Customer Rating: 
Summary: Love this printer but printing CD/DVD is frustrating!
Comment: Picture quality is great. This is by far the best printer I've ever owned. Considering the price and the quality of the picture it puts out... it's a great value! However, from the very start I've always found it a little difficult to print on CDs. Now after a few years of owning it, the printer will simply not print on CDs... it'll seemply rejects the CD trays. I don't know if this is a common problem on this model!
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Summary: Great Printer was a surprise
Comment: Bought this printer because I wanted to print on DVD's. Never planned on using the built in screen but it has been great to see ink levels without connecting over USB. Works great with an Airport Express Print Server. Just did a backup of all my images and it labeled all 14 DVD's perfectly. The Mac software is so so but the output and usability were great. If you do use the printer connected over USB the memory card reader will mount on your computer helping to save some space. The memory card reader appears to be USB 1 so transfers were slow.
This printer was a delightful surprise.
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Summary: A great little photo printer
Comment: I had an older canon printer (s500) that I always had trouble getting it to print on a particular size photo paper. If I tried it on 4X6 it would print half and half would be blank photo paper. The quality was pretty good.
I got this printer and hoped that it was more photo printer friendly. Any of the reviews I read said it was.
And it really is! You can connect in many ways; direct from computer via usb, or multiple cards. It was never easier. I load in the 4X6 and connect and push print.
You can print all or some. And you can see them in the lcd on the printer.
It's very quiet and text is also good. The photos look like they came from a photo shop.
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Summary: Clogged nozzles will lead to a short life
Comment: I had an Epson R320 printer for about 8 months. I certainly will give it 5 stars for print quality.
Unfortunately, I did not print for about a month over the Christmas and my black and yellow nozzles clogged and would not clean. I "Googled" the Internet for answers and discovered that Epson nozzle clogging is a big problem. There were all kinds of home cooked remedies and mumbo-jumbo on how to unclog the nozzles. In the end my nozzles remained clogged and a $179.00 Epson R320 went in the trash. Very disappointing.
I have replaced the Epson R320 with a Cannon Pixma IP5200R. What a difference. For a couple more bucks the Cannon IP5200R simply blows the Epson R320 away.
Here are some areas where the Cannon outdoes the Epson:
1. The Cannon is super quiet
2. The Cannon Print software is powerful and way easier to use.
3. The Cannon has only 5 cartridges including 2 Black cartridges with one dedicated for photo printing.
4. The Cannon cartridges are cheaper.
5. The Cannon has an Ethernet and/or wireless connection for the home Router that makes it easier to share the printer.
6. The Cannon prints faster.
7. The Cannon has two paper trays.
8. The Cannon has a removable print head so repairs or replacement is easy.
9. The Cannon has a two sided printing capability.
10. The Cannon IP5200R print quality is equal and maybe better than the Epson R320
Sorry Epson; back to the drawing board.
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Summary: Problems with jets clogging
Comment: If you do not plan on using this printer as your primary printer. Printing every day, do not buy it. This is the second Epson, the first being a R200 that I've had that has problems with the jets clogging with inactivity. I bought both to print CD's and when they work they look great. But far to often I have one or more jets that are clogged giving me a worthless print out. To unclog the jets you are required to run the head cleaning routine that sucks the inks from the cartridges.
Epson's support is slightly better than worthless. If you do a Google search on inkjets and clogging you'll find plenty of others to atest to this problem with Epson's printers. It seems that Epson uses a different inkjet technology that uses heat to produce the droplets of ink and it is prone to clogging if you are not using it everyday.
I've wasted five times the cost of the printer in wasted inks. Unfortunately Epson's the only printer manufacturer that has the built in CDr print function.
Summary: Love this printer but printing CD/DVD is frustrating!
Comment: Picture quality is great. This is by far the best printer I've ever owned. Considering the price and the quality of the picture it puts out... it's a great value! However, from the very start I've always found it a little difficult to print on CDs. Now after a few years of owning it, the printer will simply not print on CDs... it'll seemply rejects the CD trays. I don't know if this is a common problem on this model!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Printer was a surprise
Comment: Bought this printer because I wanted to print on DVD's. Never planned on using the built in screen but it has been great to see ink levels without connecting over USB. Works great with an Airport Express Print Server. Just did a backup of all my images and it labeled all 14 DVD's perfectly. The Mac software is so so but the output and usability were great. If you do use the printer connected over USB the memory card reader will mount on your computer helping to save some space. The memory card reader appears to be USB 1 so transfers were slow.
This printer was a delightful surprise.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A great little photo printer
Comment: I had an older canon printer (s500) that I always had trouble getting it to print on a particular size photo paper. If I tried it on 4X6 it would print half and half would be blank photo paper. The quality was pretty good.
I got this printer and hoped that it was more photo printer friendly. Any of the reviews I read said it was.
And it really is! You can connect in many ways; direct from computer via usb, or multiple cards. It was never easier. I load in the 4X6 and connect and push print.
You can print all or some. And you can see them in the lcd on the printer.
It's very quiet and text is also good. The photos look like they came from a photo shop.
(...)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Clogged nozzles will lead to a short life
Comment: I had an Epson R320 printer for about 8 months. I certainly will give it 5 stars for print quality.
Unfortunately, I did not print for about a month over the Christmas and my black and yellow nozzles clogged and would not clean. I "Googled" the Internet for answers and discovered that Epson nozzle clogging is a big problem. There were all kinds of home cooked remedies and mumbo-jumbo on how to unclog the nozzles. In the end my nozzles remained clogged and a $179.00 Epson R320 went in the trash. Very disappointing.
I have replaced the Epson R320 with a Cannon Pixma IP5200R. What a difference. For a couple more bucks the Cannon IP5200R simply blows the Epson R320 away.
Here are some areas where the Cannon outdoes the Epson:
1. The Cannon is super quiet
2. The Cannon Print software is powerful and way easier to use.
3. The Cannon has only 5 cartridges including 2 Black cartridges with one dedicated for photo printing.
4. The Cannon cartridges are cheaper.
5. The Cannon has an Ethernet and/or wireless connection for the home Router that makes it easier to share the printer.
6. The Cannon prints faster.
7. The Cannon has two paper trays.
8. The Cannon has a removable print head so repairs or replacement is easy.
9. The Cannon has a two sided printing capability.
10. The Cannon IP5200R print quality is equal and maybe better than the Epson R320
Sorry Epson; back to the drawing board.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Problems with jets clogging
Comment: If you do not plan on using this printer as your primary printer. Printing every day, do not buy it. This is the second Epson, the first being a R200 that I've had that has problems with the jets clogging with inactivity. I bought both to print CD's and when they work they look great. But far to often I have one or more jets that are clogged giving me a worthless print out. To unclog the jets you are required to run the head cleaning routine that sucks the inks from the cartridges.
Epson's support is slightly better than worthless. If you do a Google search on inkjets and clogging you'll find plenty of others to atest to this problem with Epson's printers. It seems that Epson uses a different inkjet technology that uses heat to produce the droplets of ink and it is prone to clogging if you are not using it everyday.
I've wasted five times the cost of the printer in wasted inks. Unfortunately Epson's the only printer manufacturer that has the built in CDr print function.