Customer Rating: 
Summary: Tempermental. Good standard glossies but not spectacular. Other problems as well.
Comment: I bought this printer for commercial purposes and now it sits unused. The printer does not print heavyweight stock (notecard) or multiples well. Inks are too expensive to make a commerical project pay. If you want to buy substitute inks that are cheaper than Epson's stay away from all but especially those from X-print and the online dealer Clickinks. No support from them at all and the cartridges print fewer pages than Epson's.
Epson has since come out with the R1800, but the experience with this one has put me on hold for further Epson printers. Buy a cable (USB) when you buy this printer if you do, because a cable doesn't come with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I'm so disappointed
Comment: I replaced my old EPSON Stylus 600 with the R800 because I thought it was of greater quality. Actually, the results are terrible: prints are too dark and the colour changes. I've tried everything to make prints that look just as the photos on my screen, but nothing works. I've downloaded new drives, I've cancelled "color management", I've used "ColorSync"... My old printer still prints better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor reliability
Comment: After some time researching printers, I decided on this one. I received my printer as a christmas present in Dec 2004. As of today, July 2005, I am now on to my second printer, the motherboard having failed on the original. Today, I suspect that the same thing has happened again, as with the first one I could no longer turn it on. I'm beginning to think that I will simply ask for a refund and get a different printer by another manufacturer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: food for thought
Comment: As a photographer and printer from the old school, I know that you can't open a box, plug in the contents and expect instant gratification (this is for the critics of the R800). Maybe I'm speaking out of turn since I haven't purchased a unit as of yet.
However, I have used Epson printers in the past. And like the old days of film and filters the first thing you did before printing was to make yourself a SHIRLEY. What's a Shirley? A starting point for true color (look it up). There's a variance in all the eliments - paper, ink, exposure, etc. The quality of the print is in the hands of the beholder, and the variance in their vision.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely the best prints from digital pictures!
Comment: I just upgraded from the Epson 1270 1440 dpi printer to the Epson R800. While I loved the 1270 color prints, I find the R800's print's absolutely amazing! Even 8 x 10 blowups from a cropped 4Mega Pixel jpeg, zoomed to 2x it's cropped size, show absolutely no pixelation or edge artifacts (jagged edges to objects); and the gloss cartridge really finishes the pictures so they are undistinguishable from lab photos!
While the individual color cartridges cost around $14.00 each for genuine Epson, it may actually work out no more expensive than replacing the 6 color 1270 cartridge ($35) when one color runs out.
Great product, Epson!
Summary: Tempermental. Good standard glossies but not spectacular. Other problems as well.
Comment: I bought this printer for commercial purposes and now it sits unused. The printer does not print heavyweight stock (notecard) or multiples well. Inks are too expensive to make a commerical project pay. If you want to buy substitute inks that are cheaper than Epson's stay away from all but especially those from X-print and the online dealer Clickinks. No support from them at all and the cartridges print fewer pages than Epson's.
Epson has since come out with the R1800, but the experience with this one has put me on hold for further Epson printers. Buy a cable (USB) when you buy this printer if you do, because a cable doesn't come with it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I'm so disappointed
Comment: I replaced my old EPSON Stylus 600 with the R800 because I thought it was of greater quality. Actually, the results are terrible: prints are too dark and the colour changes. I've tried everything to make prints that look just as the photos on my screen, but nothing works. I've downloaded new drives, I've cancelled "color management", I've used "ColorSync"... My old printer still prints better.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor reliability
Comment: After some time researching printers, I decided on this one. I received my printer as a christmas present in Dec 2004. As of today, July 2005, I am now on to my second printer, the motherboard having failed on the original. Today, I suspect that the same thing has happened again, as with the first one I could no longer turn it on. I'm beginning to think that I will simply ask for a refund and get a different printer by another manufacturer.
Customer Rating:
Summary: food for thought
Comment: As a photographer and printer from the old school, I know that you can't open a box, plug in the contents and expect instant gratification (this is for the critics of the R800). Maybe I'm speaking out of turn since I haven't purchased a unit as of yet.
However, I have used Epson printers in the past. And like the old days of film and filters the first thing you did before printing was to make yourself a SHIRLEY. What's a Shirley? A starting point for true color (look it up). There's a variance in all the eliments - paper, ink, exposure, etc. The quality of the print is in the hands of the beholder, and the variance in their vision.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Absolutely the best prints from digital pictures!
Comment: I just upgraded from the Epson 1270 1440 dpi printer to the Epson R800. While I loved the 1270 color prints, I find the R800's print's absolutely amazing! Even 8 x 10 blowups from a cropped 4Mega Pixel jpeg, zoomed to 2x it's cropped size, show absolutely no pixelation or edge artifacts (jagged edges to objects); and the gloss cartridge really finishes the pictures so they are undistinguishable from lab photos!
While the individual color cartridges cost around $14.00 each for genuine Epson, it may actually work out no more expensive than replacing the 6 color 1270 cartridge ($35) when one color runs out.
Great product, Epson!
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