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Summary: Super Fast, Excellent
Review: This printer is so fast, quiet, four inks and they last. The color is excellent for pictures and the text is better then letter perfect. Super, super printer. Gotta get one !
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Summary: Be Warned
Review: This is a great printer. It's fast with text and prints beautiful pictures. However, ink is CRAZY expensive. Thirty-plus dollars for a cartridge (that doesn't last overly long) is quite frustrating and makes it impossible for me to recommend this machine.
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Summary: The reviews are right, this is a great printer!
Review: I bought the Epson C82 after reading the great reviews here and I couldn't agree more! I love this printer! I sell art prints on ebay (user i.d.:krystaljules), so I print a lot. I was looking for a printer that had excellent print quality and could also handle my work load. The print quality is outstanding and it has kept up with me so far! I also like the fact that it has seperate color cartridges, what a great idea, it's already saved me money! I have gone through 3 Lexmark printers now and will never go back to Lexmark or any other brand for that matter. I am so pleased with the quality of the printer I received for such a remarkable price!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I find it quite difficult to load paper or envelopes so that the paper or envelope grabs hold when loaded. I spend a lot of time "fooling" with the paper to get the printer to accept it.
I also do not like having to take out the paper to put in an envelope and then to put the paper back in to print the letter. My old Lexmark allowed me to keep the paper in the feeded and to insert the envelope or a single sheet of paper in the manual feed in front of the paper tray. It was much easier to work with.
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Summary: Faded Glory
Review: This printer is a bust to me. My epson 740i produced sharp, clean, clear, and vibrant prints. The prints from the C82 are a disappointment. They are flat and without the tonal range of my less expensive, but now broken, 740i.I cannot tell if it is the durabright inks or what. I want to return mine, and I hope I can. The noise it makes when loading the paper is SO LOUD that I thought I had broken it. I don't know why it has to make such a noise. PLUS, it is very expensive to buy inks. The C80 color inks do not work in this one, but the C80 black ink does. I guess the waterproof selling point is not for me. I miss the impact of a truly wonderful glossy print. This printer does not amaze. It disappoints. I truly wish it were otherwise.
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Summary: Epson is Great
Review: My last printer was an Epson 640 which I had for 5 years and was very satisfied with it, so when it came to buying a new printer I researched and found that the reviews from Amazon.com and other resources convince me to buy the Epson C82. The quality of the printer is excellant, the only minor draw back is the nosie it makes before printer but that to me is nothing compare to the the printer itself. I would recommend this printer.
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Summary: Great concept--needs improvement
Review: All of the hype about durable, waterproof ink certainly seems to be true. I sat a glass of ice water on a small color print and there was no color-run whatsoever. On plain paper, the color is quite good, but the images aren't as crisp as they should be. I printed an 8 x 10 glossy photo, which was crisper, but the color was somewhat faded. I used Best Photo, and it took about 15 minutes to print (after it FINALLY received the information--it took at least 20 minutes, overall). Text, in draft, often assumes a somewhat italicized lettering, alternated with normal lettering. It took forever (1 to 5 minutes), after clicking on Print, for the information to reach the printer. I had an HP Deskjet 860C that was much quicker, quieter, and had a very good color and image quality. I was disappointed after comparing them. And the RACKET! Believe me, you will always know when it's pulling the paper in to print!! If they get rid of the racket, speed up the information transfer, tighten up the images, brighten the photo colors a bit, this will be a truly amazing printer. The ink is truly DURA, but not so much Brite. I'm returning mine--and getting a Canon. To each their own!
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Summary: Adequate at best
Review: I had an HP 960C that was really very good. I loved the image quality on all types of substrate and its speed was also very good. The 960C was my fourth HP printer. Well, it broke. First it stopped ejecting pages and would indicate a paper jam when there was none. It would pick up the next page with no problem if I was there to push the paper jam button. Then it went into convulsions and started blinking wildly. Well, enough of that. So, I went back to the first printer brand I ever had, EPSON...I had an FX 85 dot matrix!! I ordered the Stylus C82 through Amazon...it took much longer than normal to get here. To the point: It installed on an XP machine with no difficulty; it prints with my existing software; it prints on multiple substrates, but it just does not live up to the HP 960C. The C82 is not very fast in color and, more impotantly, is NOT AS GOOD at color printing as the HP was. I am very disappointed with this EPSON. I was guided by others not to buy HP as they have "slipped" in the market. I have three older HP's that still work. Maybe I should have taken my 960C experience as a fluke. Perhaps I should have bought a more expensive EPSON model. The EPSON C82 is only adequate at best so be careful!
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Summary: Get out your earplugs!
Review: I bought this model because the output looked good, and the rep in the store was printing a page, and it was so quiet! Little did I know it clunks like a Mack truck when it loads paper. I was replacing an older 740 because it was so loud when it prints, and I wanted to get individual cartridges, as it was annoying that the 740 would stop printing if one color ran out, but still had plenty ink left in the other two colors--even if you were printing a black text only item! A second problem is I like to turn everything on/off with one switch. The 740 would allow this (although the documentation said "don't"), but the new C82 will NOT come back on when external power is applied, you must hit the on switch. My setup happens to have that switch in an awkward location. This was my fourth (and last) Epson--I was very disappointed.
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Summary: Best Epson printer I've ever owned!
Review: I highly recommmend this printer to anyone who wants to print photos from thier digital camera, especially if you are willing to spend the money to get quality paper. The quality of the printing is exceptional, but is really something when combined with some heavier weight papers, and it wwill seemingly handle any weight. I jsut printed out a photo on a 76 lb. peice of felt paper and the details are absolutely breathtaking.
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