Good to know! I've replaced 2 heads on my 1650 since purchasing in Jan 2020 so I haven't really seen much of an issue. I've also had to replace one head on my M in the first year. I think it was a bad head though because it wouldn't sustain long print runs.
What if you want to do your own repairs? I don't want to talk to a tech let alone pay them to come because the machine is locked down.I wouldn't go that far. Epson is solid. I have yet to see any complaints about their S-series -- minus the ink costs. >.>
Also, if you want the best feedback on a machine, talk to the techs who work on / calibrate them. They'll tell you exactly which machines they prefer to work on vs. the nightmares. Fun fact: That's how I chose the S80. Thanks Yellowcase!
You should be printing, not fixing printers.
C'mon man, you can do both. You read too many business books. What good is a service plan when a tech is a week out? Not paying some idiot $200/hr. I remember reading about all your service complaints on here, your reply is a bit ironic.
Service plans + backup printers is the way to go.
i just saw an old friend, best tech that ever worked with me, he was complaining that a friend of ours who always did our car repairs and gave us very good pricing (i had a barter arrangement with him for 20 years). had sold the business and will be sorely missed
I guess if your time is free and you are more efficient at fixing printers than actually printing/doing sign related stuff.
Printing with your broken printer, gotcha. How'd that work out for you when your fancy Canon broke on the regular and you came on here crying about not being able to get anything done? Pepperidge Farms remembers. You always have some silly strawman argument for fuckin everything.
I bough a back up printer, problem solved. Both printers under service contracts, run em like they're stolen. But now in the 3 years since then neither of the printers has been down for more than 24hrs, Canon/ Epson have been able to fix same or next day. probably 20+ service calls in the last 3 years. The parts alone would've cost more than what I paid for the service plans
Because you couldn't fix the one you had, had to wait on techs that were also clueless and it fucked ya. Do you hear yourself? I have backups for everything and can promise you, they also break. Doesn't happen until you use it which doesn't happen until you need it.
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Because 90% of these techs are retarded. You've had 20+ service calls, holy christ! I've had...... ummmm..... zero. Why? Because this isn't rocket science. The technology is old and printers are stupid basic. Congrats, you saved yourself nothing when you factor in lost time waiting. Dime stepping over a dollar. Whatever though, different strokes for different folks I suppose.
You defined laziness and being lazy is a money suck. If you printed in house, I guarantee you would agree Tex, I know how cheap you are
Over 2 million sq printed during these service calls. 100k sq ft per service call seems pretty reasonable, I'd say that's equivalent to a truck driver taking his truck in for service every 100k miles.
I had a roland sp300 and 540. 100% worked on them myself. I'm not interested at all in paying someone else unless it's work i hate, like cleaning the pool. and as a plus he keeps my wife busy and out of my hair for an hour.You defined laziness and being lazy is a money suck. If you printed in house, I guarantee you would agree Tex, I know how cheap you are
Cool. I don't understand your point though.
I do work on all of my own equipment. In 26 years, the only tech I've ever seen is the one delivering new equipment. FWIW Yellowcase isn't a repair company. They're color management / calibration / workflow optimization technicians -- the kind of folks the big industry players hire (for example, when you have 40 different printers and they all need to hit an incredibly low delta that your $5k spectro will never match). They know their sh*t, and hardware is a big part of that. Anyway, I only know them because they're an authorized Caldera dealer -- been with them for 11 years -- I pick their brains whenever I can.