I totally agree. I'm utterly sick of the banging, crashing and grinding noises whenever I try to print something, followed by "ink out" messages (even though I changed all the cartridges last week). So I recently threw out my newish Cannon printer and purchased an Epson. The reason being that I still have an Epson dot-matrix printer that I bought with my Apple II back in 1976. It still works fine and is still on the original ribbon (albeit re-inked a zillion times). But of course the new Epson is if anything the worst printer I have ever owned. The first company who brings out an affordable but reliable printer is going to make a fortune.