Customer Rating: 
Summary: 10 STAR QUALITY
Comment: I am not going to write a long review.
The people who gave this printer anything below 4 stars, they can't have the same printer as mine.
You will be shocked at the quality this printer puts out.
Just remember you need a good quality camera too!
If are looking for the best printer for photos, this is it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty pictures for a pretty penny!
Comment: Great output that will output you to the poor house. Use it only for high quality photo output that you must have right now! But don't throw away your old b&w laser printer. With the high cost and short life of these Epson ink cartridges, you don't want to use this device as a utility printer for simple b&w output. And having more cartridges DOESN'T make it less expensive. But it is a good machine for high-cost high-quality output.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top-Notch Photo Quality
Comment: I bought the Epson Stylus Photo R800 for its photo printing quality after reading several reviews that gave it high marks...and I was not disappointed. There are faster photo printers out there, but none that I have seen that can match the print quality of the R800. I really don't care about speed when the objective is great prints, but the R800 really is not very slow anyway. This is my third Epson printer over the last several years, and even though the others were very good, this one is the best so far. The only problem that I had was that when I connected the printer with a firewire cable, the status monitor wouldn't work (if the status monitor doesn't work then when an ink tank goes dry you can't tell which of the eight tanks it is). I switched to a USB cable and everything works perfectly. I have been in contact with Epson's customer service about this, but they are really no help. They insist that it is my computer that has a problem, but I believe that it is a driver problem since the status monitor works with USB.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Perfect, if you know a bit more than the average user.
Comment: I've read nothing but good reviews on this printer. When it first came out my brother purchased it and printed what looked like extremely high quality post cards from his digital photos. My brother is a photographer and an artist. He was blown away by how well it printed and how well it printed the colors true to life. He's a PhotoShop expert as well and very picky on colors and hues an all of that. My daughter is a budding photographer and artist as well. This R800 has been on her wish list since she saw her uncle's prints. So after seeing the great price on Amazon and with a rebate, free shipping, we bought it for her for an early Christmas present. She set it up and installed it herself and was cranking out prints of her digital photo's for her art and photo classes in 10 minutes.
She understands the color palette thing in PhotoShop and how it relates to the printer, I do not. I'm extremely computer and tech savvy.... just not into PhotoShop that deeply and know nothing about colors and photography. This is supposedly the secret to getting perfect prints from the R800 - the palettes. I read some reviews about the prints being too dark, here and on magazine reviews. From what I can tell that's when the PhotoShop palette option is not used, and it doesn't have to be used. But the best results are with the PhotoShop palettes.
Both my daughter and brother say this is not the printer for me. I'm the one with the point and shoot camera and white is white, all those other whites still look like white to me. But for those with 1/2 an idea of what's going on with palettes and color and PhotoShop, this is the printer to get. Fast, spectacular prints. My brother has used the Epson model that's a step down from this, which he said has spectacular prints as well (even though the specs aren't as good), but seemingly more user friendly to those of us not living with PhotoShop palettes.
I'll give it 5 starts, it is what it is, a high end pro-somer printer. When used by those who know, it's unbeatable for the price. If you want to print family prints from your bundled photo software, buy the less expensive models.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not all it is cracked up to be
Comment: Uses lots of ink. Still can't get envelopes to feed properly. Should have gotten another Canon.
Summary: 10 STAR QUALITY
Comment: I am not going to write a long review.
The people who gave this printer anything below 4 stars, they can't have the same printer as mine.
You will be shocked at the quality this printer puts out.
Just remember you need a good quality camera too!
If are looking for the best printer for photos, this is it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty pictures for a pretty penny!
Comment: Great output that will output you to the poor house. Use it only for high quality photo output that you must have right now! But don't throw away your old b&w laser printer. With the high cost and short life of these Epson ink cartridges, you don't want to use this device as a utility printer for simple b&w output. And having more cartridges DOESN'T make it less expensive. But it is a good machine for high-cost high-quality output.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top-Notch Photo Quality
Comment: I bought the Epson Stylus Photo R800 for its photo printing quality after reading several reviews that gave it high marks...and I was not disappointed. There are faster photo printers out there, but none that I have seen that can match the print quality of the R800. I really don't care about speed when the objective is great prints, but the R800 really is not very slow anyway. This is my third Epson printer over the last several years, and even though the others were very good, this one is the best so far. The only problem that I had was that when I connected the printer with a firewire cable, the status monitor wouldn't work (if the status monitor doesn't work then when an ink tank goes dry you can't tell which of the eight tanks it is). I switched to a USB cable and everything works perfectly. I have been in contact with Epson's customer service about this, but they are really no help. They insist that it is my computer that has a problem, but I believe that it is a driver problem since the status monitor works with USB.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Perfect, if you know a bit more than the average user.
Comment: I've read nothing but good reviews on this printer. When it first came out my brother purchased it and printed what looked like extremely high quality post cards from his digital photos. My brother is a photographer and an artist. He was blown away by how well it printed and how well it printed the colors true to life. He's a PhotoShop expert as well and very picky on colors and hues an all of that. My daughter is a budding photographer and artist as well. This R800 has been on her wish list since she saw her uncle's prints. So after seeing the great price on Amazon and with a rebate, free shipping, we bought it for her for an early Christmas present. She set it up and installed it herself and was cranking out prints of her digital photo's for her art and photo classes in 10 minutes.
She understands the color palette thing in PhotoShop and how it relates to the printer, I do not. I'm extremely computer and tech savvy.... just not into PhotoShop that deeply and know nothing about colors and photography. This is supposedly the secret to getting perfect prints from the R800 - the palettes. I read some reviews about the prints being too dark, here and on magazine reviews. From what I can tell that's when the PhotoShop palette option is not used, and it doesn't have to be used. But the best results are with the PhotoShop palettes.
Both my daughter and brother say this is not the printer for me. I'm the one with the point and shoot camera and white is white, all those other whites still look like white to me. But for those with 1/2 an idea of what's going on with palettes and color and PhotoShop, this is the printer to get. Fast, spectacular prints. My brother has used the Epson model that's a step down from this, which he said has spectacular prints as well (even though the specs aren't as good), but seemingly more user friendly to those of us not living with PhotoShop palettes.
I'll give it 5 starts, it is what it is, a high end pro-somer printer. When used by those who know, it's unbeatable for the price. If you want to print family prints from your bundled photo software, buy the less expensive models.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not all it is cracked up to be
Comment: Uses lots of ink. Still can't get envelopes to feed properly. Should have gotten another Canon.
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