Customer Rating: 
Summary: worthless piece of junk
Comment: i got this printer for free with my imac. it produced a handful of good photos before going completely useless on me. it seems like if you don't use it every day, the ink just dries up or jams the heads or something, so you have to run the utility and clean the heads about 20 times before the ink starts flowing again. by which time the cartridges are empty. like other reviewers, i spend about 2 hours cleaning the heads and wasting paper on test pages before i can ever actually use this printer for any meaningful outputs. and i don't mean photos, i'm just talking about plain text printing. this printer is so awful i cannot believe it ever left the factory testing lab.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a hunk-o'-junk!! Can I give less than one star?
Comment: My hubby bought this printer for me, knowing that I have hundreds of digital photos on my hard drive that I would love to share. He's usually pretty good at picking computer peripherals, since it's his job to find the best gear for the best price. But he really blew it with this one!! It's incredibly, unbelievably noisy, it takes forever to get anything done, I have frequent paper jams even when I've got an inch thick stack of paper in the feeder, it guzzles ink by the gallon and I'm NEVER satisfied with the output. I've gone through four complete sets of ink cartridges and have... oh about three photos to show for it. It does an alright job with general ink-jet printing tasks, like printing up grocery lists and stuff like that but for my money, I'd never buy another one. My aunt bought one at a garage sale to give to her grandson; I told her she paid too much for it ($10) and that her grandson would be cursing her till Doomsday. [It WAS at a garage sale for heaven's sake!!] A friend was here the other day to get my help with a poster presentation she's preparing for a conference. We wasted two hours, a package of glossy photo paper and a bucket of ink and had NOTHING to show for it when we were done. So now hubby has agreed to trade printers with me and I'll be using his oh-so-quiet, speedy, sharp-printing Canon S330 from now on. Woo hoo!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not just the worst printer I've ever owned...
Comment: The Epson Stylus Photo 820 is not just the worst printer I've ever owned; it's the single worst piece of hardware I've ever owned. I got one which worked unreliably for a couple of months then died; Epson sent me another which refused to take in paper; they sent me another which never once printed without gaps in the printout, and finally they sent me a fourth which I still have, which has caused more grief and frustration than any other piece of hardware I've ever owned. I spend half my time cleaning the print heads; I can do this ten times in a row and still get printouts with blank horizontal lines running through it. The printer demands new cartridges constantly, because all the ink is being used on cleaning the print heads. I would sooner set myself on fire than buy another Epson product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Devil's Printer: Eternal Damnation in form of a Printer
Comment: If you want to go to printer hell on earth, buy this shiny and attractive ink vampire. It is very pretty and comes with a highly reputed name, but beware -- after a day or so (a week if you are lucky) of flawless results, the nightmare starts. Photos appear in the wrong colors, or with unsightly bars through the image. You wonder, how could it be? -- this is a new printer! But you soon find that your impressive looking printer is merely biding it's time, drinking your ink, and (late at night, when it thinks you're asleep) laughing softly and maniacally at your panic and unease. Unarguably an evil invention by Epson's finest shamsters. You will buy much expensive ink, and cry many tears of frustration before throwing the beast away (where it will sit invitingly next to the dumpster to attract a new fool of a human being). On the bright side, if you are masochistic, you will love this printer!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A real cash drainer
Comment: I am disappointed with the Epson 820 for the simple reason that it eats up ink like creazy! I don't print in colour and I can see the ink go down just as fast as the black ink. And guest what...when the colour is empty, the printer refuses to print. (How nice for Epsons pockets) If you read on the internet there seam to be a problem with the consistency of the chip (i.e. sometime it shows to be empty when it's not).
I can't complain about the quality of the pictures that has come out of the printer except for the ink consumption
So if you don't plan on printing in colour DON'T BUY EPSON 820 and even if you what to print colour, chances are that you will find it cheaper on the long run to go to any store such as Future Shop, London Drugs, Staples, ... then printing with the Epson 820.
Summary: worthless piece of junk
Comment: i got this printer for free with my imac. it produced a handful of good photos before going completely useless on me. it seems like if you don't use it every day, the ink just dries up or jams the heads or something, so you have to run the utility and clean the heads about 20 times before the ink starts flowing again. by which time the cartridges are empty. like other reviewers, i spend about 2 hours cleaning the heads and wasting paper on test pages before i can ever actually use this printer for any meaningful outputs. and i don't mean photos, i'm just talking about plain text printing. this printer is so awful i cannot believe it ever left the factory testing lab.
Customer Rating:
Summary: What a hunk-o'-junk!! Can I give less than one star?
Comment: My hubby bought this printer for me, knowing that I have hundreds of digital photos on my hard drive that I would love to share. He's usually pretty good at picking computer peripherals, since it's his job to find the best gear for the best price. But he really blew it with this one!! It's incredibly, unbelievably noisy, it takes forever to get anything done, I have frequent paper jams even when I've got an inch thick stack of paper in the feeder, it guzzles ink by the gallon and I'm NEVER satisfied with the output. I've gone through four complete sets of ink cartridges and have... oh about three photos to show for it. It does an alright job with general ink-jet printing tasks, like printing up grocery lists and stuff like that but for my money, I'd never buy another one. My aunt bought one at a garage sale to give to her grandson; I told her she paid too much for it ($10) and that her grandson would be cursing her till Doomsday. [It WAS at a garage sale for heaven's sake!!] A friend was here the other day to get my help with a poster presentation she's preparing for a conference. We wasted two hours, a package of glossy photo paper and a bucket of ink and had NOTHING to show for it when we were done. So now hubby has agreed to trade printers with me and I'll be using his oh-so-quiet, speedy, sharp-printing Canon S330 from now on. Woo hoo!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not just the worst printer I've ever owned...
Comment: The Epson Stylus Photo 820 is not just the worst printer I've ever owned; it's the single worst piece of hardware I've ever owned. I got one which worked unreliably for a couple of months then died; Epson sent me another which refused to take in paper; they sent me another which never once printed without gaps in the printout, and finally they sent me a fourth which I still have, which has caused more grief and frustration than any other piece of hardware I've ever owned. I spend half my time cleaning the print heads; I can do this ten times in a row and still get printouts with blank horizontal lines running through it. The printer demands new cartridges constantly, because all the ink is being used on cleaning the print heads. I would sooner set myself on fire than buy another Epson product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Devil's Printer: Eternal Damnation in form of a Printer
Comment: If you want to go to printer hell on earth, buy this shiny and attractive ink vampire. It is very pretty and comes with a highly reputed name, but beware -- after a day or so (a week if you are lucky) of flawless results, the nightmare starts. Photos appear in the wrong colors, or with unsightly bars through the image. You wonder, how could it be? -- this is a new printer! But you soon find that your impressive looking printer is merely biding it's time, drinking your ink, and (late at night, when it thinks you're asleep) laughing softly and maniacally at your panic and unease. Unarguably an evil invention by Epson's finest shamsters. You will buy much expensive ink, and cry many tears of frustration before throwing the beast away (where it will sit invitingly next to the dumpster to attract a new fool of a human being). On the bright side, if you are masochistic, you will love this printer!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A real cash drainer
Comment: I am disappointed with the Epson 820 for the simple reason that it eats up ink like creazy! I don't print in colour and I can see the ink go down just as fast as the black ink. And guest what...when the colour is empty, the printer refuses to print. (How nice for Epsons pockets) If you read on the internet there seam to be a problem with the consistency of the chip (i.e. sometime it shows to be empty when it's not).
I can't complain about the quality of the pictures that has come out of the printer except for the ink consumption
So if you don't plan on printing in colour DON'T BUY EPSON 820 and even if you what to print colour, chances are that you will find it cheaper on the long run to go to any store such as Future Shop, London Drugs, Staples, ... then printing with the Epson 820.