Rating: 
Summary: Great value
Review: I have had an Epson Photo printer before (785 EPX). I liked it very much but it finally died on me. The 820 is a real nice machine - great quality photos. Its very easy to use the software - real hassle free.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't Buy It!
Review: I have had my Epson for about three months. At the beginning it worked okay and the print quality was decent. I have not used it to print a photo, so I cannot comment on that. The printer is very noisy and, as stated by another, uses tons of ink. The inkjets are divided into black and then the three colors, so if use up all of your magenta or cyan, for example, you have to replace all three colors. This is very wasteful and costly. Additionally, the inkjets are constantly clogging up and they run out of ink very quickly. The inkjet replacement price is pretty average, but you cannot refill them, which is also wasteful. Let me reiterate that this printer is VERY NOISY! I am very disappointed and surprised that Apple computers would be linked to such a shabby product. I'll steer clear of Epson from now on.
Rating:
Summary: Worst Printer
Review: I have had this printer for a year now. It's one of the worst printers I have ever had. Ink is EXPENSIVE, and if you don't use it often, the ink dries up. My XP system finally will not recognize it.
Rating: 
Summary: What do you expect?
Review: I have had this printer for almost 2 years. I use the cheapest ink I can find and YES I use it with XP.
I think it is JUST FINE. If you want upscale prints buy an upscale printer. I have another Epson printer that I tried to use tech support and EPSON TECH SUPPORT is equivilant to DRUNK MONKEYS....at best. I find OEM Epson ink is horrible. CLogs worse than anything and is stupidly expensive. BUY GENERIC.
Try Voltexx.com for cheap ink.
I have let this printer sit for weeks (6-8) and used it. YES I have to run headcleaning several times. But I buy CHEAP INK !!!!
NUFF SAID.
Rating: 
Summary: Rivals film prints
Review: I haven't done alot of printing even tho I bought this back at the beginning of the year. Recently bought an Olympus 3020 and printed some "1st day of school" pictures. I use Epson photo quality inkjet paper to do a first print test (720 dpi), then print final on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper (1440 dpi). If I put the "test" pics in a frame, no one would know that they were not printed at a lab. The glossy's (8x10s and 5x7s) fool everyone I show - if I didn't tell them it was on my printer, they'd never know (of course the camera helps too). Haven't seen a need to use the 2880 dpt yet. Mine came with software Film Factory which is semi-easy to learn but easy to use after that. Even tho a full sheet of paper could hold 2 - 5x7s or 4 - 4x6s, the s/w won't let me lay the print out that way. I get 2 5x7s by printing one at very top, then turn paper upside down and print again (after 1st print is dry). If it's not used often, the heads can become clogged. Does go through ink, so I always have replacement ready (color mostly - have yet to replace the BW). I only use for photo printing. Have another for text so cannot say how it does there. Using the USB port and can't really say I've ever timed a print. I usually go and do something else while I wait - I had a print freeze after 2/3 done when I went to do something else on the PC at the same time, so now I just leave it alone (system is W2k, AMD XP 1800, 512 DDR memory so the system is not anemic). Had a few problems trying to get the USB driver set up and recognizing the printer, but after a few attempts at loading the drivers it all came together. Even w/these few problems, it deserves a 5.
Rating:
Summary: DO NOT BUY!!!
Review: I must admit this printer gives very good quality. And there it ends. If you don't want to make the same mistake as I did don't do the following:
1. Do not think that you will take care of printer and it will not clog - I've been manually parking the head after each printing, I've been using only brand ink, I've been printing head check pattern every time after I turn it on. After one or two cleaning cycles first photo comes out Ok, second or third - without black (like it clogs while printing). It eats expensive ink + photo paper. About 1/3 of all prints need to be reprinted.
2. Do not think ink is less expensive than HP because of permanent print head - with all of those reprints and head cleaning cycles.
3. Do not think the quality such great - if you printing with 1200 dpi prints will have linear pattern, you have to go for 2700 dpi. It is Ok but this is about 10-12 borderless letter size prints per $20 cartridge. When I asked Epson representative in local store about it he answered: "Digital photo prints had never supposed to be cheap". Well, with this attitude I'd rather look somewhere else. With 1200 dpi, i you can live with banding it will go for 20-25 borderless.
4. Again - If you don't want to throw away printer right after starter cartridge ends, don't buy it.
BTW. before this one I tested 825 - the same ... Better go for HP or Canon - both are more reliable and cheaper at the end.
Rating:
Summary: Great value
Review: I purchased this epson a few weeks ago. I have printed over 75 pages of photos. All have turned out beautifully. This printed does use alot of ink but I imagine that high priced machines would use the same amount if not more.
Rating:
Summary: Avoid an any cost!!!
Review: I remember writing review 3-4 months back. It just disappeared!!! Is this financed from Epson? Or Amazon trying to make people buy this sh#$? I had nothing but bad experience with these printers. First one finally clogged after 5 months and I could not do anything with it. Epson sent replacement. Same story but in addition it smears - magenta became gray. I am going to ask for replacement once again. This is not cheap primer to run. And this is not the printer to print charts. For charts and text there is Cxx series printer. Be prepared to have terrible text and graphics on anything but special coated or photo paper with this printer. And be prepared to spend $1-$1.5 dollar worth of ink per letter size print when printing photographs - if you are lucky and it does not clog. Salespeople from Epson in stores don't know what they sell and they tell you anything to make you buy just Epson - more expensive is better. In some cases they blame HP/Canon and others for their far better product by simply hiding the truth and lie. Now each time I see this guy is store I always help him to be honest and always helping people choose the best product: Canon or HP
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Summary: Works great with Red Hat Linux 7.3!
Review: I was looking for a printer that meets following requirements for quite some time and I finally found one! 1) Photo Printer
2) [Affordable]
3) Compatible with Red Hat Linux 7.3 This printer met all my requirements and exceeded my expectation!
Rating:
Summary: Worst Printer Ever Owned
Review: I was looking to upgrade from an old HP 672. I had heard some good things about Epson printers and the research I did seemed to indicate that this would be a good buy. I guess sometimes no matter how much you do your research you can still get a lemon. I have had nothing but issues with this printer from day one. For one it seems to have to go through some kind of obscure primitive ritual when you hit the print button. It does this crazy back an forth dance for about 15 secs before finally sucumbing to your will and print what you requested. The biggest issue I have with this printer is that if it sits without printing for more than a day the inkjets clog and you have to sit through at least two head cleaning sessions to get the thing to print clearly. Unless of course you don't mind blank lines through your text.
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