Customer Rating: 
Summary: Not what it seems
Comment: I was using an Epson 890 for a couple of years and began to run into paper handling problems. Believing I had worn it out I was attracted to the R800 as a quality replacement.
How very frustrating to find that, after a few months of use, this expensive inkjet can only print on glossy photo paper and basic 80/100gsm matt stock. It will not handle matt art papers of any substantial thickness, will not feed matt greetings cards and is a huge disappointment. Epson Support are very unhelpful, just saying you must use Epson papers which leaves you with very limited possibilties.
I bought this printer because it has the potential to produce sunlight resistant prints from original art works but its paper handing problems negate this possibilty. It also guzzles hard to find and very expensive inks at an alarming rate.
At this price and after all these years of development I expect perfection from Epson but I find my $60 Canon is a dream to use compared with the R800
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Ferrari of Printers
Comment: One star for the Ferrari of Printers? Yep, it's capable of amazing print quality as long as you use Epson's most expensive paper and ink, you have infinite patience, and you are intimately familiar with the difference between ICC, ICM, sRGB versus ARGB, and of course the various Gamma options you must select for each print. Being a Ferrari, I just printed some pictures for my Mom and I had to reload the (expensive) Epson paper no less than 13 times to get the one print I needed. For me, it's much less of trial to upload pictures to an online service for great quality pictures, than it is to buy ink at $130 a pop and spend an afternoon screaming at my printer, which by the way thinks that human flesh is actually orange tinted. Before you buy this printer, you should really try an online print service-or even a custom lab. I did get a great quality print on the fourteenth try, thanks mostly to Qimage.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best printer I've ever had
Comment: I was working on a new art show - I needed to get prints in black and white, on high-gloss paper. Every Pinter I tried had imperfections on the black. I looked around and found this printer, and thought I'd give it a go - VERY glad I did. The black is almost silky - if you print on Epson archival paper, it utterly perfect - even under a magnifying glass, large areas of back are consistent and unbroken. And the show was a hit, thanks to the printed quality of the prints were!
While this printer met my needs for that specific job, I've been using it ever since, for everything from printed documents to photos - and I'm always amazed at he high quality! It was bit pricy when I bough it (March 2005), but it was well worth it.
I also like that you can just replace the color ink you're low on, instead of having to purchase a new cartridge.
My only complaints are the printer will stop printing if ANY cartridge is out (even if you're not going to need it), and I have yet to find the cartridges local, so have to order on-line
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Home Photoprinter - Ink Costs are Significant
Comment: I've had this printer for one year. I don't know how many prints I've made, but certainly hundreds. Everything from 4x6s to 8x12s (on specially cut paper - works like a charm).
Print Quality - Excellent
I use profiled monitors and a paper-specific profile from a third party paper source. I am an 'advanced amateur' photographer, but my prints from the R800 have been evaluated by professionals. Although I have printed some really long panoramics, they were stitched from multiple exposures. So, the largest single-image prints I've made are the 8x12s (from a 6 mp dSLR) - They are as good or better than a print from a 35mm slide.
Cost - the printer cost is resonable, until to run out of the included ink set, then you start racking up costs rather alarmingly. It's still cheaper than getting prints made commercially, and it is great to have the ability to print immediately at home.
Mechanical - some minor issues. It's not easy to get roll paper fed, primarily because the roll has such a curl set in it that you can't get it started. Rarely, the sheet feeder also has trouble. It appears to be paper dependent: thick papers sometimes stick.
Overall - deduct one star because the ink costs are discouraging. I'd buy it again. Well, actually, I'd buy the R1800 because I'd like to print larger!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Epson R800 printer
Comment: This is a top quality printer that makes excellent prints that have an expected life of 100 years using separate ink cartiridges so that only individual inks need to be replaced instead of all the inks when one runs out as found in some of the cheaper printers. The cheaper printers such as the Epson 820 will give similar looking
prints that will not last as long. I like the printer better than some of the other more expensive printers like the Hewlett-Packard 7960 (which I also own).
This printer only makes prints that are 8.5 inches wide although it can make panoramic prints that are 8.5 by 23.3 inches in the standard size included with the printer. If you want wider prints, Epson has now introduced the R1800 printer using the same cartridges as the R800 printer (a minor miracle).
Summary: Not what it seems
Comment: I was using an Epson 890 for a couple of years and began to run into paper handling problems. Believing I had worn it out I was attracted to the R800 as a quality replacement.
How very frustrating to find that, after a few months of use, this expensive inkjet can only print on glossy photo paper and basic 80/100gsm matt stock. It will not handle matt art papers of any substantial thickness, will not feed matt greetings cards and is a huge disappointment. Epson Support are very unhelpful, just saying you must use Epson papers which leaves you with very limited possibilties.
I bought this printer because it has the potential to produce sunlight resistant prints from original art works but its paper handing problems negate this possibilty. It also guzzles hard to find and very expensive inks at an alarming rate.
At this price and after all these years of development I expect perfection from Epson but I find my $60 Canon is a dream to use compared with the R800
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Ferrari of Printers
Comment: One star for the Ferrari of Printers? Yep, it's capable of amazing print quality as long as you use Epson's most expensive paper and ink, you have infinite patience, and you are intimately familiar with the difference between ICC, ICM, sRGB versus ARGB, and of course the various Gamma options you must select for each print. Being a Ferrari, I just printed some pictures for my Mom and I had to reload the (expensive) Epson paper no less than 13 times to get the one print I needed. For me, it's much less of trial to upload pictures to an online service for great quality pictures, than it is to buy ink at $130 a pop and spend an afternoon screaming at my printer, which by the way thinks that human flesh is actually orange tinted. Before you buy this printer, you should really try an online print service-or even a custom lab. I did get a great quality print on the fourteenth try, thanks mostly to Qimage.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best printer I've ever had
Comment: I was working on a new art show - I needed to get prints in black and white, on high-gloss paper. Every Pinter I tried had imperfections on the black. I looked around and found this printer, and thought I'd give it a go - VERY glad I did. The black is almost silky - if you print on Epson archival paper, it utterly perfect - even under a magnifying glass, large areas of back are consistent and unbroken. And the show was a hit, thanks to the printed quality of the prints were!
While this printer met my needs for that specific job, I've been using it ever since, for everything from printed documents to photos - and I'm always amazed at he high quality! It was bit pricy when I bough it (March 2005), but it was well worth it.
I also like that you can just replace the color ink you're low on, instead of having to purchase a new cartridge.
My only complaints are the printer will stop printing if ANY cartridge is out (even if you're not going to need it), and I have yet to find the cartridges local, so have to order on-line
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Home Photoprinter - Ink Costs are Significant
Comment: I've had this printer for one year. I don't know how many prints I've made, but certainly hundreds. Everything from 4x6s to 8x12s (on specially cut paper - works like a charm).
Print Quality - Excellent
I use profiled monitors and a paper-specific profile from a third party paper source. I am an 'advanced amateur' photographer, but my prints from the R800 have been evaluated by professionals. Although I have printed some really long panoramics, they were stitched from multiple exposures. So, the largest single-image prints I've made are the 8x12s (from a 6 mp dSLR) - They are as good or better than a print from a 35mm slide.
Cost - the printer cost is resonable, until to run out of the included ink set, then you start racking up costs rather alarmingly. It's still cheaper than getting prints made commercially, and it is great to have the ability to print immediately at home.
Mechanical - some minor issues. It's not easy to get roll paper fed, primarily because the roll has such a curl set in it that you can't get it started. Rarely, the sheet feeder also has trouble. It appears to be paper dependent: thick papers sometimes stick.
Overall - deduct one star because the ink costs are discouraging. I'd buy it again. Well, actually, I'd buy the R1800 because I'd like to print larger!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Epson R800 printer
Comment: This is a top quality printer that makes excellent prints that have an expected life of 100 years using separate ink cartiridges so that only individual inks need to be replaced instead of all the inks when one runs out as found in some of the cheaper printers. The cheaper printers such as the Epson 820 will give similar looking
prints that will not last as long. I like the printer better than some of the other more expensive printers like the Hewlett-Packard 7960 (which I also own).
This printer only makes prints that are 8.5 inches wide although it can make panoramic prints that are 8.5 by 23.3 inches in the standard size included with the printer. If you want wider prints, Epson has now introduced the R1800 printer using the same cartridges as the R800 printer (a minor miracle).
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