Rating: 
Summary: Good for casual home users, bad for business users
Review: Despite costing [little] and being able to print in very good text and graphics quality, this printer is a disaster in ink management. The ink head would get clogged if the printer hasn't been used for over a day, and it would require self-cleaning, which takes 2 minutes. If you don't use the printer at least once a day, expect to wait 2 minutes for the printer to self-clean itself every time you turn it on, which could annoy the hell out of you. Moreover, the cleaning uses so much ink that you could run out of ink at an alarming speed -- after printing as few as 70 pages. For the most casual home users this may be tolerable. But business users, beware. The frequent clogging, cleaning, ink replacements that would occur with this printer would seriously affect the work of ANY business user.I've used Epson Stylus Color model 400, 440, and 600, and they all had this problem. Avoid this line of printers altogether (which also includes model 800, and others).
Rating:
Summary: Good for casual home users, bad for business users
Review: Despite costing [little] and being able to print in very good text and graphics quality, this printer is a disaster in ink management. The ink head would get clogged if the printer hasn't been used for over a day, and it would require self-cleaning, which takes 2 minutes. If you don't use the printer at least once a day, expect to wait 2 minutes for the printer to self-clean itself every time you turn it on, which could annoy the hell out of you. Moreover, the cleaning uses so much ink that you could run out of ink at an alarming speed -- after printing as few as 70 pages. For the most casual home users this may be tolerable. But business users, beware. The frequent clogging, cleaning, ink replacements that would occur with this printer would seriously affect the work of ANY business user. I've used Epson Stylus Color model 400, 440, and 600, and they all had this problem. Avoid this line of printers altogether (which also includes model 800, and others).
Rating: 
Summary: Inexpensive gem
Review: I bought mine a few months ago, and have had no trouble of any kind, even using a shoddy old cable I had around to connect it. Lovely photo printing (with photo quality paper, anyway) and not too much noise, considering the rock-bottom price.
Rating: 
Summary: High quality at a low price?
Review: I bought this exact printer a little over six months ago and have had great results. For the average person, printing mainly text, I havent seen a better value. My print quality has been outstanding and I am very impressed at how mizerly it uses ink. I'm very happy with it and would recommend it to anyone.
Rating: 
Summary: Best in price point, but I still love my HP 832C much more
Review: I had a Epson model 440 for about a year and a half, and when I bought it, it was about a $150 machine. Now where I definately would know that this printer is not worth nearly that in todays ever advanceing photo printing market I will tell you that its a fairly good value for its current price. The Epson 440 always produced nice images for me. The color photo printouts I would make on photo stock paper were very nice. The features on this printer are nice too, the software is very easy to use and helps a great deal with many projects. I also like the feature that lets you know when the ink is about to run out, that is a big help. Here is the bad news though, first of all the Epson 440 is pretty slow compaired to many of the HP printers I have used. Even the HP printers near the same price point are faster. My Epson 440 sometimes apeared to be tempermental too, not running some more complex print jobs. I do not think this was my main computer because I have been running an AMD athlon 800 MGHZ with 256 MB of ram on the motherboard, so I am sure the printer was limited. I run some of the same jobs without a hitch on my HP 832C which I find to be a fantastic printer. Last but not least is the Epson 440 is the loudest thing on mother earth, the thing rattles hums and shakes every time it squezes a print out which makes it difficult to get along with. On contrast most HP printers are very Quiet. So here is my final scoop, if you are short on cash and need a decent printer to get you by, try the Epson 440, but if you have the money spend it on a higher model HP printer.
Rating:
Summary: Best in price point, but I still love my HP 832C much more
Review: I had a Epson model 440 for about a year and a half, and when I bought it, it was about a $150 machine. Now where I definately would know that this printer is not worth nearly that in todays ever advanceing photo printing market I will tell you that its a fairly good value for its current price. The Epson 440 always produced nice images for me. The color photo printouts I would make on photo stock paper were very nice. The features on this printer are nice too, the software is very easy to use and helps a great deal with many projects. I also like the feature that lets you know when the ink is about to run out, that is a big help. Here is the bad news though, first of all the Epson 440 is pretty slow compaired to many of the HP printers I have used. Even the HP printers near the same price point are faster. My Epson 440 sometimes apeared to be tempermental too, not running some more complex print jobs. I do not think this was my main computer because I have been running an AMD athlon 800 MGHZ with 256 MB of ram on the motherboard, so I am sure the printer was limited. I run some of the same jobs without a hitch on my HP 832C which I find to be a fantastic printer. Last but not least is the Epson 440 is the loudest thing on mother earth, the thing rattles hums and shakes every time it squezes a print out which makes it difficult to get along with. On contrast most HP printers are very Quiet. So here is my final scoop, if you are short on cash and need a decent printer to get you by, try the Epson 440, but if you have the money spend it on a higher model HP printer.
Rating:
Summary: A hard working unit.
Review: I have had a great time with this unit, over 10,000 copies.
Now I`m on the 2nd. one, I`m now getting ready to buy the 3rd. one from egghead.com.
I want to be sure that there is a spare on hand when needed.
The color could be some what better, but overall I`m very happy with this product.
Rating:
Summary: Epson Workhorse
Review: I paid [purchased] this printer over 5 years ago. We have never had a problem with it. Prints nice pictures, but is more suited for school or work projects. We throw away HP's @ work every 6 months. I'll stick with Epson.
Rating:
Summary: Epson Workhorse
Review: I paid [purchased] this printer over 5 years ago. We have never had a problem with it. Prints nice pictures, but is more suited for school or work projects. We throw away HP's @ work every 6 months. I'll stick with Epson.
Rating: 
Summary: Nothing but trouble
Review: I realize that not every printer will be as bad as mine, but I have had a plethora of problems. The on/off light burned out within 2 weeks. Practically every time I print something, I have to clean or realign the nozzles. For a while, the printer wouldn't work unless it was turned on before the computer. And if this is being miserly with ink, I'd hate to see what regular ink use is! You get what you pay for, I suppose.
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