That's $558 per year for two sets of tiny cartridges, more than 2.5 times what I was paying for the other (also overpriced) ink

EPSON seriously recommend unplugging the printer each time it is switched off, in the same answer they mention that this will trigger a printhead cleaning cycle which is resulting in a significant and costly ink consumption (a nice way of making money out of a faulty design).

I would have given it 5 stars except it wastes a massive amount of ink switching from matte to photo black ink, and the inks are expensive.

Make sure to use the "Last Used" under ink settings to avoid excessive ink usage.

Using any third party paper gives much less than the desired result - I am having to spend valuable time, wasting expensive ink testing other profiles to try and get it to print on glossy card stock.

I am choosing NOT to go the route of some customers here and ship this printer with its full set of expensive ink cartridges back to Amazon, only to have this process repeated again

But with a refurbished one and I lose all my inks that I just replaced

Flawless, gob smackingly brilliant!I then went straight into my project which consisted of three prints to be mounted and framed - these were to replace identical photographs I had done in a Lab on Fuji Crystal Archive paper - and the three prints I made (on Epson Ultra Glossy Photo) simply BLEW the lab prints away in all ways - sure the Lab prints weren't professional