That was a GREAT printer and we feel it has a good home – since we are the guys who made it ten years ago! We are also playing with a demo version of the Direct Color DTG printer that uses UV ink. We can maintain it, use third party ink and print light and dark shirts. We bought a used T-Jet Blazer for $1,000 and now use that as the DTG printer we show. It would have cost us well over $4,000 to get the printer up and running – so we could show it to students and tell people how much we loved it. When the head died Epson would not cut us a deal and wanted us to pay for the replacement head, service call, AND buy a service contract. The original article/review below where I talked nice about the printer has had well over 10,000 views since 2013. In fact for the first couple of years of having it we know we helped Epson sell well over 50 printers to our students, customer and referrals. They GAVE us the printer – no strings attached – and we trained well over 300 people how to use it and demonstrated it in our monthly workshops – for three years. That means our F2000 is now sitting in the back of the shop as a “boat anchor” because Epson has decided to play hardball with us.
If you read the December 2016 Update below – you will see that back in December 2016 we bought an original OEM head for our F2000 from China for $1,300 – but we could never get it installed without the “secret” Epson software. Epson has still kept the head replacement close to their chest and as of this writing we still don’t know of anyone who has figured it out without Epson’s help.
What might surprise you is you will see people selling their used F2000 printers for as low as a few thousand dollars! And, in all cases the comments are “needs a new head.” That means that they gave up and don’t want to pony up the $3,000 or more to have Epson replace the head and/or they don’t want to pay yearly for a service contract. What you will see right off the bat is there are still lovers and haters. You simply “join” the group to participate and it is an open group moderated by an F2000 user. If you are looking to buy an F2000 this is the place to start. If you go to the Facebook Group called Global Epson F2000 DTG Users Group you will see the good, the bad, and the ugly. Things have now really changed since December 2016 – out last update. You should read this section first and work through the article and updates to the original article. This article is starting to look like a saga.
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