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Summary: It is slow!
Review: Having a Epson Stylus Color, Photo 780 and now the Photo 820, I can tell you that this is the slowest of them all. (using the same G4 Titanium Powerbook. Printing out photo quality may make you wonder if it is even on...don't cancel the job thinking it crashed the first time you use it like I did. That said, the print quality is respectable and the price is great (free if you buy a system). See Consumer Reports latest issue...up to 12 minutes for a photo quality sheet!
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Summary: Are you kidding?
Review: How can anyone doubt that at [$], this is perhaps the absolute best printer value we have ever seen. I haven't yet used it for it's photo capabilities, but if it flunks that test big time, it is still an incredible deal !!
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Summary: Terrible Printer...Don't go this route...
Review: I agree with the folks who discuss clogged print heads. This is a miserable printer and when I approached Epson about it...they were quite flippant and not too helpful. Told me how wonderful it was...not very professional customer service. Yes...It did not cost much...so I am only out all those ink cartridges where I had to do the "clean head" function about 15 times. The final straw was running the "clean head" function 17 times, and still not getting them cleaned. Do I send it back? Nope...I don't want another one and they would not upgrade. It goes in the trash can. I would recommend the Canon i960. Amazon carries it too. I really have a bad taste in my mouth for Epson at this point.
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Summary: Got discontinued because it was too cheap.
Review: I am writing this to reassure you that the other writers are correct when they say Epson's inks is costly by running out fast. The printer manufacture base price of $80 is cheap relative to the high quality of the prints you get. So you most wonder where Epson is going to pull in their profit and that is the ink cartridges.Quality:
Epson's print quality has always been very good compared to the price. Its ink price/quality is a lot better then HP's printers. HP has more fancy built in features. I printed photo and graphic for my portfolio and they look great, no complaint here. I previous owned an HP720 and an Epson Photo 1200(half the dpi), which is an older model that takes self-refill. Epson newer models (820) are chipped and won't print with self-refill, the cheapest way to print. Performance:
With newer photo printer from Canon i960 (best) and Epson 300m (OK) with individual ink cartridges, it pushed the price of group cartridge printer down. The 820 is very boring printer, it just print. The design looks pain; there is only a few buttons. The Epson's driver is fairly good, but the ink indicator is just an average (base on how many page you printed), since the gauge level of all the colors are the same. Yes, the inks will clog if you don't use it consistently. Cleaning an Epson printer head is a nightmare, it takes a couple of round to take the streak out. This product is a solid two stars and is discontinued. I sold mine to my roommate and got the Canon i960.
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Summary: Paper feeder will drive you nuts!
Review: I didn't buy this on Amazon but wish I had come to see the negative reviews first!
Print quality is fair, but does seem to go through the printer cartridges awfully fast.
But the most annoying thing is how it loads paper - or doesn't! It grabs several sheets simultaneously, so that you have to stand there and feed it one sheet at a time.
If you don't, it will take so many it clogs the machine, chews up the paper, leaves a black smear on everything and sounds like it's going to die.
If you put in only a few sheets to prevent this problem, it will still grab them all and then start making a loud "protesting" noise when it's out.
I always talk back to it and tell it that it's the printer's own damn fault for being a paper hog. See - that's how annying it is - you end up cursing it out every time you print more than one page!!
So I would not recommend it!
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Summary: It's a piece of pooh!
Review: I don't understand why every says the quality is so good. It's mediocre, at best. If you use photo paper only, it's passable. But if you would like to print a picture on your newsletter or report (even on top quality printer paper) it looks nasty. I get better results with the old HP clunker at school. It clogs. It uses massive amounts of ink cartridges. I hate it...
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Summary: Not even worth the trouble...Don't buy!!!
Review: I got this printer free with a new computer purchase and I have nothing but frustration from the beginning. The print quality is bad. Color are either too pink or too green. The catridge lasted only 2 months.
I dont print much at home, but it is ridiculous when after only 2 months the ink dried up. Replacement catridges are very very expensive.
They give you the printer free but then they rob you when you need replacement catridges. I replaced the catridge once and again after only 2 months the black ink ran out!!!
And at the worst time too, when I need to print my eTicket the night before my flight...GRRRRRR! Buy at your own risk. Be aware that you WILL DEFINITELY be disappointed. Avoid this printer!!
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Summary: This is the greatest printer ever !!
Review: I have always been partial to Canon and Lexmark printers, but the Epson Stylus 820s blew my mind away. Never had i had the ease of setting up a printer in seconds (i am not kidding...i really mean less than a minute). It has both parallel and USB connectivity, fantastic color print even on normal paper. And get this, the contents of the package include some photo glossy paper. Aside from the fact that it looks cool, it is not noisy like other printers i have used. It also spits out text documents in little or no time. The printer boasts of a feature called Print Imaging Matching (P.I.M), which greatly enhances printouts of digital pictures in outstanding quality..up tp 2800 x 720 dpi. But enough said, i could go on and on and bore people....if you are scouting around for an affordable color ink jet printer but desire just as much quality, look no further than the Epson Stylus 820s. For [the price] it is definitely the deal of the millenium.
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Summary: Terrible, terrible Epson.
Review: I have always known Epson products to be below par, but when the offer for a free printer came with my new Mac, it was hard to turn down. The printer worked pretty good for the first month, although as another reviewer pointed out, it does require an awful lot of cleaning cycles. Thing is, there wasn't much ink in those cartridges, and I've owned several inkjets before. Then the nightmare began. I bought cartridges by other companies because they were cheaper, and because I've never had problems with them before, with other printers. The color one worked fine, but the black one was always rejected by the printer. So I had to throw out that money. Then I bought an inkjet refill kit. But after refilling Epson's black cartridge, that would no longer work either. The printer wouldn't even try. So now I've wasted more than enough money on this "free" printer, which is now likely going right into a landfill. What a waste! This is truely what is "wrong" in this country / world / lifetime. I will never buy one of their products again. Come to think of it, I realized that five years ago. I guess I'll just never accept anything free, either, from now on.
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Summary: Great value
Review: I have had an Epson Photo printer before (785 EPX). I liked it very much but it finally died on me. The 820 is a real nice machine - great quality photos. Its very easy to use the software - real hassle free.
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