I had the WF-3640 and it was a bad experience. yes I know personal experiences don't equal broad truth, but in my opinion the "PrecisionCore" print heads they put in these things are fundamentally broken, or at least they were for their initial rollout.
the thing printed ok for a few weeks initially, after which I started having to feed it paper and ink regularly for cleanings and head alignments just to get anything that didn't have major streaks, smudges or shadows. I can't believe I was so desperate to make a sub-200 printer work that I was throwing time and money just so that it could print a Flames ticket that the barcode reader wouldn't reject.
after looking online, I noticed a pattern. the first few months of reviews after these printers came out, great feedback, no issues. soon after that, everyone started complaining about the same thing, either terrible print quality or no output at all. I even came across a video of some people giving it the "Office Space" treatment by taking it out to a field and blasting it to printer hell with shotgun blasts.
so now I'm on a Canon laser that's 3 times the price, but is infallible in every way that the Epson was not. maybe the next series of Epsons (they have WF-37xx ones now) has fixed all the problems, but I'm spooked from ever gambling on ink jet technology again.
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