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Binding: Electronics Brand: Epson EAN: 8715946234656 Feature: STYLUS PHOTO R800 17PPM Label: Epson Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers. Manufacturer: Epson Model: C11C550024CU Number Of Items: 1 Platform: Windows 2000 Publisher: Epson Release Date: 2004-01-20 Studio: Epson
Features STYLUS PHOTO R800 17PPM PHOTO PRINTER IN
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Don't touch it with a barge-pole!!! Comment: Epson Stylus R800 Inkjet Colour Photo Printer Oh yes, the quality's great - until you don't do any printing for a week or come to change cartridges that is. The ink-wastage is unbelievable. I can't even begin to describe the amount of time and money wasted vainly trying to unblock the printheads. Nothing works - not even Isopropanol. My guess would be that a lot of the positive reviews are written fairly shortly after purchase or by very heavy users who print regularly. For normal use, this thing has been an unmitigated disaster. Frankly, my personal opinion is that this printer is so fundamentally flawed that I don't believe Epson should even be selling it - it's about time they realised that there are a lot of people who will never go near one of their products again. If you are still considering purchasing one of these money-pits, check the internet - my experiences are commonplace. Bottom-line an expensive waste of money that's gone in the bin after 1-year. FYI, this is an independent review and I've no connection to any printer manufacturer, distributor etc. Rant over. Customer Rating: Summary: Superb .... but you pay for it. Comment: I have owned this printer for about 2 years now. It produces truly stunning photographic quality pictures, but is VERY expensive as an all round colour printer if you (or in my case the children) use it for simple colour printing (£80 for a set of Epson ink). I experimented with several makes of cheap (£25/set) *compatible* cartridges, and it appeared that if you print photos every few weeks then all is fine, BUT if you don't use ALL the different inks for a month or more they clog up and cause real problems (cleaning the heads uses LOADS of ink and sometimes I was forced to clean the heads 3 times before it printed peoperly). My solution has been to enforce my kids to use a cheap b/w laser as their *standard* printer with the Epson used as a 'special treat' and to buy the Epson original cartridges which seem to be fine if you don't print photographs for a month or more. In summary ... superb photographic quality and not expensive if you print hundreds of photos uisng compatible ink cartridges, but not a cheap all round colour printer if used just for the occassional photograph. Customer Rating: Summary: R800 Good but greedy Comment: I've had this printer for a couple of years now and find it difficult to rate really. 5 stars for print quality and -5 stars for ink consumption. If you don't use the printer often it will require a clean and this seems to drink ink. Example: I put in a new Cyan cartridge 5 months ago. I did 6 x A5 size photos, and have since only used it for mono (black ink only) text quite a lot. Blacks half-full and Cyan now empty. Other colours getting lowish. Why?? How?? (No, I don't want to know). It is truly terrible. On the other hand, quality of photo printing (on a good medium) is truly excellent. Without a magnifying glass you'd be hard pushed to tell they hadn't been done in Boots. Works well with cheap Staples heavy photo gloss paper. Obviously I am trusting Epson that the cartridges were filled properly and that the ink monitor is hopefully accurate. Difficult to prove. Summary: Very expensive to run. Estimate about £60 per year if using genuine Epson cartridges. Brilliant print quality but ink costs are daylight robbery. I could not recommend it as an 'occasional' printer. Next time I buy a printer I'll do a bit of research into ink consumption (rip off) first. Hopefully newer Epson printers have been to AA first to cut down on their drinking!! BUT check first, this is an important income stream for the manufacturers and to make it waste or use excessive ink is in their direct interests. Customer Rating: Summary: Can't agree that its a no-no. Comment: Having agonised over several reviews and online forums concerning the Epson R800, I decided to mate it with my iMac. First prints were too dark. After brightening-up, they were acceptable and colour balance was almost spot-on. Tweaking the image in the advanced set-up in the driver was enough to produce a good print. However, first comparisons with my existing Epson R300 were that the R300 was better - had more punch. The R300 uses dye inks. The R800 uses pigment inks. After various test prints, I have decided that the R800 is offering more subtle shading and colour accuracy but not more detail. The prints from the R800 do however look like quality photochemical prints without a `digital' look. I once showed some R300 prints to a colleague, who remarked that as good as they were they did not "look like the photos he was used to". I agree; they had that `digital look'. The Epson R800 does not. It crosses the barrier between the digital and photo look. It gives purer colours. I made a print of clouds in a blue sky and was amazed at how much more natural the sky was rendered by the R800. The R300 looked artificial in comparison. Many uses have griped at the cost of the inks. I used to use Cibachrome Paper - expensive; and chemicals - expensive, run developing tanks at constant temperature - more expense. The point is; if you want quality then it is unrealistic to think that you can get it on the cheap. Technology costs money and the ink technology is quite specialised. People will spend £800+ on a digital SLR and balk at the £12 or so for an ink cartridge, even if multiplied by seven. There are cheaper printers available but if you are considering the R800 then you presumably appreciate quality. I'm afraid you will have to pay for it and not automatically assume that Epson are trying to put one over on you. My experience with compatible inks was not good; the price was right but the results were wrong - not a good trade-off. Epson Ultrachrome Inks have a predicted 75+ years resistance to fading. No compatible inks can touch this. As to ink usage, I was quite suprised to see that ink levels did not decrease at the rate of galloping horses as some users report. I make 6x4 test prints and ensure they are right before ever printing to A4 (always using 'Best Photo' setting). On my first set of inks I printed about 30 6x4's, 4 5x7's and 10 A4's and the cyan, yellow, magenta and gloss optimiser inks are more than half full. The red, blue and Matt black seem little used at all, and the photo black about 25% used, despite using ink for the initial dosing of the system on set-up. I would say I am satisfied. Customer Rating: Summary: very poor customer service Comment: I cannot recommend the R800. Initially the results were very impressive,as many other reviewers have said.I bought mine Mar-07 and the early photos were as you would expect from a pricey, eight-cartridge machine,but soon I was having to clear the print-head at great cost,frequency and inconvience;merrily printing away when stripes started to appear on the pictures;interrupt printing,waste paper in the proccess.It takes a lot of expensive Epson ink to flush through the heads.By December-07 things were so bad that the R800 was not worth using.Their on-line technical help could offer nothing more than to clean the heads up to six times!(And to use only Epson inks and papers, which I had been doing.)You can see the ink tanks emptying before your very eyes as you do this many cleans! Still no improvement in image quality,and nothing like the quality at the begining.I even sent them an A4 pic which seemed that our four-month-old grandson was hiding behind behind a Venitian blind,the stripes were so bad! I tried to let Epson UKs MD (Mr Butler)know how bad things were,but when I phoned their office I was told it's their policy not to give customers his e-mail address,which provides a clue.I wrote to him anyway, and got a reply from the sales office.The upshot is that unless I can produce my receipt,which I couldn't find,their 'terms and conditions' and 'warranty' applied, even though I had provided the serial number, registered it with them when I bought it and said where and when I had bought it,all to no avail,nothing would be done to rectify the problem. I thought there might be some sympathy forthcoming from them as when the poor quality printing appeared the R800 was about six months' old. As I informed Epson,it would have been nice if they'd used phrases like 'as a gesture of good faith' and 'without prejudice'in these circumstances,but No. Anyway,I've since bought another printer,an HP D7160 which is about a third the R800s price and twice as good. I have no affiliation with either Epson or HP. I'm just a disappointed, disillusioned and disgruntled ex-Epson-printer-owner. Personally, based upon their indifference and poor attitude,and the R800s overall less-than-satisfactory performance and high running costs,I will never again touch any Epson product or service with a barge pole...........Caveat emptor! More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: The world of photography is changing. Now there's a printer that offers photographers a level of quality and flexibility that's more than a match for the lab or darkroom. The Epson Stylus Photo R800 is a desktop photo printing solution that produces supreme archival quality matte or gloss prints, while you retain all the creative control that makes your vision unique.Main Features:Outstanding quality and durability with EpsonUltraChrome Hi-Gloss pigment inkRed and Blue Inks for increased colour gamut simila...