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Summary: What good is a printer that doesn't print?
Review: If you are going to buy this printer make sure you use it often. It seems as if you don't do that, the ink on the nozzles dries up and then you won't be able to print anything. Also, the printing quality degrades quickly with light use. On a positive but non-redeeming note, I never had a paper jam with it.
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Summary: Awful, awful, awful printer...
Review: I was intially impressed with the quality of the regular paper prints, but this is certainly not a photo printer. I guess it was foolish of me to think it would produce prints better than my $30 Epson C40.In any case, I got about two months out of it before I started getting clogging of the print heads. This printer has been reduced to a piece of junk! It is constantly clogging and makes a terrible noise when pulling paper through (like it's self destructing). I've own three Epson printers and this I assure you will be the last one. I think I'm out of the inkjet market altogether! Time to drop some cash upfront for a decent laser printer. Forget this inkjet lay-away plan (or pay as you go) with over priced inks. To rich for my blood.
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Summary: Very Dissapointing. Last Epson I will ever buy
Review: I am very dissapointed with the quality of thsi product. This is the last Epson printer I will ever buy. I don't mean that in a good way. It is a real POS. The print alignment never worked well. There were always lines runing though each print. The fonts look terrible, like a cheap dot matrix. Worst of all, the print heads clog constantly. I have never had to perform alignments and nozzle cleaning as much as this printer demands. Finally the print heads just clogged permanently. When I print the only color that comes out is a faint pink, with ugly black smudges of ink all over the paper. The driver does not install correctly, I have had to re-install many times, the service monitor doesn't show up at all. I refuse to waste any more money on the outrageously expensive epson ink, just to have to turn around and shell out more bucks to get it serviced. For a supposedly "heavy duty" office printer that I spent well over $100 for, it lasted only a few months, and performed poorly from the day I bought it. Epson will never have me as a customer again.
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Summary: piece of junk
Review: I bought this printer 5 months ago. It's already got incredibly clogged print heads and I have only used the oh-so-precious Epson ink they want you to use. No matter what I do or try, no matter how many cleaning cycles I put the thing through, I still get horrible printouts. Everything has pale white bands running through it. This is a brand new printer and already it seems beyond repair. Don't waste your money with it.
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Summary: GREAT....while it lasted
Review: I bought this just over a year ago in 2003, and today, my printer heads clogged up permanetly. I cleaned them about 10 times, but that didn't solve the problem. What happened was my black and cyan cartridges were almost empty so I went to AAFES and bought a new black ($29.95) and cyan ($9.95) cartridge. I come home to replace them and installed them. I printed and all that printed was magenta and yellow!! The monitor showed the black and cyan were full!! So now, I go to test with old cartridges to see if I was sold an old cartridge, but my magenta just ran out b/c of all the cleaning. I looked on Epson's site and the owners troubleshoot manual and FOUND NOTHING that solved the problem. I also read other people's printer heads are worn out. I bought this printer for $149.00 from AAFES (Army & Air Force Exchange Service). It did produce great prints, but I bet yours will last about a year or two. Have fun fixing it!!
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Summary: Piece of crap
Review: I've own and used several Epson printers over the last 10 years. I bought this one new 3 months ago. I didn't use it for about a week. As soon as I tried using it again, it quit printing the yellow and cyan colors. After something like 6-7 cleaning cycles, the yellow came back. The cyan didn't, and still hasn't after 10 more cycles... Then I went on the internet and guess what: many people have had the same print-head-maybe-clogged-maybe-hardware-fault problem on nearly new printers. All Epson printers I had needed to be replaced every 2-3 years because of deteriorating print heads, but I never had such problems on a brand new one! The only positive thing I have to say about this printer is that the print quality is great - when it does me the favor of actually printing in color... It's also crap that you can't leave these damn printers off for more than a day or two without having to go through a cleaning cycle, no matter what the model. I don't want to bother with calling Epson customer service either: last time I had a printer break down under warranty and sent it back for repairs, it took them 6 months to finally tell me they lost it and then ship me a new one. I'm going to buy a Canon tomorrow.
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Summary: Ink guzzler
Review: I keep checking the interior of the C82, waiting to see a big ink spill, because the printer is constantly running of out ink. I rarely print color --about once every two months. The machine shuts down because of "empty" ink cartridges even though there is plenty of ink left. Frustrating and expensive! I've spent a fortune replacing ink cartridges, yes, Epson brand. Do not buy this printer! At any price!
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Summary: Clogged ink nozzle
Review: The Epson C82 was fabulous when it worked. The black ink nozzle (the one I use the most) is now clogged and I have only owned it for 3 months. I am still within warranty, but I don't want the hassle of sending it to the manufacturer. I'm trying to clean the nozzle myself with isopropanol. Considering the many other complaints about clogged Epson nozzles, I would think twice about buying this printer.
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Summary: Not up to par
Review: This ink-hog printer worked moderately well until I had to replace the ink tanks after which the print quality was so poor that I replaced the machine with a Canon i560. And, yes, I did use Epson replacement tanks. Be aware that Durabrite inks do not print on glossy photo paper. This is a plain or matte paper only machine. If it had not been a special offer ($50 rebate) I wouldn't have purchased it. As it is now, it has become a piece of electronics for recycling taking up space in my home office closet.
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Summary: Nightmare printer
Review: I've never written an Amazon review before. Like most people, when something works well, I don't take the time to praise it and for me, something has to be truly horrible before I'll complain. The Epson C82 is that horrible. I'm on my second C82 - the first one completely stopped printing after 10 months, so they sent a "new" one ("new" to Epson means refurbished). I received it in mid-December and after printing 10 pages, my banding problems were back (lines through the document and areas w/o ink). So, I called them again but was told there was nothing they could do til I ran diagnostics 9 times in a row. I've done that but now need to reach Tech Support during their very limited hours. To make a long story short, I wouldn't recommend this printer to anyone.
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