My only beef with Epson is in my experience, their printer heads suck! When I lived with my parents, all we bought were Epson printers because thats mostly what they sold where my dad worked. First one, Epson 800 b/w: clogged printer head and broken spring. Second one, Epson 600 Color: Clogged printer head. Third one: Epson 640 Color: broken nozzle in printer head. Now, we cleaned the heads regularly whenever the print quaility deteriorated on our end, so it wasn't like we didn't care and maintain it. We even cleaned it like the manual said.
Personally, I prefer HP printers and am currently using the PSC 2110. My friend uses Kodak and hasn't had a problem with it in the ~5 years that she has had it. Just seems to me, Epson and Lexmark are printers with problems.