Epson - Artisan 1430 Inkjet Printer

I have a Epson 1430 works great with halftones

we had this printer, its like 100000000000 years old, good luck finding one lol, but yes, this printer, FUCKS, HARD. but GL finding one.....................

Hi, what you are looking for, is specifically a “photo printer” I can highly recommend the Epson ink tank printers, model numbers: Et-8800 Et-8850 They are ink tank printers, and both are identical in all specs, with the exception of the et-8850, being able to print larger sizes. They are both wide gamut printers. And the quality of the prints they produce will no doubt, be even more impressive than those your canon printer has printed. I own both models and I also still own an Epson artisan 1430. An excellent older photo printer, that uses the expensive, disposable cartridges. The difference in ink cost per print, between using a printer with ink tanks, compared to cartridge printers is night and day. Another advantage is that you don’t have to “babysit” your ink tank printer, because unlike cartridge printers, it can print 100’s of pages before needing an ink tank refilled. Conversely, the cartridge printers, seem to run out of ink in one of the cartridges, as soon as you walk out of the printing room, causing the printer to shut down. Which also means that you have to always have at least one spare cartridge in each color in stock, or the machine is useless. Soooo… Instead of walking back into the office, expecting to find your completed print job, you find (as an example), only 8 prints, from a set of 75 pages waiting to be printed, and then you have to replace the individual cartridge and re-pressurize the whole set of cartridges, before it can start to work again. When this happens, (an ink dump), (and it also can happen when you start up the printer, or do a head cleaning cycle), the printer forces ink at a higher pressure than normally used for printing, through the minuscule printer ink nozzles, and then the ink that is flowing through the head gets sucked into the “ink maintenance/waste box”. It is an overflow tank used to collect all of the ink wasted during a cleaning cycle, etc, and when you print borderless photos. Eventually the tank fills up, and needs to be discarded, and replaced with a new empty one. The ink cannot be recycled from the waste tank. All of the different ink colors, are mixed together in the tank, and is no longer useable, unless you want very muddy looking monochrome prints! The printer will also shut down, if that waste tank is full. So you need to have a spare on hand. And therefore a larger ink waste tank is an advantage, because it extends the time between printing and having to replace it. The printers I suggested above, do have large capacity waste/maintenance tanks. Best of luck with your decision. If it helps with your decision, I have printed over 32,000 full color 8.5”x 11” or larger prints, between my three printers, and have never had any issues with them, whatsoever. As a matter of fact, I had to sell my multi level house, and move into a ground level house. And for more than 12 months, due to illness, all three printers, sat in a moving pod, outside on my driveway, through a complete year of nasty weather conditions. When I was able to finally set them up, I automatically did one head cleaning cycle on each printer and then made a head check print. Wow, was I surprised to find that the heads were completely clean, no clogs, whatsoever. I probably should have checked them first, before the first ink purge. Be aware, When comparing the price of a new tank printer to a new cartridge version, be aware that the cartridge machines, which generally cost less, usually only come with so called “starter” cartridges. They don’t have the same ink quantity as the real complete replacement cartridges have. A true hidden evil. While the Epson ink tank printers that I recommended, come with what the manufacturer calls, “two years” of ink. My set of included inks, only lasted me for about two months, because I was doing heavy nonstop printing. For the math, I would not be surprised at all, if you took the huge amount of ink, that is included with the tank printers, and used that ink to fill the little cartridges with the correct amount of ink, using all of that ink, into the small cartridges, the value of just the ink filled cartridges, alone, would far exceed the cost of the tank printer, with the ink!! So, not only are you saving money by not having to buy replacement ink, for a while, you are displaying your art in the grandest form. The humble print. ymmv, imho, 📸 Regards, Randy 📸

If you have facebook the marketplace thing sometimes has deals. I scored an Epson 1430 for 30 bucks from there.

I still use my Epson Artisan for photos. These models were great. Unfortunately they stopped making them. You really need a printer with more than 4 inks for photos.