Customer Rating: 
Summary: do not recommend this printer
Comment: I purchased this printer 18 months ago. I use it mostly for draft, inhouse, prints. Occasionally for photo quality prints, but not much. After about 6 months, I started having to clean the head.. Last week (april 07), I had to do another print head cleaning. I ended up replacing ALL the ink cartridges and getting only 2 head cleans completed. When I said it needed ANOTHER cyan cartridge, after already replacing EVERY cartridge in it that morning, I wanted to throw it over the hill! That is $132 worth of cartridges, 1.5 hours later and still the head was not cleaned.
Needless to say, I will NEVER buy another Epson, nor recommend any Epson to anyone.
I replaced it with an HP1020, non color printer for my inhouse papers. It was only $99 at Staples. Less than the darn ink I stuck in the Epson.
I've used HP, Xerox and many other brands of printers.....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best printer ever
Comment: I am really amazed at the quality of prints from this printer. The colors match my computer exactly which I struggled with on previous printers I've had. It uses less ink than I anticipated. Overall, this printer is a winner!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Plain and Simple, This Printer Rocks
Comment: There are already specs and such on this page. So I wont even get into that, you already read it up above.
This printer is just amazing. Everyone always compliments the print quality. Colors are just amazing. I have yet to use the wide format capability, but I have no doubt it will be just as great.
GOOD:
just about darn near everything.
color
speed
quality
consistency
BAD:
THIS THING EATS INK
i've never seen a printer go through ink like this, but it is WELL WORTH IT!
OVERALL:
if the specs and price match what you are looking for, you will be pleased. Its just an awesome printer
Customer Rating:
Summary: Print Quality Poor
Comment: I am on my second R1800 printer...and still the print quality is very, very poor!! It took at least 4 months with multiple, multiple phone calls and three sets of ink cartridges for Epson to finally diagnose a problem and send me another R1800 printer... I have given the new printer many many chances to print out a decent picture but it just can't. My R1800 sits just above my hp 8250 and I print out the same picture on both printers using same settings....and of course my $100 hp wins every time....at least 50% more vivid pictures, and much closer to the actual colors on my calibrated monitor.
The only thing going for this Epson is its wide format...but still I have had nothing but disppoinment and poor quality from this Epson.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ink Use Explained
Comment: Everyone complains about the ink use and it drives me nuts. Epsons have the best quality and horrible ink use because for the same reason, piezoelectric technology.
Every other inkjet company uses thermal technology which basically heats a pocket of ink to the boiling point and pushes out the remaining ink. This leads to rogue ink vapor and a fixed droplet size. Look inside a HP that has been around a while and you will see that the whole machine is coated inside with condensed ink vapors. When HP (Canon, Lexmark etc) need a larger drop they just squirt out multiple drops, a less effective method of control.
Epson's piezoelectric technology uses crystals that have variable flex depending on the current applied. This allows for fine droplet size control. Epson is the only printer company that can produce variable droplet size. This impacts the quality of the print and leads to Epson's quality lead. This also gives Epson more flexibility in the inks they choose to use since they don't have to make ink that can boil. This is why they were the first to produce pigmented inks.
The down side to this technology is that the print head are expensive to make and hence Epson is also the only company to make a inkjet that doesn't have user replaceable print heads. Anyone who has set aside an HP or Lexmark for any period of time knows that the ink starts evaporating if a head isn't used and the head gets clogged permanently. Epson is not immune from this problem but since you can't replace it they have to prevent the head from clogging in the first place. Their solution is to occasionally flush the head to prevent build up of ink solids. This leads to the 'mysterious' ink use people complain about. Each cartridge has a separate head and each head must occasionally be either used or flushed. If you were to use an HP your unused colors eventually would become clogged and you would have to replace the head or cartridge with head to get it working. It is a trade off.
Summary: do not recommend this printer
Comment: I purchased this printer 18 months ago. I use it mostly for draft, inhouse, prints. Occasionally for photo quality prints, but not much. After about 6 months, I started having to clean the head.
Needless to say, I will NEVER buy another Epson, nor recommend any Epson to anyone.
I replaced it with an HP1020, non color printer for my inhouse papers. It was only $99 at Staples. Less than the darn ink I stuck in the Epson.
I've used HP, Xerox and many other brands of printers.....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best printer ever
Comment: I am really amazed at the quality of prints from this printer. The colors match my computer exactly which I struggled with on previous printers I've had. It uses less ink than I anticipated. Overall, this printer is a winner!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Plain and Simple, This Printer Rocks
Comment: There are already specs and such on this page. So I wont even get into that, you already read it up above.
This printer is just amazing. Everyone always compliments the print quality. Colors are just amazing. I have yet to use the wide format capability, but I have no doubt it will be just as great.
GOOD:
just about darn near everything.
color
speed
quality
consistency
BAD:
THIS THING EATS INK
i've never seen a printer go through ink like this, but it is WELL WORTH IT!
OVERALL:
if the specs and price match what you are looking for, you will be pleased. Its just an awesome printer
Customer Rating:
Summary: Print Quality Poor
Comment: I am on my second R1800 printer...and still the print quality is very, very poor!! It took at least 4 months with multiple, multiple phone calls and three sets of ink cartridges for Epson to finally diagnose a problem and send me another R1800 printer... I have given the new printer many many chances to print out a decent picture but it just can't. My R1800 sits just above my hp 8250 and I print out the same picture on both printers using same settings....and of course my $100 hp wins every time....at least 50% more vivid pictures, and much closer to the actual colors on my calibrated monitor.
The only thing going for this Epson is its wide format...but still I have had nothing but disppoinment and poor quality from this Epson.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ink Use Explained
Comment: Everyone complains about the ink use and it drives me nuts. Epsons have the best quality and horrible ink use because for the same reason, piezoelectric technology.
Every other inkjet company uses thermal technology which basically heats a pocket of ink to the boiling point and pushes out the remaining ink. This leads to rogue ink vapor and a fixed droplet size. Look inside a HP that has been around a while and you will see that the whole machine is coated inside with condensed ink vapors. When HP (Canon, Lexmark etc) need a larger drop they just squirt out multiple drops, a less effective method of control.
Epson's piezoelectric technology uses crystals that have variable flex depending on the current applied. This allows for fine droplet size control. Epson is the only printer company that can produce variable droplet size. This impacts the quality of the print and leads to Epson's quality lead. This also gives Epson more flexibility in the inks they choose to use since they don't have to make ink that can boil. This is why they were the first to produce pigmented inks.
The down side to this technology is that the print head are expensive to make and hence Epson is also the only company to make a inkjet that doesn't have user replaceable print heads. Anyone who has set aside an HP or Lexmark for any period of time knows that the ink starts evaporating if a head isn't used and the head gets clogged permanently. Epson is not immune from this problem but since you can't replace it they have to prevent the head from clogging in the first place. Their solution is to occasionally flush the head to prevent build up of ink solids. This leads to the 'mysterious' ink use people complain about. Each cartridge has a separate head and each head must occasionally be either used or flushed. If you were to use an HP your unused colors eventually would become clogged and you would have to replace the head or cartridge with head to get it working. It is a trade off.
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