Not a Genuine Epson Product???
932008
This is an off brand product? I had a hard time getting the ink to work after I installed it. Took several test prints and taking the cartridge in and out several times. The printer finally prompted me with the attached message, and then it worked. But I feel a little ripped off.
833056
bought the correct epson ink cartridge refills and the printer dosen't recognize them. did some checking with other customer reviews and it seems to be happening with 60% of these printers. why is amazon even selling such an unreliable piece of crap. why!
251906
I ordered the Epson Stylus Photo "RX500" Inkjet All-in-One (last year's model) from Amazon. I got a free shipping, and the RX500 prints pictures and text very well. It also does a great job in re-creating pictures from negatives. However, Epson offered three great Rebates, so I sent them to Epson immediately, but Epson CLAIMS THEY NEVER RECEIVED THEM, and Espon discounted the phone number to ask them about the missing Rebates. I e-mailed Epson, but I got NO Reponse.  Buy a Epson if you want a good printer, but DON'T expect the rebates if Epson is the one offering them.
549469
Not compatible with my epson printer. Error from printer. Does not recognize the cartridge other than to say "may cause damage to printer if you proceed with this ink" etc.
620903
LOL

I know these companies like Epson make money on the ink, but when the Printer WITH this ink cost me $20 less...seems ridiculous.  I tossed out my old printer to buy the Epson because the Ink was about $60.  I should've checked to see how much replacement ink would cost (d'oh) for the Epson cause it looks like I'll be tossing my Epson in the trash now too.  Cheaper to find a brand new printer on sale.
2436181
Epson printers are designed to make you keep on paying for new cartridges! Invest in a different brand! This is the first time that I have gone the extra step of writing a review to warn others of being duped into the purely profit-oriented interest of such a company.

Six months ago, we were fooled by what seems to be a too good to be true deal.  We decided to get this printer because it has the highest scanning resolution in its price range. We also thought that the separate ink cartridges will save us money in the long run since we only need to buy the cartridges separately when needed. Wrong!  As it turns out, the printing head of Epson printers are programmed that even if only one cartridge is empty, the software will demand you to change it. If you ignore this, the printer will go through the motion of printing but nothing will come out on paper, or it will deliberately misprint the pages.

From experience: We loaded an "L" sized black cartridge, so we are sure that we don't easily run out of black.  Yesterday, the blue cartridge said it is empty and the red is low. Since the document I was printing is only black we ignored the warning to buy a new cartridge and clicked print anyway.  The machine went through the motion of pulling the paper in and the printing head moved as if it is printing.  But nothing came out on paper. Today I bought a blue  cartridge and replaced it in the machine. After this is done, now the software is saying my red cartridge is empty! I ignored this, and clicked print anyway. It printed, (as it should since I know the black cartridge is still almost full), this time there are horizontal lines that were not printed on the page.  Since I was printing a shipping label with a scanning bar code which was not printed completely, my print was useless.  I tried this several times, and got the same print with the missing section on the exact same area. So, I bought a red cartridge and replaced it. Surprise surprise! This time the yellow cartridge is empty!!! I clicked ignore, and the machine printed the page, this time with missing sections in other areas of the page.

I thought this was the fault of our machine!  I googled this problem, and as it turns out, Epson printers are designed specifically to do this!!!  The printing heads have chips to detect this and are programmed to not print or misprint.  And if you try to put "imitation" cartridges it is known that it will mess up the print out.  (Please feel free to google this yourself! This is also what I read by others who put up their review here.) I am shocked at this terrible purely profit-oriented interest! I have never felt so disgusted by such business practice.

Bottom line, please save yourself the trouble and invest your money in a different brand!  Epson should be confronted for this appalling practice, or better be informed so that Epson cannot dupe anymore customers, then they will run out of business!
1029924
Not as advertised.  This is NOT a genuine Epson T020201 cartridge for $6.95, it is a compatible cartridge from another manufacturer, 4Inkjets.  Had to have a long argument with their customer service rep to convince them to refund the shipping charges as well as the product price since what they shipped was not what I ordered.
A giant headache and total waste of my time.
1924318
MY EPSON COMPUTER DOES NOT LIKE THESE CARTRIDGES AT ALL.  I OWN A WORKFORCE 880 FAX/COPIER FOR MY HOME OFFICE AND HAD USED A DIFFERENT REFILLED PRODUCT AND DID NOT HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM.  EVERY TIME I GO TO PRINT I GET AN ERROR MESSAGE STATING "THIS CARTRIDGE IS NOT RECOGNIZED AS AN EPSON CARTRIDGE"  WOULD NOT BUY AGAIN
2692405
I would strongly urge anybody that is considering an Epson printer to be cautious.  Although I certainly do not EXPECT your experience to be the same as mine, as an active consumer I wish to convey my frustrations with Epson care/service/support.

About two years back I had an Epson Stylus Inkjet (forget which model now) that failed while still under warranty.  I mean, the printer FROZE my computer and there were HUNDREDS of crossed out (RED) printer icons all over my screen.  Then I began getting code imposed over my desktop screen with words like "printer failed" in the message.  Yes, at the time I had an Apple computer, but that's of lesser relevance...

I called Epson, as my printer was still under warranty for about 8 more weeks.  They said they recognized this sounded bad and wanted me to send the printer in (at my expense, start the tab running $).  I did.  On the same call, they said they could either send me a new printer, or I could- under THE CIRCUMSTANCES I had- go buy one from a local store to have immediately and they'd reimburse me.  I opted to buy locally.  I bought ANOTHER same model while mine was in transit to Epson (tab $ increase).

Then came the true frustration.  Epson spent NEARLY 3 months in "processing" my return authorization.  They acknowledged they had received it.  They would NOT reimburse me for a new one.  They claimed that they needed to determine if my printer was failing due to defect or negligence (I included SCREEN SHOTS in the return box of nasty printer icons covering my frozen computer, how can that be negligence?).

After many, many calls to Epson service, they continued to say they could not yet reimburse me.  At one point, they even tried to say that I should NOT have bought one locally as their standard procedure would be to send a warranty replacement from their warehouse.  On this point they quickly withdrew, since I had phone records of who I had talked to.

Needless to say, after several months go by, I was told with finality that:

"Epson would not repair nor replace my printer because it was no longer under warranty."

Now, I had a relatively NEW printer from them (this one started having printer head alignment problems in the first few months) and they had held my returned inkjet printer from OVER A MONTH from BEFORE my warranty expired.  Now, instead of being out only the original $250 for my original printer, I had patronized a company that had given me difficulty with ANOTHER $300, and also about $20 shipping, and about 50 hours of my time.

I've had a Canon i950 6-color inkjet with borderless printing that I am extremely happy with since then.  Cheers.
614382
Dinah's Books-"Epson T032120 Black Inkjet Cartridge
by Epson"
 This is MISLEADING-as is NOT EPSON brand, cartridges say "compatible" though THAT is not indicated in the seller's ad, makes you think this is overstock, but it is an off-brand, unmarked as to the maker. These cartridges locked up my printer, which repeated the error : "please install genuine Epson ink cartridge" and would not run. Most Importantly, they are not the DurBrites, which are the waterproof inks Epson has been making for the last 8 years and makes Epson best for photos. This was the main reason for buying and using the Stylus C82 in the first place, their inks are great waterproof and archive-life DuraBrite inks. This off-brand unknown maker ink runs and fades, that is IF you can get your printer tricked into using them!
4949404
I ordered these with optimism. They arrived quickly and were packaged as actual Epson inks are, but those are the only positive things I can say about this product. For some reason after putting one cartridge in, my printer acted all screwy. It couldn't read the cartridge and printed horribly. I removed the cartridge after purchasing authentic Epson ink, and I am happy to report my printer is functioning fine.
I see others had similar issues. My advice, order at your own risk and good luck.
666497
I was happy to get these. I thought I would be getting the same as I can buy at the store. They are not. They arrived and I put them up until I needed them. Well, I needed them after the return time and ... my Epson printer does not recognize them!!
GPC ink does not WORK in my Epson printer.
My order was for 2 sets of ink! Now I have 10 useless cartridges of ink. Never again!
4407410
The Epson  serial number on this product refers to the STANDARD black (double) cartridge.  What I received was the PHOTO BLACK cartridge.  Since I opened the package before realizing the mismatch, I can't return it.  Given that their are several reviews describing this mismatch, the seller should fix this problem!
3003371
My husband bought an Epson printer.  I only use HP.  The printer is XP-410 so I purchased a 410 cartridge.  Makes perfect sense.  So I just now go to install it and it is the wrong cartridge.  Evidently the 410 printer requires a 200 cartridge. :(  Not the seller's fault.  I am stuck with an ink cartridge that won't work with my printer and a printer still without ink.  Moral of the story, don't use Epson; use HP; at least their printer models and ink cartridge numbers match. :(
2566167
two of the four ink cartridges would not work and read as empty.  I have e-mailed Epson and gotten NO ANSWER from them.
4806221
On XP-310 - Worked for 1 changed of black, but not for second change.  Still works for Colors.  I agree with the "conspiracy theorists" that Epson firmware can detect and shut-down non-genuine products.  So it is a "cat and mouse" game as to whether or not the re-fills will work and continue to work.  Others have suggested to find a brand that works and then shut-off your printer from doing firmware updates. (At this point, I am not sure whether or not using a Genuine black cartridge is going to correct my problem.)

3/17/14: Revised. Raised up 1 Star.  I think it might work OK.  I called Tech Support.  They seemed sincere.  Recommended that I do Set-up Maintenance Clean-heads 3 times.  2nd Time is was mostly better.  All colors working, including Black.  Black was Genuine Epson.  3 Color Cartridges were E-Z INK.
2604958
This ink came in the epson box, but my Epson 1430 would not recognize it, no matter what I tried to fix it, i.e. wipe off the chip with an eraser and with alcohol, restarted the printer, etc. but then I noticed a bit of corrosion on the ink chip, and then noticed that it does not say epson like the rest of the ink cartridges i have  (see photo)......it's full of ink, but not working.
Note: went to staples today to buy new ink to replace this as my printer won't work without all colors.  the ink from Staples had epson written on it and worked fine.  I will write the company to see if they provide satisfaction with this.  I'm very upset.  SEE PHOTO!