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Summary: Very frustrating -- bad design on Epson's part
Review: I bought this printer in late October so I could boost my home photo printing and to possibly use the print on disk feature. Well, after a few days I was very discouraged to find out that it had an error every single time I tried to print. It would say to check the printer documentation on how to solve the error, but that would never work. I did, however get 20 good quality pictures in about 3 minutes each picture I'd say...that's the only reason why I give it a one star (I would give it 0/5 stars, but you can only give it 1). ...This product may be good for others, but it was not the printer for me. Everyone I've talked to talks so highly about it and says the quality is great, performence and everything, however I just didn't have that experience and therefore I very much dislike it, even if I am 1/1000 that got a defective. I'm trying to provide you people with the experience I had, and I should NOT come across as being vein, arrogant or illogiced. ...
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Summary: RGB instead of CMYK!?!
Review: I bought this printer to replace my epson 1270 and it was a definite improvement. Extreme quite, even better photo quality, but that's the catch. It can only print RGB files, my CMYK turns out truely horrible. 600 dpi looks like really low res web pics. And yes, I double checked all the trouble shoots. Has anyone else had this problem?
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Summary: A damn good printer
Review: I bought this to replace m old 744. I gotta say that my old 744 was a good photo printer. But man this printer blows it away. I had a lab do a 5x7 for me and then printed the same photo on kodax ultima paper. The printout I feel was better then the lab print. You can't go wrong with epson printers for photos.
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Summary: GREAT Printer
Review: I had an Epson Stylus 660, which was an older model, slow, noisy. So I upgraded to the R300, WOW. It is also very quiet, has seperate ink cartriges and I have had no problems with it. Pictures come out beautifully!! And as an extra bonus you can print on CDs.
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Summary: Great inkjet printer
Review: I had an HP Deskjet 952 that was starting to make noise when loading paper and decided to start looking around for a new printer. I never was satisfied with the blockiness of the blacks on HP photos and I was impressed with the samples that I had seen from the Epson photo printers. I bought this one because of the photo printing and the CD printing. I hate CD labels. I'd rather use a CD pen and write on the CD.
Bottom line, this printer has performed well, printed great photos and I didn't see any problem printing text. The CD printing worked well and I love it. The price is low which is a great thing. Technology improves so quickly. We don't need to be investing major bucks in highly replaceable hardward like printers.
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Summary: Best Epson Printer so far
Review: I had purchase the Epson Photo 900 printer because I really wanted CD/DVD printer capabilities. I also wanted it to do a nice job of photo printing. Several weeks after purchasing the 900, I saw the R300 in action and kind of kicked myself for not doing some extra research before buying the 900. I finally sold the 900 on ebay and purchased the R300. Let me tell you this, every aspect of this printer is simply awesome. I am using this with MacOS X and it is simply flawless. The CD/DVD printing is 10 times better then the 900, the media reader works perfect, the computer-less printing works amazing, design of how you go about printing onto CD/DVD is superior over the 900 or any other product in this price range I have seen. The only exception to this printer would probably be the R300M which has the color preview monitor. BTW, the photo quality output of this printer is literally second to none. I have seen this compared against HP and Canon and it holds well against both!!! If you are looking for an awesome all around printer at only $180, this is definitely the way to go!!!
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Summary: zero stars
Review: I hate this printer. I wasted my money. Having 6 ink cartridges is a nightmare as it will not print if you are out of ANY of the cartridges. Even if you tell it to print black ink only, and light magenta happens to be out, it will not print anything. It is slow to print. It uses a strange TSR on your windows computer. It alerts you too much before just printing. Who wants to configure a hundred things just to print something? DO NOT BUY!!!!!!!
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Summary: great photo print out but not the best
Review: I have own both R300 and i960, I compared both photo print out and i could clearly see the difference especially the big droplets on the R300 print out. If you want the sharpest picture quality go with Canon because their printers do 2 picoliter droplets.
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Summary: problems from day 1!!
Review: I have read an awful lot of positive reviews about the epson r300 so I believed I was making a 5 star purchase. From day one, I had problems. It seems that a large job (over 1 copy) is impossible when using photo paper. The printer will not feed the paper, the screen reads paper jam when there is none and you must keep resetting. It sounds trivial but is actually quite frustrating. Since I have had the printer, I have made 20-30 copies most being excel documents AND YELLOW INK IS OUT ALREADY! DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT PRINT ANYTHING EVEN BLACK AND WHITE if one color cartridge is out? In my opinion, multiple cartridges is pointless when one color outage shuts down all opertations. The quality of the prints is Ok but surely not the greatest. When people compare images that I have printed from this printer with those I printed from the free HP pavilion that came with the computer- everyone thinks the HP is crisp, clear and perfect. So I must give Epson a thumbs down. If I had only kept the box, I would have taken this Epson back to the store in a heartbeat.
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Summary: ? about the cd printer
Review: I just bought the printer a few weeks ago. I bought it for the Cd disc printing. They look great. The instructions say you have to use printable cd's only. I was wondering has anyone tried to print a cd label on a regular cd, and if so, how was the outcome? I know they say not to use a un-printable cd, but will it distroy the printer if you do? Will the ink just run off the regular cd surface? I like the printer, photo's look great, but i do feel it is slow at printing the job.
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