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Summary: I agree. Awful!
Review: Yup. Same problem here - a handful of good shots over the course of a few weeks, then...*WHAM* Sorry, no more output. Ink starts banding. Colors don't print. Black is a mess. I tried cleaning the nozzles, buying all new ink, cleaning the nozzles again, running a bunch of high-ink, high-color print jobs. No luck! This printer is a P.O.S.! I will never buy another Epson as long as I live. My HP lasted for years. This printer lasted a month. It's amazing that a product like this is even allowed to hit the shelves. Where's the Q.A. Department at Epson? Smokin' wacky tobbaci out in the parking lot. That's where. Get it together, Epson!
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Summary: Paradigmatic Printer Rip Off
Review: "Why should a zero-stars review be possible?" Epson Stylus Printers; I rest my case.Printer rip off perfected. Paradigmatic. Just take $150 and light a match to it rather than spend it on this. Save yourself the trouble of unpacking it and the insults of its pitiful performance. Or I guess you could buy it and drive it straight to the landfill if you can't stand to actually burn $150 in US Currency, which I think may be a crime anyway. So I guess the best advice is to simply not buy it.
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Summary: Expensive with short life
Review: Worked great for the first few months, then i had to buy new ink cartridges. The most expensive ink cartridges ever, and they are soo tiny they hardly hold any ink. Severe banding started halfway through the second set of cartidges and no amount of head cleaning would fix it. Now still into the 3rd set of cartridges and the printer is pretty much garbage, I use ti mainly to print drafts. Sadly this was the case with my last epson printer as well. I think epson needs to rethink the way it designs printers.
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Summary: Great photo quality - when it has ink
Review: This printer has superb photo-quality printing for printers in its price range. The text quality is acceptable but not fantastic.
The ink cartridge nozzles dry out after about 2 days of inactivity, requiring an ink-consuming process of nozzle checks and head cleanings. The software indicating ink status estimates "pages remaining" but frequently misrepresents new cartridges as low, and older cartridges as empty when they continue to print. And the ink status levels inexplicably drain down from day to day without prints occuring.
All in all, this printer is junk. While the photo quality continues to impress me, it takes too much fussy cleanings, maintenance, and trips to the store to buy ink than should be required for a reliable piece of machinery in the 21st century.
Avoid it and similar Epson printers.
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Summary: PIECE OF ..... JUNK
Review: This product is definitely a mistake in the printer industry. I'm not quite sure what those guys at EPSON were doing. I spent half of the ink simply trying to clean up the head, because the printer head was always clogged (still is too)!!!! DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT!!! Just throw it in the garbage!!!
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Summary: Extremely frustrated. Won't buy another Epson printer.
Review: I wish I had done more research before buying my cheapie printer. All this Epson does is eat up ink. Within a couple weeks, I had trouble with nozzles clogging. (as mentioned by many other reviewers) This printer has a smart chip too. You can't print when one cartridge runs out of ink and you are supposed to use only Epson ink cartridges. I initially stuck with Epson cartridges. The printer would clog if you didn't print every three seconds (not once a week as the manual says), I don't think it matters what cartridge you use. Epson's cartridges clog as well as cheaper replacement cartridges. I almost always have to clean the nozzles before I print anything. I'm ready to throw this thing out the window. I can't even print in B/W if the color cartridge goes out due to the smart chip. Ahhhhh! It prints great photos when you can get the nozzles cleaned, but since it eats up so much ink cleaning those nozzles, the cost effectiveness of printing your own photos is a joke. Save your money and get a Canoni860, they sound like the best out there or take your CD of images and have a lab print them. That would have to be less costly than this printer.
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Summary: Meh
Review: This is an average printer that is cheap to buy for one reason. They'll make it up on the ink. I am a photographer and have this as a small side printer to a larger 7600. This eats ink faster than any other I've seen. And to go with genuine Epson inks ( the only inks to use for photos ) you pay a lot... and often. I do many 8x10 prints from this machine and I'm lucky to get, say, 10 before the ink light comes on. That's another thing. You are not given much notice to running low. The ink status routinely lies, going from 1/2 full to running out. If I could go back in time, I would have gone with a Canon i860. Seperate ink cartridges are bound to save you money.
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Summary: Good for two weeks
Review: This printer printed the best quality photos I could have imagined. For a few days, test print after test print was great. Once the novelty wore off, I set the printer aside until I needed it, about two weeks later. At that point, the printer was ruined. The print heads were permanently clogged, and no amount of clean cycles, new ink cartridges, and alcohol pads and q-tips could help it. This is absolutely the last Epson I will buy.
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Summary: Junk
Review: Little more than a disposable product. Once you use up the initial cartridges, good luck getting this POS to ever work again. If I could rate it negative stars I would, horrible printer.
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Summary: short life-span
Review: I purchased my Epson Stylus Photo 820 in February of 2002. Within a year I began to experience poor print quality. No amount of troubleshooting or head cleaning would fix the problems. In 2003 the machine began to have trouble grabbing paper, and by October it ceased to work at all. After some online research, I replaced it with a Canon.
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