Epson Stylus® CX4600 All-In-One InkJet Printer

Please notice that any and all positive reviews for this printer are from those that have had their printer for only a short time. All users (Amazon has over 100 reviews of this printer) that have used this printer for more than about 6 months hate it. It is almost a certainty that the print heads (or tube) will become clogged, use up all of your expensive ink, and leave you without a working printer. Epson knows about this problem and will send you another printer (both in and out of warranty), but the same thing will happen to the replacement. I'm on my third unit. The unit goes through ink very quickly, especially when you have to clean the heads, and the ink is quite expensive. The printer does work well when it is working, but do yourself a favor and stay away from the Epson CX line. This inexpensive printer will cost you a small fortune!

I bought my first 4600 and I was so amazed that I bought another. It has been about a year and both of them have stopped working, I have tried windex and all other cleaning solutions...nothing.

I have spent countless hours with this printer, and i still cant print anything.

Buy a laser printer, my Apple Personal Laser Writer 300 is 10 years old and has given me no problems.

I bought this used printer because it matched my computer's need and it was low priced. The shipping cost was exccesively high so the purchase was rationalized as a balanced action. The printer arrived totally defective. Luckily, when I spoke to Epson, the maker, about repair they elected to replace it without cost. They did. And that was an unusual fix since about half the items that I have purchased on Ebay, regardless of the price, are defective and/ or their condition is falsely stated.

Sorry folks, the Epson CX series printers are losers! I had my CX for 6 months. Unless you use this printer daily, the heads get clogged. Once clogged, it's a throw away printer! You can't replace or even manually clean the heads without major printer disassembly! The head cleaning assembly becomes saturated and unuseable. After 6 months my printer was useless. Too clogged to print. No way to clean it. Can't buy replacment parts. What a waste! All the CX series are built the same way!

Ok...I bought this guy mainly because CNet gave it a good review and it was a scanner and color printer. It prints color pictures pretty good but I won't write home about it. The scanner did a very nice job. Software is kinda a pain...I don't like installing 40 apps to use a device and this guy will install way too many by default. I would totally recommend this as a very good budget multi printer except for one thing that happened to me... It broke! I left this guy on (actually I didn't...a guest did) overnight and by mid day it wouldn't print anymore. Ive wasted a ton of ink and time trying to get this guy workin again and am very unhappy with the tech support from Epson. If you know you can only have this guy on while actually printing...go get it...otherwise you might want to pass.

I bought this printer 18 months ago, six months later failed to print, called Epson they sent me a replacement. Eight months later the new one failed to print the correct character, spoke with Epson they suggested another printer for $189.00
Still sitting on the shelf. I don't recommend you buy this ink guzzling printer and full of problems. I opted to buy HP instead.

If you have a Epson Stylus Printer don't remove cartridges unless you have replacements in hand. The Ink injectors Clog Fast. I had mines for 1yr 3 mths the Perfomance was Excellent before last month. I made several attempts to clean them with cleaning kit no luck.

Error:

Error lights on
All other lights flashing

I'm buying another one only because I spent almost $50 on a Spongeless cartridge kit with inks. This one will be up for Auction soon in Original box complete with software/driver, Instruction manual and power cord.

GOOD LUCK!

I have had 6 diferent Epson printers during the last 8 years. The CX4600 was the worst. After buying another set of Epson cartridges, it still didn't print anymore. It failed after only 20 months and the "authorized" Epson repairman said it would be over $200 to fix it.

I love this printer/copier/scanner. Can't find it anywhere. I had one before but it stopped working after 2 years and I had a ton of ink cartridges left over so I needed another one. I purchased a different printer when mine stopped working and the price for the inks were outrageous and it was too loud, I jumped every time it started. I am very happy with this Epson printer I purchased on Ebay. Linda

These printers are junk. Stay away from them. Constantly gives error message that it is out of ink even when Epson cartridges are full and brand new. When it has this error message, it won't print or copy.

This printer constantly has needed it's print heads cleaned, from the time I first purchased the printer. Cleaning the printers consumes lots of ink, and results in this printer costing me way to much. Now, I can't even get the print heads unclogged, and after numerous tries I'm going to throw the thing out. A printer lasting less than 2 years is absolutely unacceptable.

I'm so upset with this printer. I bought it new. It worked great for the first few months then, you guessed it, clogged head problems. It was only used a few nights a week for the kids to print homework assignments. The heads would be clogged up each time I went to use it so it would have to go through several cleaning cycles before the colors would print properly. The cleaning cycles really use a lot of ink so I was buying ink left and right! Then, it just got to the point where it didn't print at all. This printer will easily cost $25/mo. with all the ink you have to buy and can cost much more if you plan on printing full-page color photos or digital prints! It may be a great deal up front, but costly in the end.

Have had the 4600 6 months'it is worst printer I have ever had.Iam going to buy another brand tomorrow.Nothing works like the salesman said.Now it doesn't work at all.

I had a very large quanity of ink for this printer. It also prints good pictures and letters. I also got this printer at a very good price and the shipping was very fast and on time.

if there was anything less than poor, that's what i would have picked. i got the printer and it did not work. had to throw it away. not happy at all.

Purchased for a backup ........... appears exactly as described .......... care taken in shipment. I have not fired it up and won't until the current CX4600 dies ........... purchased because the price of ink is very good on these old printers .......... and they work fairly well if not abused.

I bought this printer back in 2004 and still have it hooked up to windows XP, I am very happy with this printer and have NEVER had a problem with it becoming clogged. I have never had to clean this printer either,it makes excellent copies, and does wonderfully on scanning, I am currently looking to purchase two more of these,one for another computer in my home and one for my office. As far as the ink being too expensive, I was able to locate 24 pks of ink (not the epson brand) on ebay for under $50, that was a bargin and in my opinion this has been the best printer that I have EVER owned.

I bought this thing because I needed another scanner and said, "what the heck....." As with other reviewers, the thing just isn't reliable as a printer, however the scanner function--using the oem software is the best I have ever used. In fact when I had a "c" drive crash, and couldn't find the CX4600 original software suite on reinstall, I bought another machine on ebay just to get the software. If you do scanning and appreciate great scanning software, this machine is worth it even if it never prints again!

i'm totally disappoint about this product, it's not work right when i got it. the printer not working right at all, heavy.

Quality photos, clear scans and copies. Very pleased with this unit. I would recommend this to anyone who needs to copy, scan, print photos or clear documants.

Picked up a cx4600 at a thrift store,without a scratch,cheap.After getting it fired up and finding out it didnt work,I did some searching.Seems this printer suffers the same problems all durabrite printers,no printing after cart exchange.The printhead cleaning vacuum tube clogs or disconnects from parking assembly.
After clearing the vacuum tube and reinking the carts with dye ink,it printed perfectly.
This is a great printer though it is an ink hog.

I only use it for copying and quick prints from media cards so it sits sometimes without being used but never have a problem since using dye ink.

Im sure I would not be so happy if I had bought it new.

Had the printer before I got a better one. Thought the printer was good for the price and I thought the scanner worked very well.

I looked for a epson printer, because I had some printer ink left
over from my laster 2 epson cx86 printer which were both disaster
for me. Before I can choose some other brand of printers, I wanted
to take a chance at getting another epson that I can use my left-over
ink. Luckily I saw this one listed, and as usual I put in a bid
after looking at the 100% feedback rating of the seller. No one
outbid me so I got it at a good price, and the machine was exactly
as described and much better than I had envisioned to get for the
price I paid. I think the rating really does mean something most of the time.