will try cheap generic cartridges.

The cartridges are a joke

I've felt pushed around by a giant since the moment when they had me waste brand new ink cartridges just so they could declare that the printer was defective, offer a paltry discount on a new printer that doesn't come close to bringing the price down to refurb prices from the same store, then refuse to budge on the discount despite 10 years of faithful Epson purchases (always continuing to use Epson products despite their failures every 1-2 years).I'm done.

If you don't have a cartridge handy, too bad

If I can't use my near-full, now wasted ink cartridges from my old printer ($100 in Epson-branded ink), OH WELL.

Even if you're trying to print in black and white, and the brand new overpriced light cyan cartridge is saying it needs to be replaced, it won't let you print in black and white

An option for the flatbed scanner is to scan to an SD (or MS or CF) card, as well as to printer, computer file, or Cloud.

and on photo paper, looks about 90% as good as if I had them printed from an outside source.

The only positive I can give this is that it's pretty cool looking