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Summary: I am beginning to loathe this printer...
Review: I purchased this printer in the early part of 2001. I was extremely impressed with the photo quality on premium glossy paper. I was also impressed with the borderless capability on 4 x 6, 5 x 7 and 8 x 10 prints. I now hate this printer and here's why:1. Paper constantly misfeeds, sometimes being completely contorted within the machine. This ruins the ink cartridges and is a pain to deal with. Even when it doesn't seem to be totally out of line, the paper is often just slightly off horizontal--you will notice this when printing text near the top. 2. Printer cartridges clog on a continual basis. Now, I realize that if you let your epson puppy sit idle for months, you may indeed need to clean the heads. Ok, well, I am doing this freakin procedure on a daily basis when I'm using the printer! I can't tell you how annoying this is as it also wastes a large amount of ink each time it goes through the cleansing process. In addition, the cartridges often become out of alignment, forcing the user to go through yet another tedious and long procedure. 3. Do you know how long a borderless 8 x 10 print on premium glossy takes to print? I'll tell you because epson won't -- roughly 10-12 minutes. You plan on doing a portfolio of say 20 pages? Good luck. Go to Kinkos and spare yourself the aggravation. Shame on you epson, shame shame shame.
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Summary: I am beginning to loathe this printer...
Review: I purchased this printer in the early part of 2001. I was extremely impressed with the photo quality on premium glossy paper. I was also impressed with the borderless capability on 4 x 6, 5 x 7 and 8 x 10 prints. I now hate this printer and here's why: 1. Paper constantly misfeeds, sometimes being completely contorted within the machine. This ruins the ink cartridges and is a pain to deal with. Even when it doesn't seem to be totally out of line, the paper is often just slightly off horizontal--you will notice this when printing text near the top. 2. Printer cartridges clog on a continual basis. Now, I realize that if you let your epson puppy sit idle for months, you may indeed need to clean the heads. Ok, well, I am doing this freakin procedure on a daily basis when I'm using the printer! I can't tell you how annoying this is as it also wastes a large amount of ink each time it goes through the cleansing process. In addition, the cartridges often become out of alignment, forcing the user to go through yet another tedious and long procedure. 3. Do you know how long a borderless 8 x 10 print on premium glossy takes to print? I'll tell you because epson won't -- roughly 10-12 minutes. You plan on doing a portfolio of say 20 pages? Good luck. Go to Kinkos and spare yourself the aggravation. Shame on you epson, shame shame shame.
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Summary: Epson Stylus Photo 890 Inkjet Printer Review
Review: I really like my Epson Stylus Photo 890 Inkjet printer. The output is just what I expected. This is my second Epson printer. My only complaint is the ink cartridges should hold more ink for the same money. I think the amount of ink in the cartridges is less than other printers but the job it does is great.
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Summary: Good-bye photo lab, hello Epson 890
Review: I started printing my first photos up on Kodak paper with very disappointing results and starting second guessing how wise this purchase had been. Then I used the sample sheet of epson photo paper that came with the printer and all I can say is WOW! This thing is amazing, there's no way to tell between developed photos and ones I've printed up. This was on epsons economical photo paper too, I can only imagine how good they'll come out when I get my shipment of premium glossy epson paper. If your in the market for a photo printer this is the one and remember the paper makes all the difference in the world.
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Summary: Better than all the rest
Review: I tried a H-P 1115....took it back in two days. What I REALLY like about the Epson Stylus 890 is there are no bells and whistles on the outside of the printer. It's body is firm, compact and sturdy looking. You absolutely MUST use Epson papers with this printer. Everything else has an "etched" or raised outline look to the objects in a photo. The regular photo paper is good, but the Premium Glossy Photo Paper is best. You also have to watch out for too much "pink" in lower resolutions. The higher resolutions do best with color. You can even go in and adjust the individual colors and I'd suggest doing just that on lower resolutions. (I tried a minus 15 on the magenta...and that looked about right.) It does eat up color cartridges but they aren't too expensive at [somewhere else]. It has a top load feed so you can't put it on a higher shelf (as in some Armoires.)All in all, I'd say it's a good, quality printer that prints photo quality prints.
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Summary: Stunned at the Quality
Review: I was absolutely stunned at the output from this printer, and I've been around color lasers for years. For the price, I love this new toy. Paper is key, though. You need to use the premium glossy photo paper to get the prints that are nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. On matte photo paper, the results are more like a poster, still excellent by inkjet standards. You only get one sheet of each to start with, they should provide more. They also provided a feed-in roll so you can print a batch, but I probably won't use that feature. Source is key, too, if you have crummy pictures, they'll look crummy when printed. I have 2.2 megapixel photos that blow up to almost 8x10 no problem. Black and white mode is ... well, black and white. Nothing special on that front. It will also _devour_ ink. Expect maybe 25-35 8x10s before you'll be needing a new color cartridge. It's still a deal compared to lab prices. I didn't deduct for that because you don't deserve this kind of output at the price it sells for. I wasn't interested in speed, so I didn't mind that the unit takes awhile to warm up and doesn't break any speed records in either color or B/W mode. Setup was easy, I did have one temporary glitch, and the software is pretty solid (WinNT).
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Summary: one FANTASTIC printer! best photo quality, allows roll paper
Review: I was always impressed with the print quality of my previous inkjet, the original Epson Stylus Photo. Well, let me tell you - the Photo 890 simply blows the competition away! The print quality on Epson Glossy Photo paper is nothing short of STUNNING! Even under light mangification it is impossible to see the dots. Skin tones and faces have a continuous tone not possible with other printers. And print speed, while not stunning, is perfectly acceptable considering the quality. As others have noted, Epson generally uses 2 ink cartridges. Because all 5 colors are in one cartridge (black is the other cartridge), if you run out of one color you must replace the entire cartridge. Subjectively, the cartridges seem to last about twice as long as my older Epson, but they're still not [inexpensive]. On the other hand, the Photo 890 has a roll paper option that allows you to print edge-to-edge without margins. This is a SIGNIFICANT cost savings which I believe somewhat balances the higher ink cost. As an added bonus, you can barely hear this printer printing (something I could NOT say about my previous Epson).
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Summary: Beautiful pictures, but ink cartridge nightmare
Review: I was excited by the extraordinary initial quality of the Epson 890 photo printer until I had to change the ink cartridge. The ink cartridges are both equipped with chips that are supposed to monitor ink usage. Unfortunately, when the chip calculates that either cartridge needs to be replaced, you have no option to continue printing. The printer refuses to do ANYTHING until the desired cartridge(s) is replaced. Even if you only want to print in black and white with an empty colour cartridge, TOO BAD. Further, if you accidently misalign cartridges when installing new cartridges, you can easily damage the chip sensors. In this case you end up with a printer that won't ever acknowledge the insertion of a new cartridge and will thus never print again. Additionally, the colour cartridge is a single cartridge, forcing the replacement of the entire cartridge when any one of the five coulours runs out. My advice: Get a photo printer with individual, inexpensive, chipless colour cartridges. Avoid the Epson 890.
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Summary: Excellent print quality, quiet and reliable!
Review: I've had my Stylus Photo 890 for over 4 months now, and run many digital photos through it (mostly 4x5, but also a dozen or so 8x10s). The printer is quiet and prints perfectly on the first try (unless I don't pay attention to the Print Quality setting or neglect to put the paper in the correct direction -- USER ERROR, in other words). I have Photo 890 prints posted in my cube at work, printed days after I purchased the printer, that people are shocked to discover were printed at home, on this printer. I also have prints in frames on display downstairs, in a room with full sunlight (NOTE: the photos, themselves, are never in direct sun, but they get a lot of ambient glare from the room); these photos are 3 months old and show no signs of bleaching/color loss (unlike earlier generation inkjet prints I made, which started fading a week after being printed). Every photo I print through this printer looks like I printed it at a photolab. I use ULead's Photoimpact and Adobe Photoshop to edit, color correct and process my digital photos -- generally, that just amounts to cropping the photo as desired, levellling the color saturation and contrast on screen so it's pleasing to me, and sending the image to the printer. I've had some of the ink blotching reported in other reviews, but it was due to my own error, such as setting print quality to High/Photo Quality but neglecting to put in glossy photo paper (DO use Epson for best results) and instead printing to the inexpensive paper I use for printing documents, spreadsheets, etc. The ink will pool in that case because low quality papers cannot absorb all the ink the high quality photo papers do. I highly recommend this printer, and the whole line of Photo Stylus printers. We also have a Stylus Photo EX (older, wide body format). Shannon Moore
wildtexas.com
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Summary: Beautiful pictures, but ink cartridge nightmare
Review: I've had this printer for about a year, and have had no problems at all - no paper jamming, no clogged cartridges, and no software related problems. As far as using ink, if I print photos, I expect it to use ink - otherwise I'd get a blank sheet of paper. The quality and color of the photos I print is outstanding - friends and family can't tell if I printed them, or if I had them printed at a lab. On any printer, the paper used for photos makes all the difference in the world - so I use Epson's premium glossy photo paper, as well as their heavyweight matte paper - and the results are excellent. This is my second Epson printer - the first was a 640 - and when the time comes to upgrade, I'll definitely buy another Epson.
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