Epson Stylus Photo 780

Some times, in the middle of the night, this printer can make wish you were never born. Or at least wish you had a different printer. It’s nozzles will clog continuously and some times they won’t open no matter how many cleaning cycles you do. On many occasions I’ve had to take the print head apart and clean it by hand. (if you use it once a week you may avoid this problem). Ink cartridges may not be expensive (to some people), but they don’t print many pages so the bottom line is that photos printed on with this printer are EXPENSIVE. I have my doubts on the accuracy of the chip that “monitors” the ink levels. For starters, even if all you use is red ink, the status monitor will tell you that all colors are coming down equally. That of course is a lie. You do have to find a magical combination of color adjustments to get good prints. I have found it, and I don’t warranty it will work for you but it goes as follows: cyan -4, magenta -6, yellow +8, “Epson natural” not selected. I use Konica Minolta Glossy photo paper. If you use other papers color output Will change. In Epson papers this calibration looks a little more yellow. Having said that, I can now tell you that I LOVE the prints I get from my little printer, they are sharp, bright, accurate, consistent. Not cheap though. This is a 2001 model and even today (year 2006) the quality of the prints competes with the ones printed on the newer models.

Beautiful prints. It was economical to buy.

Expensive to use. Complicated to get to work right: I can fix it but my wife would have thrown it away 4 years ago.

The Epson Stylus 780 is one of the most frustrating computer products I have had the misfortune to own. It uses up ink at an amazing rate. I never could get more than about 30 black and white copies and color was far worse. If you used up the black ink, you had to replace the color cartridge. You have to regularly clean the heads six or seven times to get a print. I've had it repaired for the last time; it's going to trash and I'll find a different product. Can't say enough bad things about it.

None

Noisy, slow, uses up ink, inconsistent quality when it does work

I bought this printer when it had just come out and had gotten good reviews. It was actually $250 w/ a $50 Comp USA rebate which I then used to purchase an extended (1 extra year)warranty.This was a waste of 50 bucks because the printer dropped dead 3 weeks after the warranty expired and Comp USA refused to honor it. As far as printer quality: difficulty finetuning color for photos right from the getgo but I thought it was me and not the printer. After about 10 months, it seemed as if I was replacing cartidges unusually frequently-and I was printing more text and graphics than actual photos. But color cartridge needs tp be replaced whenver you replace the black - what a waste! And when ink openings get clogged, forget it - one cleaning cycle is never enough - so you just keep wasting more ink! I would take this printer again if someone gave to me!!

NONE Great at using up ink and making money for Epson!

HP 660 HP 7350

Non existent, unless you want to pay for telephone tech at something like $3.00/minute!!

I've been printing pictures over 20 years. By far, digital printing is the cheapest, convenient, and safiest to produced photos. It may not beat chemical produced photos, but I have digital photos that an average person can't tell the difference between them. For its class, the Espon 780 does an excellent job. People who gave it a bad review, probably didn't know what they are doing. They should read the owner's manual. For an example, to prevent the heads from clogging, the book says, run the printer at least once a week. You can do this by running a nozzel check. You will save ink and keep the heads clean. Because of the constant cleaning, I gave it a 4 stars for the overall rating. It will be nice, if Epson, will put the heads on their cartridges, but that will cost more to purchase. Ever price, HP's cartridges? For quality results, select the correct the Media Type on the Properties ICON, for the type of paper you're using. There are plain, glossy, matte, ink jet, and other type. I found out of all the brands of paper, Epson paper, does produced the best quality. I'm not just saying this to support Epson paper. It works! The 780 produced the correct scanned images from I see from my computer monitor and 35mm slides.

Produced quality photos. Epson's ink cartridges and paper are reasonable price. Brought it in April 2001, produced a lot of photos, and it still runs.

Noisy and got to keep the heads unclogged or clean once a week, but who cares. It's the quality of photos I want. Try working with chemicals and in a darkroom.

Epson's 600 and 700 Photo printer. HP's 7150 Photosmart

I have owned Hp printers and Epsons both are top of the line printers with Hp being a little better at printing text, the Epson seems to be a little better at printing graphic and paper handling. Text on the Epson is very acceptable. The Epson are undoubtly the cheapest to keep up and running. I have a Epson 640, 670, 780, two 785 EPX and had a couple of HPs a 800 & 900 series printers. The 780 was bought because I was so impressed by the 785 EPX printers, what I founded was for the money spent say on a HP 7350, I could get a full featured printer from Epson for a 1/3 the price. I found that I'm very impressed with the output of these printers. Though at times the 640 can do just as good a job as the more expensive printers. It just not as fast as the 780 or 785. I found that I can use 3rd part ink cartriges that cuts the cost down to a 1/3 of the factory units. And these cartriges are some of the cheapest on the market. A set of 3 2pks for $26.95, now they sometimes don't print as goods a factory cartriges, but other times there seems to be no difference. The 640-670 I've had for at least 3 years and they still work great. The 785's are great printers, one is a stand alone, the other is attached to a PC. I got two because one did break down on me. But Epson sent me a replacement in about a week. The other one was bought on Ebay at a very reasonable price. I bought these 780 - 785 to print photos, the 780 is a no frill fast printing printer that can at times compare to the more expsensive and feature loaded 785 (but so can the slow 640), printing photos or text. 1st Epson 785 EXP $118 Walmart 2nd Epson 785 EXP $48 Ebay 3rd Epson 780 xxx $21 Ebay They use the same cartrige 3 2packs $20 -$24 some thing 3 blk 3 color cartriges.

Photo Output, speed 4x6 in less then 54 seconds. 8 x 10 in a 1 minute 45. Some of the faster rated printers output time is the same. Cheap ink and it works well on all glossy paper. I use the IBM preimum glossy.

Noisy, Questionable durability. Cleaning process of this cheaper way of printing.

Epson 785, 640, 670, Apple 360 laser, Hp 800- 900 series.