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Summary: Ink cost will make you broke! No refills/generics allowed!
Review: This is the worst printer I've ever owned. I actually got rid of it after just a few months and bought another brand! Three main reasons why I don't recommend this printer. 1) It gobbles up ink. 2) It is slow. 3) The ink is proprietary, non refillable, and expensive. I usually only print black and white documents and the printer uses up all my color ink too, even when I have "black ink only" in the print options. The color ink runs out the same time as the black ink does and I don't even print in color! This is because the printer has a wasteful nozzle cleaning session each time the printer is turned on. (The color cartridge must be installed even when just printing B&W or it won't operate) This is a long nozzle cleaning session which brings me to my next complaint. Let's say you want to print one or two pages of something. It takes the printer a long time to warm up and clean the nozzle (even if you didn't print anything the day before). 45-60 seconds for your first page. My prints jobs even get blotchy even when the ink tank is 1/4 full. The ink tank has a smart chip which prevents the printer from operating when the ink registers empty. This means you can not refill the ink tanks. (Unless you have some aftermarket electronic gizmo to reset/reprogram the ink tank.) The ink is expensive, so I bought a generic ink tank and the printer does not recognize it and won't print. Only uses expensive proprietary ink. Don't play the Epson game! To give Epson the benefit of the doubt; since this is called a photo printer, it might be possible for this printer to be a good printer for someone who mostly prints photos and has a large budget for ink.
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Summary: This printer wants your money
Review: My old Canon Ink Jet broke down last month so I purchased an Epson Photo Stylus 820. First I noticed that it refused to print blank pages. I was trying to print a double sided document and the Epson kept skipping blank sheets so that page 12 was on the back of page 7. But perhaps there is a way to fix that and I just couldn't find it. The fatal error is that it wants me to feed it money to continue printing. I just got off the phone with Epson technical support who told me the printer cannot print unless you have a color cartridge and the printer thinks it has ink in it. Even if you only want to print text in black the printer demands a new color cartridge. My old Canon would let me print black only and would print well beyond what it thought was empty. However, the Epson is too smart or too greedy to let me do that. The color cartridge still appears to have ink but the printer claims it doesn't and won't let me print. This printer is headed for the trash can where it belongs.
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Summary: DON'T BUY THIS PRINTER!!
Review: Hi - this printer is a piece of doo-doo. This is my first Epson printer, and will probably be my last. At *least* once a week the heads become clogged, and I have to use a ton on my GENUINE Epson ink to clean them. Yup...I'm using the stuff recommended by the people who built this clunker. Yes, when you get to print, photos are beautiful, but you're going to be buying so much ink it's not worth it in the least. Stay far away from this no-good machine.
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Summary: CONTINUOUSLY CLOGGED PRINT HEADS - BUY A CANON INSTEAD.
Review: I bought the Epson 820 as my husband, daughter and sister have the Epson 600 and 640 and have been very happy with them. I wanted a printer to print photos, make cards etc. However, right from the start the 820 got clogged print heads and needs to be cleaned before it will print correctly. At first I thought it was because I was only using it every couple of weeks, but I found out this was not the case when I printed approximately 200 business cards (and of course it took me multiple cleanings before I could begin to print the business cards). All this should have cleaned out the print heads real good, but the next morning when I tried to print more business cards the color was all messed up (which wasted a whole sheet of my business card paper). I did a print nozzle check and the printer wasn't printing dark pink or light pink at all and the black was very streaked. After several print head cleanings and test patterns it finally started to print correctly again, but of course this wastes a lot of ink and should not be necessary to do. (You can buy generic cartridges on the Internet for a fraction of the name brand which helps with the cost, but the Epson still is an ink hog.) Also I have never owned a printer where each time I want to use it I have to print a test copy to make sure it isn't clogged rather than waste a sheet of photo paper, card paper, etc. My business printer (CANON 6000) recently began to wear out so I didn't even consider buying another Epson printer. I purchased the CANON 1850. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE CANON 1850 PRINTER!!! It is by far the quietest printer that I have witnessed, the quality of the print jobs is EXCELLENT, the print heads do not clog, and the ink cartridges are very large. (You can also buy generic ink cartridges for the Canon on the Internet for a fraction of the name brand.) The Canon 1850 uses separate ink cartridges and the cartridges are large. I used to think that Epson was a very high quality brand of printer, but after my experience with the Epson 820 I will stick with Canon printers. I have always used Canon printers with my business computer and I am real sorry that I bought the Epson 820 to use with my play computer.
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Summary: Good at first. Ink clogs happen often. Waste ink!!
Review: Like other users. It was fine at first then after awhile I had to run the cleaning cycle over and over again just to get decent results. DOnt get this printer stick with something else. Canons are great and the ink is very cheap.
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Summary: Total disappointment!
Review: For these few months I've owned this printer only two first weeks were trouble-free, all the rest of the time it was clogged in the any way possible. It is usually one-two weeks interval while it is working, after that one of the colors disappears. One cleaning procedure doesn't help, I've usually repeat it for the five-six times and no results. Very often after cleaning cycles results even worse then before. I've noticed sometimes cleaning doesn't help, but it magically starts working on other day. This printer has its own temper, and it never prints when you want :( and you never know will you be so lucky today to get something decent out of it.
Overall picture quality is pretty good. It likes only Epson paper, when I've tried HP Premium Photo paper I didn't get any good results.
Considering overall quality and reliability I would never recommend this printer to anyone, as well as any Epson at all. This is the first and last Epson for me, it's for sure!
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Summary: Stay away from this printer
Review: I bought this printer as a home office unit since it has the same print heads and specifications as the larger professional quality 1270 and 1280 which I have in my studio. This printer has been fraught with trouble. Mainly with the inks. It clogs almost daily and I have to run it through the cleaning cycle which consumes the ink. I end up replacing the ink cartidges almost monthly and all I'm printing is email and quick brochures. You'd be better off heading over to the Hewlett Packard printers. On top of all of this, good luck getting anywhere with Epson customer service.
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Summary: Don't wast your money !
Review: As stated by many others this printer does a good job printing, but it wastes ink like crazy. If you let it set for more than a couple of days it clogs up and sometimes takes 10+ cleaning cycles to get it to work again. That is if it doesn't empty the cartridge during cleaning. Pros:Does very nice photos,cheap to buy
Cons:Clogs too much,uses too much ink,doesn't hold much ink,refills too expensive=cost of ownership WAY too high I had one for a little over a year, and I finally had enough and got a Canon S820 to replace it. If you're thinking about buying the Epson do yourself a favor and get the Canon instead.You will be MUCH happier. Just read the reviews of the Canon on here.
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Summary: Not a good choice
Review: Not a good choice in terms of quality. The nozzle of the printer needs constant cleaning to get rid of white lines. But when you clean it and print out the patterns to check results, it use up the inks. It takes about 4 times to fully clean the nozzle which consumes 10% of a newly replaced ink cartridge. I am a disappointed user and would not recommend this product.
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Summary: Save your money
Review: I've had a number of inkjet printers over the years, but this is by far the worst one I've owned. Text quality is acceptable, and the photo quality is better than my old HP 720. The real problem is the usage of ink, particularly the black cartridges used for plain old text printing. We are going through 1 every week or two with very modest output. We used to get at least 8 weeks from the HP 720 with similar test output. I had seen a few people post that the ink usage seemed excessive, but this is ridiculous. We have spent more on black ink in the past 3 months than the cost of the printer. One other negative is that this is a fairly noisy printer, but I can live with the niose, but not the cost of the cartridges. Buyer beware !
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