My PX-V 630 died after a year and half of using. I did not print so much. When I purchased it, I got hunch that this EPSON was not neetly designed. When I was in USA, I had used EPSON stylus color 880, which cost about $160 at that time, and It had worked very well for 4 years, despite of my heavy usage for academic study, then I sold it at $40. At that time, the impression I got was that "EPSON's advanced model was really great!" Because I had never nozle-cleaned it. I even did not the notion of nozle-cleaning. But seems things changed. Now EPSON is fragile and troublesome. 5 years ago EPSON may have been well observant about the quality. Or I happened to drawed lucky one. I wonder if this difference of rate of trouble has any correlation about difference of country in which they are made. I mean in USA, if you make Japanese quality EPSON and sell them, you are gonna soon get in trouble. I mean sue cases. In USA there are whole buch of guys willing to sue just for a bit of money. So there may be differences in probablity of touble appearances between USA product and Japanese product. What a shame! Japanese may be being forced to purchase more vulnable produt than USA's due to poore democracy.
Another my concern is that probably it is true EPSON is intentionaly not making all product (in same model) that problematic. Some 30% must be neet ones. But others must be disaster as you see on upper statement. In the bottom line, what we ought to sigh is that in current situation there is no good printer makers. Everybody in this site is attacking their printer's maker. So which is the good maker? How about Canon? HP? Is there? Or we have no...??