American Express-Savings
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2.0 stars
"Faulty prints, expensive to operate..."
Pros: Cheap price, prints on CDs
Cons: Low build quality, software is archaic, color accuracy is unacceptable
Summary: I bought this printer for the sole purpose of printing on CDs -- works great for that, but smudges very easily and has fairly grainy results when printed on a Memorex or Fuji printable CD. The software it came with to print CDs looks like it was designed for Windows 95 -- and has the user-friendliness of a DOS or unix terminal interface.
If you're into photos, this printer will print them, but I calculated the cost per page in the 40-50-cents range for a 4x6 -- one of the highest... this was with constant printing -- much more if you don't print everything all at once, because of the excessive waste of ink that takes place in these old piezo-electric printheads w/ individual cartridges. It took me a while to figure out how to make them borderless, and after about 10-15 prints, a couple of them started coming out skewed (I think it was because the paper was slightly bent).
Color accuracy is horrible -- if you're blind you might think the pictures come out nice because they are extra bright. When compared to an image on a color-balanced LCD and other 6-ink photo printers, they are extremely washed out and pale (using Epson paper on best quality). Detail is lost in skin tones and subtle pinks/skin-peach/brown colors are very off. Blues/greens seem to be much more accurate.
If you desperately need an individual ink system on an inexpensive printer for cd printing, this is the one for you -- but keep in mind that after you factor ink waste, it will not be cheaper to operate than the tricolor cartridge printers.
Compared to the R340, this is a much better value -- it's the exact same printer minus the screen and buttons for $80 less. However, I'm quite disappointed that Epson uses a very inefficient, old system of printing. If you're looking for inexpensive superior quality photo prints, look into the canons and HPs in this price range... Epson might have been king a few years ago, but the others have caught up and surpassed on quality, longevity of the prints, reliability, and cost of printing.
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Epson Stylus Photo R220 Inkjet Printer:
$310.00
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