Customer Reviews

Stylus Color CX5000 and CX6000 Durabrite Magenta Ink

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I, too, find that I have to replace the cartridges WAY too fast for the small amount of printing I do -- and cartridges for this model are NOT refillable.

I have to replace the magenta and yellow cartridges again, but when they're empty I'm buying a better printer.

I purchased a multi cart printer cx6000 in the hopes of SAVING on ink. The opposite was true. ALL 3 color cartridges and most of the black were empty after about 9 pages of simple text and 2 1/2 pages of "wallet size" prints with the quality set at medium which is the default setting. I lowered the quality to 1 notch above "draft" and I managed to double the life of my next set of cartridges which is miserable. I will never buy epson products again. This is outright thievery on their part.

No doubt about the other reviews with the other folks frustrations. The printer is fine and prints nice and fast. What is totally unsatisfactory is the ink cartridge capacity. I'm not sure if it dries in the cart, or the printer pulls in a lot of ink when doing a nozzle check, or Epson puts 10 drops of ink in these cartridges; but something is horribly wrong when I can't print more than 40 pages over 6 months and have the carts go empty! What is even worse, if you have just one cart go out, you can't continue your print in pure black and you're stuck not being able to do a thing until you fork over the money and get that cart replaced. Not fun if you need an emergency print of directions or something for a trip.

I will never buy another Epson again. HP's are a little more expensive, but damn it, if you don't at least get print time on their carts. I'm sure some marketing genius figured they would make their money on carts. No more, I'm frustrated and will just toss my CX6000 in the trash. Bah!

Sure ink is expensive (no vendor is innocent), but at least Epson splits off the color into individual cartridges so you only need to replace the heaviest used. My old printer used a single ink cartridge for all colors, and you'd always run out of a single one first then feel bad for throwing the cartridge away.

Also consider the higher-capacity 68 cartridge which is the same as 69 with the same compatibility.

I just used it for about 3-5 times. In a simple file. Theres not much color on the files. And then Its already empty. All of the 3 ink jets i purchased is already empty.

This is exactly what you expect. They haven't clogged up my print nozzle, but run out faster than you would like as per a typical inkjet. Price is better than local stores.

Hi,
I have purchased these inks toners because of the good deal I found on Amazon. the quality is ok. I hardly print color, but when I do, I am delighted of the colors shown on my paper.