To cut a long story short I needed to print 10 pages of text for a friend of mine, fine I thought, ill use my new Epson Inkjet printer which I had bought only a few months previously. So I set it to use black Ink only, not wanting to waste any colour Ink and off it goes.
Two pages in it says I’m out of black ink, fine I thought, looks like I’ll have to use the colour ink after all, no you bloody won’t it said, buy a new black ink cartridge now or I’ll print sod all. Yep that’s right my frigging printer is holding me to ransom, unless I buy a new black ink cartridge it will refuse to print anything even though my colour cartridges are nearly full.
To say I was a little pissed off was a big understatement, how can they get away with this? I mean I have three near full colour cartridges, yet because my black cartridge is out it is refusing to print, what happened to using the colour inks to make a composite black? Epson are basically forcing customers to buy Ink to keep using their printer, even when there is no need.
Seriously if I had known about this before hand I would never have bought the bloody thing.
