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4.0 stars
"Good prints for both text and photos at the right settings"
Pros: Good text and photo printing
Cons: Noisy, ink dries when not used, gear marks on paper, wastes lots of ink
Summary: No need to repeat how it prints - it is pretty good, if you take the time to choose the right setting. To get the best photos, you need to select "custom" resolution and select the max available (2,400 or so). Then you get virtually dot-free prints, unlike at the default setting for 'premium glossy photo paper' (720 dpi I believe) where you can still see dots from up close. Of course, print speeds are very slow at that high resolution, so start a print and go do something (seems to takes more than 10 minutes for an A4 page)
As for the ink drying when not used frequently - this is an Epson 'trademark' - the solution is to turn the prinrer on immediately before printing, then turn it back off after that. Try telling this to your 4-th grader or younger child...Annoying, plus it still wastes ink in the process. HP is much better at that, even the older models. And they are alot more quiet. But this Epson gets the job done and once you bought it, it does not make $$$ sense to ditch it for another printer. I would not buy it, or another Epson printer, again if I had that option - precisely because of the drying ink heads and to a lesser extend because of the noise and the almost invisible gear marks it leaves on some papers. Hopefully, newer models remedy this, but check twice before you buy!
