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Summary: Wonderful for color, dreadful for black and white
Review: I have used the Epson 2200 for one year. It is a solidly constructed, durable printer that provides uncompromisingly good color prints with excellent detail and startling saturation. Unfortunately, I bought this machine to make black-and-white prints, and had high hopes for its matte black, photo black and light black system to provide superior monochrome output. Epson certainly advertised that the 2200 would provide it. It does nothing of the kind. It is manifestly impossible to make neutral black and white prints without expensive, additional driver software, a fact which Epson is careful not to mention. Without an RIP, the prints all have pervasive metamerism and color casts, usually an annoying overall green or magenta hue. I finally got lovely black and white prints only by replacing the Ultrachrome inkset with Sundance Septone (third-party) inks. My suggestion is that no one should waste time or money trying to get good black and white prints from the 2200 out of the box. You are certain to be disappointed.
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Summary: Great Printer
Review: My Canon S900 died... and I went with the Epson. It is just a fantastic printer. You will probably see a lot of posts about banding, complaining that it doesn't work well with other papers... that's normal for a high quality printer. The Canon was the same- any paper Other than Canon and the prints look terrible. Epson has a large assortment of papers/sizes; much more than Canon. The only problem I encountered was trying to connect it via USB with an external hub. It wouldn't work. It seems very sensitive to cable length as well, as I was not able to use a long (10ft) cable with it. If you have problems where the printer seems to lock up while printing, take a look at the USB connection. I can't wait to do some real B&W printing with this machine.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: This printer is a gem for professionals and amateurs alike! The ink is a bit expensive (Around $9.95 for each of the seven cartridges) and seems to run out fast, but you can't beat the quality of the prints. A MUST HAVE!
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Summary: Buy the extended warranty
Review: This printer makes great photos. I bought this printer in August of 2002 and 15 months later the main printer head went bad. I took it to a authorized service center and was told the repair part would be $300.00 plus $100.00 labor (which I had to pay in advance) then later told the part is unavailable.
I don't want to give up on this printer it has done such a great job. The reason I purchased this printer was the great reviews for photos and I needed a wide format for drawings of cabinets and furniture I design.
I only wish I would have paid the extra for the extended warranty. If need be I will purchase another 2200 printer
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Summary: great printer, pitiful support
Review: This printer gets a great review and prints great photos but.... just opened and set up the printer and the setup CD doesn't work. I had to download what appear to be the drivers. There is no online support, only a phone line that puts you on hold forever or you can send them a snail mail letter. Pitiful for a supposed tech company.
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Summary: Near or at....
Review: I've been in photography for nearly thirty five years an have been waiting for the moment when I did not have to make excuses why my inkjet images did not compare to dye based photographs. With the Epson 2200 that moment has finally arrived.
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Summary: Three words: Matte, semigloss, premium luster
Review: Okay, that's four words. But three types of paper. Unless you print psychedelic computer art, avoid the premium glossy as there's a lot of "bronzing" - the gloss black ink dries flat and stands out at angles compared to the glossy color inks. While this looks nice in some instances (computer art and especially fireworks photography), it detracts in others. Premium luster, premium semigloss, and matte do not exhibit this problem at all and yield SPECTACULAR prints that'll last as long as real photo-developed prints and dyesub printouts, if not longer (according to Epson's and 3rd party tests, using Epson paper and Epson inks - don't use generic ink because it's not the same and it'd likely ruin the printer too.) What else can be said? It's slow, but given the depth and detailed resolution, it's not going to be fast. It's well worth the wait.
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Summary: Great Printer
Review: I wish I would have purchased this printer sooner.Right out of the box I got nice prints,it's great to print 11x14.I don't like the results on Premuin glossy but I knew that going into this purchase.Best price was Amazon,you won't be dissappoited with this printer.
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Summary: Worth the bucks
Review: I have an Olympus P400 (dye sub), an Epson 900 and this Epson 2200. They are all great printers. The P400 Dye sub is awesome, but can't print the big images. Using the 2200, the velvet paper (matte) produced the prettiest pictures I've seen at large sizes using the 2880 dpi print setting. Luster was nice, but I think I preferred the matte stock. The 2200 is easy to load; easy instructions, easy set up. Easy to use. The PPDs work well with IPhoto and the Epson photo program that it comes with. Printing through Photoshop proved to be disappointing, even with the PPD. Do what you need to in PS, save and import into Epson's program or IPhoto before printing (based on OSX trials through my G4). Will need to buy a cable. Suggest getting extra ink cartridges and paper up front -- you'll want to play once you have it in your hands.
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Summary: Professional grade photos.
Review: This printer isn't for the average user, it isn't exactly "intuitive" or "user friendly". What it is the best photographic grade printer you can currently get for under eight hundred bucks. All of the professional photographers I know either have this printer or are planning to get one. I personally have printed nearly 400 images on the machine and most are at least twice as good as any chemical process photograph. As for the fabled "bronzing, just switch Pictorico brand paper and it's gone as well as giving you better images to boot! A friend has the Canon 9900 and it is very good but can't handle the subtle of color that the 2200 does. If you want archival prints that are better than what any custom color lab can give you then you want the Epson 2200.
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