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Summary: Pleasantly surprised - I LOVE IT!
Review: --I've spent a week or so reading and rereading online reviews and product descriptions, and going around to stores to see printers and ask questions. It didn't matter what product it was - someone online hated it and others online loved it. I finally decided to just bite the bullet, buy it, and see for myself. I LOVE THIS PRINTER!
-- Setup was fast and pleasant - and when I had a question, I had the tech help on the line within a minute or less. Printed out a picture on plain ol' everyday paper (HP/92 brightness), expecting to just toss it out as a test. But it was beautiful enough to keep - couldn't believe it. It was fast and easy too. I can only imagine how nice pictures will be on photo paper - and I'll be able to easily take old family negatives or old snapshots and make fresh looking photos - it has a simple auto restore funtion.
--Then I tried a black and white text page, expecting that I'd see the poor quality someone in a review had mentioned. Wrong! It turned out beautiful! "But," I thought, "Aha! That was just tiny print in a cursive font - I'll try size 12 text in an everyday Arial font, and then I'll see this poor quality those reviews mentioned." And guess what? It turned out just as beautiful. Maybe I happen to have exactly the right computer and operating system to be compatible with it, I don't know...
--I find this printer fast, clean, and even FUN! If you want to do production printing of some kind, this might not be the printer for you - but for a home user, I can't imagine what more I could want.
--By the way, I'm using a Mac G3 notebook computer, and I got a Bluetooth adaptor for about $40 to have the option of using this as a *wireless* printer. If someone in my family who doesn't have Bluetooth in his computer wants to use it wireless, all he has to do is buy another $40 Bluetooth adaptor to add to his computer.
--PLUS, although it has no fax, an Epson rep told me I can fax with it in connection with my computer's software - and for someone who only faxes occasionally, that's just fine.
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Summary: Was only in market for new scanner, but...
Review: As a graphic designer, I'm ALWAYS skeptical of anything that claims to be able to do "everything"...Initially, I was in the market for a new scanner - I thumbed through some recent issues of MacWorld to try and find something decent and reasonably priced. I then stumbled upon a review for the RX500, because I also wanted to replace my clunky HP Deskjet- which was no good at printing photos, and it couldn't even do text that well either! Why was I keeping this thing?! I went to CompUSA with the RX500 in mind, and there happened to be an EPSON rep. there, coincidentally in the process of selling an RX600 to someone else. Well, this person was ranting and raving over how great this printer was, and my wife and I just happened to overhear it. You married guys know how important it is to have the wife's blessing, don't you? Well, a couple of photo demonstrations and some copy tests, and we were walking out the door with an RX600 of our own! I only gave it four stars, because I'm just way too critical of any photos & color prints that don't turn out perfect. But that's my profession, not a reflection on the product. I should have my wife write the review, because she's absolutely *thrilled* with the prospects of scanning & printing old negatives & slides, and printing directly from the camera's memory stick- no need for the nitpicky husband and his crazy Photoshop...
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Summary: Since when did faxing and photography go hand in hand? HA!
Review: Faxes being of quaternary importance to Epson, this is --- beyond a shadow of a doubt --- the most photographic joy you can ever achieve for $300. What encompasses the term "all-in-one" is completely subjective. The folks that have decided to not even actually write about the sheer outstanding quality of this product, yet bash it for not having a stupid fax machine both don't understand good products on the market and are utterly ignorant. To be honest, I've had reviews deleted on Amazon for speaking the truth about certain products, and I'm highly offended that Amazon hasn't removed reviews such as the ones about the RX600 which don't mention anything objective at all about the machine. Stop ranting and open your eyes to the positive aspects of this machine, because the Canon MP780 and HP 2610 can't even match the superior structure and quality of this device. Stop worrying about defining "ALL" and hook this sucker up. Scan 35mm film and negatives; by the way all you FAX MANIACS out there, Epson brought an award-winning feature here to their "all-in-ones" ... and since no other brand's machines can scan and redevelop slides and film, I guess they wouldn't be "all-in-ones" either then, right? Hmmmm .... anyhow, unmatched 5760x1440 dpi printing, waterproof, smudge resistant ink (something Canon and HP will never offer the user), and the ability to restore your oldest of photographs within a few minutes are reasons enough to own this machine.
Understand everyone that Epson's concern is not office products. Go buy a Canon, HP, Lexmark, or Brother if you whole-heartedly need a fax. But don't get on Amazon and pollute the minds of those who need to look no further for the most robust, outstanding photo-producing "ALL-IN-ONE" on the planet.
P.S. And to the amazon public, Epson consumables are NOT more expensive than HP. At $87 for the entire six cartridges and $114 for the four HP's can use (including their grey carts) and given Epson and Canon machines cost 40% less to maintain than equivalent HP and Lexmark models, it should be obvious which machines to consider. Check out Tom's Hardware and look up the HP 8150, Epson R300 (uses same ink as RX600), and the Canon Pixma 5000 if you doubt any of this.
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Summary: Fantastic printer/scanner, twitchy Mac software
Review: I bought this when I had a PCI Graphics G4 Macintosh (Yikes!), and the software was a stone B!tch to get installed. The installer kept crashing under OS 10.3. I eventually was able to figure out which software application was crashing, and was able to manually install it off the CD. After that, everything worked fine. The software still will not support faxing from within OS 10.x, you have to save the file, and then open up Preview to send the fax.
Overall, this is a great all-in-one. The scans are excellent, the scan speed is quick, and the software is good, although the default to Auto mode is really irritating until you manage to switch it off.
The print quality is what I come to expect from Epson. This printer cleans itself less frequently than my old Stylus Photo 780, and is quieter, more stable, better in general.
I haven't played around with digital photo capacity/slide scanning, being new to the digital photo field. Overall I am satisfied with the purchase, though I wish their software was better.
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Summary: Excellent Unit Minor Paper Compatibility
Review: I had always used HP (with it all my HP paper) and then after the complete disaster with my Photosmart 7660 I decided to try Epson. After looking thru several Epson printers that worked with MAC Os I found this great all in one, but then when it got home i tried printing on my infinite supply of HP Double Sided Brochure Paper but it didn't work with any of the pre-sets in the printing window. So now I have almost 50 sheets of this paper that i cannot use. Besides that is an excellent printer with excellent printing quality
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Summary: Epson RX600 - A standalone photo lab in a box!
Review: I have had my RX600 for a couple of weeks now, and think it is amazing. WITHOUT USING A COMPUTER, you can copy B&W or color documents that look fine and come out pretty soon after you push the button. However, when printing PHOTOS, this thing is LOTS better than Kodak's printing system in drug stores. It reads virtually any memory card. It reads cameras, CD's, and hard drives via USB on front. It scans color slides, negatives, B&W negatives and makes FANTASTICALLY RICH prints from them. With the tilting color LCD on the front you can crop and zoom photos before printing. It can scan or copy to CD's, memory cards, USB flash, etc, using its front USB port. Also has a Bluetooth adapter option that plugs in the same USB port. Amazing feature: Print thumbnail preview sheets and blacken circles under pictures you want. Stick these sheets in the scanner and it prints out only your choices! Naturally it's a great computer printer and scanner. You want to fax? Use it with your computer's modem.
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Summary: Epson RX600 - A standalone photo lab in a box!
Review: I have had my RX600 for a couple of weeks now, and think it is amazing. WITHOUT USING A COMPUTER, you can copy B&W or color documents that look fine and come out pretty soon after you push the button. However, when printing PHOTOS, this thing is LOTS better than Kodak's printing system in drug stores. It reads virtually any memory card. It reads cameras, CD's, and hard drives via USB on front. It scans color slides, negatives, B&W negatives and makes FANTASTICALLY RICH prints from them. With the tilting color LCD on the front you can crop and zoom photos before printing. It can scan or copy to CD's, memory cards, USB flash, etc, using its front USB port. Also has a Bluetooth adapter option that plugs in the same USB port. Amazing feature: Print thumbnail preview sheets and blacken circles under pictures you want. Stick these sheets in the scanner and it prints out only your choices! Naturally it's a great computer printer and scanner. You want to fax? Use it with your computer's modem.
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Summary: No Fax equals NOT all-in-one ..... heartily agree
Review: I will have to agree with the misleading terminology of "all-in-one". The first "all-in-one's" were by HP and included the fax function; hence, the term all-in-one. To provide less is false and misleading.
I am currently looking for a replacement for my HP all-in-one as the interface software SUCKS. HP does NOT know how to write good printer drivers/interfaces ..... yet they are the leader (for the most part) of the printer business.
Epson is good, great ...... but this printer is VERY misleading, as are any that use the all-in-one terminology without including a fax as part of it ........ I know, I was being mis-lead and will now have to re-think my selection of printers.
By the way ....... WHO on earth would every have a separate fax machine in addition to these "all-in-one's"??? Does everyone have an abundance of space?
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Summary: BROKEN.
Review: I've had mine for 2 months.. at the most. It's totally dead, won't turn on, nothing. I've tried all sorts of things to bring it back to life, no luck. Don't buy this printer.
I've had a little HP Deskjet for 10 years, works perfectly, never had a problem with it. I guess I'll be going back to HP.
Peice of junk. I would beat this printer with a hammer if I didn't have the warranty. I'm so mad at this printer!!! BROKEN!!! ALL THAT MONEY AND IT'S BROKEN!!!! AHHH!!! I FEEL USED!!!
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Summary: Excellent at everything it claims it can do; doesn't fax.
Review: The RX600 has a small color display that makes it easier to print directly from a camera memory card, and you can see more options at once for copying and other things than on the tiny b/w LCD display of the RX500.
The two things that tilted me in favor of the Epson were the ability to scan from slides and negatives, and having six separate ink wells so you don't waste ink/money replacing 3-color cartridges when only one color is empty; in addition, you don't have to switch cartridges to print photos, as on the HP PSC 2410, the other printer I was considering, where you obviously have to switch back afterward, which didn't appeal to me. It's not that big of a deal to switch ink cartridges as much as the mess would be if the kids weren't careful--sometimes the cartridges get ink buildup on the bottom. Still, I would definitely recommend considering the HP PSC 2410, since your needs/tolerances may differ.
The HP 2410 has the small color screen included for a lower cost than the Epson. It also faxes. Somehow I had assumed they both could fax, but the Epson can't, which is annoying.
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