I have always bought Epson printers and never had any problems. Mine print reasonably good quality photos providing I use good quality photo paper. If you print photos on plain paper they will be rubbish. My printers print good quality until a cartridge runs out. That will stop the printer in mid print and waste that paper and ink for that print job. I never ever use Epson cartridges because thay are stupidly expensive I always buy refills of Ebay for cheap. Never had any problems.