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Summary: Very Disappointing
Review: I just bought the 1280 and I am extremly disappointed. I had a Canon i9100 for a couple of weeks, but returned it because it didn't print 11x14 borderless prints. The Epson did, so I bought it. Upon comparing the Canon i9100 to the Epson 1280, there really is no comparison. The Canon has vivid, and true color, the Epson prints couldn't come close to the Canon prints no matter what I did. The Canon is lightning fast. Even at it's highest resolution settings. The Epson is painstakingly slow at any setting other than draft mode. I was really hoping the Epson would work out for me, but no such luck. I'm returning the Epson and re-purchasing the Canon i9100. I'll just have to print out at 11x17 and trim off three inches when I need 11x14 prints. The $100 price difference for the Canon is well worth it.
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Summary: Excellent prints, but...
Review: I love the high-quality output of this printer. It's now realistic to go all digital with photography given you have a good camera. Using Epson's Semi-Gloss Photo Paper will result in a print comparable to taking film in to be developed. In some cases, better. I'd give it 5 stars if it weren't for the following:
It's expensive to maintain the ink. Ridiculously, it has one cartridge for all colors (except black) so if you are heavy on the yellow, you can't replace it separately, and have to buy all. And they run out fast. And... it's painfully slow. At full resolution, it seems to take 20-30 minutes to print an 8x10. (Never timed it though)
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Summary: Digital that looks like 35mm
Review: I own a Nikon 990 camera and with this printer photos look like they were taken with my 35mm. Consumables are a bit expensive, but I save a great deal over developing costs so it's pretty much a wash.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I purchased this because everything I read was positive, but I haven't had a positive experience yet. The first printer I had printed Beautiful photo quality prints, when it printed. Unfortunately it would frequently quit mid-print and I would have to turn off the printer or it would hang for days. I went through all options with an Epson Tech.(who was very helpful), I ended up sending it back to Epson and they sent a new one. Unfortunately, I am still having the same problems and this printer doesn't give me near the quality as the first one. By now I am just frustrated and tired of wasting paper and ink! I will probably be moving away from the Epson line because of this. Highly disappointing!
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Summary: E-Mail Purchasing
Review: I received the Epson Photo Stylus 1280... Upon setting up the printer, it did not work at all (on/off switch had no effect). A call to Epson resulted in the tech's judging this particular item to be defective in manufacture; he promised immediatereplacement...
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Summary: Absolutely outstanding
Review: I replaced my Epson 1520 with the 1270 (now 1280). I did this to get higher quality prints that would last a long time without fading. The prints have been nothing short of outstanding. The premium glossy paper is unbelievable in print quality. However, I prefer the heavy weight mat paper due to lower cost. Images are outstanding and the paper is much lower in cost. As for the printer, I have gone through five color ink cartridges with no problems. Sold black areas are black with no banding. This is one of my quality tests of a printer. Banding is unacceptable. The Epson passes with flying colors with an occasional need to use the automatic nozzle cleaning utility. I print 10 by 15 inch prints and measured an output of 22 prints per color cartridge, with about half of the back cartridge being used. This is more surface area of printing than my older model 1520 (which was also nice but not nearly as good). Bottom line is that I see no way to improve this printer.
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Summary: This is an incredible printer
Review: I use the 1280 printer in conjunction with my Olympus e-10 Digital Camera and could not be more pleased.
Finally, I have the ability to take a photograph, print it out at home, and get professional quality.
The only draw back is the amount of ink used. This is still by far, the best printer on the market for the price.
You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: The Epson Stylus Photo 1280 was a great purchase.
Review: I usually only purchase tools from Amazon.com but recently I started shopping around for Photo quality printers. I was set on purchasing a Epson photo quality printer based on their 6 color ink system that provides a better range of colors and blending over the typical 3 color systems of the competition. The customer product reviews through Amazon.com is a great source information. I read all the customer reviews on the Epson Photo 890 and the 1280 before I decided to go with the 1280. The 890 had a 100% satisfied ratting mainly do to it's excellent photo quality printing and price. The 1280 had a 90% satisfaction ratting mainly do to a couple defective printers that needed to be sent back. This is unfortunate for that customer but it has no effect on the printer's quality or capabilities. I then chose the 1280 because it has the ability to print on every size paper from 4x6 to 13x19 which best utilizes the full capability of my Sony 3.1M pixel camera. At home the 1280 set up went very smooth because I followed the easy step directions exactly and I was soon printing excellent looking photo prints. The 1280 is much faster then I expected the 4x6 prints take less then a minute and the largest I have printed so far (11x14) was about four minutes. It is now apparent that the only limiting factor to printing excellent looking photos is the photographer.
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Summary: Awesome indeed!
Review: I'm blown away by the print quality. This is the first time that the traditional darkroom has been challenged by the computer "lightroom". I'll still use the darkroom for black and white prints, but the ease of use, printing options, and print quality in this Epson 1280 have me in awe. Oh, the delight of being able to produce this quality at home!
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Summary: A real disappointment
Review: I've had my printer now for 1.5 years, and have constantly battled with it. I've returned 3 and received 3 refurbished units, all with the same problems...(banding, ink randomly dropped on the photos, constant need to clean the print heads, etc.)...I thought it might be the USB connection, but saw no improvement when I switched it to the parallel port. I do think, however, that it has to do with the computer-printer interface, to have the same problem with 4 different units. I have 80-100 pages that printed so badly that I couldn't use them, which is pretty expensive given the amount of ink the printer consumes. Epson support was of very little help. I too have a friend who gets WONDERFUL prints off of her Epson 1280, but can't figure out why I don't get the same results...
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