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This printer was originally marketed at Sam's Club for $72.00You can buy a current R280 direct for $55.00 and it's much better, even as good as the R200 printed, it certainly is not worth over $72.00 Someone is trying to sell a several years out of production printer for $400.00.
Most have some color but not much. I use this printer mostly for spreadsheets and word documents. The ink just disappears.I'm hooking the HP back up and will use the Epson only when print quality is a serious concern of mine, I replaced an HP 722 with this printer because a friend was very enthusiastic about the the quality of the printing. The quality is very good but I am truly amazed at how much ink the printer uses, even for day-to-day mundane printing.
It seems like I'm replacing a color cartridge every other week. I've been trying to find a color laser all-in-one to replace this and my failing HP all-in-one, but the reviews seem to say that the color photo printing is so-so. 90% of the time I'm using this printer for printing photos. Granted, the cartridges are small and there 6 different colors, but it's a pain and expensive. So I'm hesitant, because I have owned two other color printers (for the purpose of printing photos) that have not nearly met the color printing standards set by this machine. As long as you use a high-quality photo paper (I use Kodak's Ultra Premium Photo Paper) and assuming, of course, the camera you used to take the photo is high resolution, the photos are as beautiful if not more-so than when you used to drop film off at Walgreens.It's an excellent printer for plain old b&w documents too. I've only used the CD tray a handful of times to print on the printable-surface DVD's, with no problems.The only drawback is, you guessed it, it eats ink.
Do not buy this printer. I just bought it last month. I will NEVER BUY ANOTHER EPSON PRINTER. And as for photo prints.it doesnt look like you can put the print paper profile in anywhere. You cannot clean the nozzle. I hate this printer.
I hate this printer. The epson black cartridge is not empty. Many times I dont want to print in color. and now, the printer is telling me that the black cartridge is empty and I cannot print. Anyone who buys this printer is a fool. I want to print text in black only.
If one of the color cartridges is low, you cannot print black.
We run the program 5 or 6 times, then it's back to normal.We've never used the CD printing function.Overall, we love the printer, especially for the price. Seems like they grade grad-student papers by the pound.I use it from time to time for photos, and to my untrained eye, they come out just fine when you use quality paper.Epson probably doesn't appreciate this, but we got a continuous ink system for it that cut our ink costs to a small fraction of what we'd pay for regular cartridges.From time to time we do notice gaps in the printing, but the nozzle-cleaning program that comes with it seems to take care of the problem. I've had this printer for about a year and a half now, and it works great. My wife used it quite a bit as she was working on her master's in English.
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