Customer Rating: 
Summary: Not great for refilling the ink
Comment: Im writing about this printer. When i got it out of the box, it looked very nice and appealing. My intention was getting a photo printer that i can print on CD's and photo quality prints. There are 6 ink tanks in the printer. Its very stupid how they made it so that you have to poke a hole in the plastic part on the bottom of the cartridge and you just have to make sure you have it upside down to fill. Unlike the Canon printer (i850) that I have, you cant see the ink inside the epson cartridge, so you have to watch out when you refill the darn thing b4 it starts leaking out and everything. Then you would have to put some good tape so that the ink wont leak out, and trust me, i have done this for quite a few times, and sometimes when you put tape, it still leaks out, and it messes up the whole printer. Severe cleaning has to be done so none of the other ink colors get into one another. One more thing to add, i had to also get a Smart Chip Resetter so that the cartridge will go back looking to be a full cartridge. Im pretty fed up about my epson printer and i consier it to be junk when it comes to filling up ink. For all the cheap people out there, do not get this printer if you plan to refill it up with ink. If you guys want, i will sell my printer for $20 if you want to come by to pick it up, sold as:is! Thanks for reading!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very nice
Comment: This is all I hoped it would be and more. It was easy to set up, easy to use, and puts out a quality product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Printing DVDs requires fresh trays
Comment: I have the same problems with the Epson R300 that some of you are reporting with the R320 -- in fact that's why I'm reading the reviews, to see whether the DVD printing has improved. Apparently not. But the theory I'm developing is that the CD/DVD tray itself wears out. You have to buy new ones after perhaps 100 DVDs. I don't know whether Amazon carries it, but compassmicro.com had them; the product number is 1274077.
Customer Rating:
Summary: for the person whose printer no longer prints cd/dvd's
Comment: mine does the same thing - if you give it a slight nudge right as it starts to pull it towards the roller, it will usually go ahead and feed thru without ejecting. However, mine now says "paper jam" virtually every single time after printing a cd, when there's nothing even in the printer to jam!!! It prints the cd's okay, but before I can print again I have to completely power the thing down and turn it back on (and it is painfully slow to power on and off) - sometimes I have to do this multiple times before it will print. Very annoying. I hope they have fixed this problem with the newer R320 since I know others that are having the same problems as myself. The R300 goes also thru a ton of ink - unlike any printer I've ever seen - it was costing me over $80 every 3 months to replace the ink - that seems a little too much to me. Another annoying factor is, considering that it is usb 2.0, it's very slow to send documents to the printer, not to slow once it starts printing, but painfully slow to start - and it's not just higher resolution printing that is slow, it takes forever just for the pc to get it to the printer to start printing. I suspect this is a driver issue - I know if you disable the Epson status monitor it prints much faster, but then you never know when you're running out of ink. I now only use the printer when I have to print photos or dvd's, otherwise I revert back to my trusty HP that doesn't use as much ink and never reports non-existent paper jams.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Epson R320 for art applications
Comment: I teach bookmaking to kids & needed a printer that could print from a camera/memory card without a computer. We are printing images on handmade paper, which can be tricky. This works great, but for my purposes, it has a serious flaw: In order to get it to print the image in a usable location on the handmade paper page, I am limited to 5" x 7", & have to mask off part of the image.
But for the price, it's fine.
Summary: Not great for refilling the ink
Comment: Im writing about this printer. When i got it out of the box, it looked very nice and appealing. My intention was getting a photo printer that i can print on CD's and photo quality prints. There are 6 ink tanks in the printer. Its very stupid how they made it so that you have to poke a hole in the plastic part on the bottom of the cartridge and you just have to make sure you have it upside down to fill. Unlike the Canon printer (i850) that I have, you cant see the ink inside the epson cartridge, so you have to watch out when you refill the darn thing b4 it starts leaking out and everything. Then you would have to put some good tape so that the ink wont leak out, and trust me, i have done this for quite a few times, and sometimes when you put tape, it still leaks out, and it messes up the whole printer. Severe cleaning has to be done so none of the other ink colors get into one another. One more thing to add, i had to also get a Smart Chip Resetter so that the cartridge will go back looking to be a full cartridge. Im pretty fed up about my epson printer and i consier it to be junk when it comes to filling up ink. For all the cheap people out there, do not get this printer if you plan to refill it up with ink. If you guys want, i will sell my printer for $20 if you want to come by to pick it up, sold as:is! Thanks for reading!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very nice
Comment: This is all I hoped it would be and more. It was easy to set up, easy to use, and puts out a quality product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Printing DVDs requires fresh trays
Comment: I have the same problems with the Epson R300 that some of you are reporting with the R320 -- in fact that's why I'm reading the reviews, to see whether the DVD printing has improved. Apparently not. But the theory I'm developing is that the CD/DVD tray itself wears out. You have to buy new ones after perhaps 100 DVDs. I don't know whether Amazon carries it, but compassmicro.com had them; the product number is 1274077.
Customer Rating:
Summary: for the person whose printer no longer prints cd/dvd's
Comment: mine does the same thing - if you give it a slight nudge right as it starts to pull it towards the roller, it will usually go ahead and feed thru without ejecting. However, mine now says "paper jam" virtually every single time after printing a cd, when there's nothing even in the printer to jam!!! It prints the cd's okay, but before I can print again I have to completely power the thing down and turn it back on (and it is painfully slow to power on and off) - sometimes I have to do this multiple times before it will print. Very annoying. I hope they have fixed this problem with the newer R320 since I know others that are having the same problems as myself. The R300 goes also thru a ton of ink - unlike any printer I've ever seen - it was costing me over $80 every 3 months to replace the ink - that seems a little too much to me. Another annoying factor is, considering that it is usb 2.0, it's very slow to send documents to the printer, not to slow once it starts printing, but painfully slow to start - and it's not just higher resolution printing that is slow, it takes forever just for the pc to get it to the printer to start printing. I suspect this is a driver issue - I know if you disable the Epson status monitor it prints much faster, but then you never know when you're running out of ink. I now only use the printer when I have to print photos or dvd's, otherwise I revert back to my trusty HP that doesn't use as much ink and never reports non-existent paper jams.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Epson R320 for art applications
Comment: I teach bookmaking to kids & needed a printer that could print from a camera/memory card without a computer. We are printing images on handmade paper, which can be tricky. This works great, but for my purposes, it has a serious flaw: In order to get it to print the image in a usable location on the handmade paper page, I am limited to 5" x 7", & have to mask off part of the image.
But for the price, it's fine.