the Epson 740 I bought (new) in 1999 is still working as well today as the day I got it. And so is the large format SP 1280 I bought (used) in 2002, AND the same for my perfection 1250 scanner.........notta problemos
same here, only with an SP 1270 (bought new in '99), a 740, and a C40 (both bought new). no problems whatsoever. and i'm using the standard Epson drivers. although those Gutenprint drivers look nice, i'll have to try them out on my 1270.
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