WHERE TO BEGIN!!! Fast, Silent, , reasonable priced, Great results

Drinks ink like, epson inks match best on epson papers

You can't beat this printer for the price. I've used the HP 1100 and was somewhat satisfied with it. I switched to a Epson Stylus Color 860 b/c I could not find the Stylus Photo 870 in stores. Was pretty satisfied w/ the 860, more so than the HP 1100, but the 870 blew me away. An 8x10 print is gorgeous and hardly, if at all, indistiguishable from a lab print. I print 4x6 at 344 dpi w/ wonderful results. If you aske me they look better than lab prints at that size. The only problem w/ this printer, and all epsons, is that Epson Calibrates their inks to match only their line of photo papers. What does this mean...It means that if you print on Kodak Premuim Photo Paper the colors on the monitor WILL NOT match the hard copy you get out of the printer. The skin tones are the worse and most noticeable. The skin becomes this slight magenta color. Looks like everyone in the picture has had a little too much to drink. The moral of the story = if you are going to sell your pictures then print out on Epson papers, otherwise, for my personnel use I go w/ the Kodak papers. This printer is a must have for anyone's digital darkroom

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Haven't needed it.

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Hewlett Packard 1100

Inexpensive
Excellent print quality
Reasonably fast
Quasi-archival ink

Ink is a little pricey
Limited to 8 1/2 inch paper width

Quite possibly the most affordable back-end to a digital darkroom that you could possibly own. 35 mm film scans printed at >300 dpi are simply indistinguishable from photo chemistry.

It will take a little bit of effort to make sure that you have all the color management files associated with the printer, monitor, image editor, etc., and you may need to do some additional custom tweaking of the printer driver to get excellent color matching between monitor and printer, but otherwise the printer is painless to use. The roll paper is affordable, but really irritating to load, print and to get to lie flat after printer. Skip it unless you just love making your own 4x6 glossy prints. On the other hand, the heavyweight matte paper is an absolute joy, and is the paper that give the longest ink life. Even if you don't like matte paper (I never did) this stuff will make a convert of you. Will print an 8x10 (or 7.5 x 10 for a half-inch border all around for matting) in a couple of minutes. Ink is pricey, but doesn't clog like in many inkjet printers: Epson put the print nozzles in the cartridge, not the printer, wehre they dry up over time.

Only prints on 8 1/2 inch wide stock, so if you want your own 11x14 prints, you will need to get the big brother 1270 printer, or its successor the 1280.

Just superb!

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- CHEAP!
- superb quality
- fast printing

- sucks ink
- you need your own USB wire (i had one already)

i wasn't sure if i wanted to get this printer because it was too cheap. usually, printers with this price will give you sucky quality. but the results were outstanding. i print on Premium Glossy Photo paper. prints are comparable to a photo lab job. the printing is very fast (2 minutes for colored 8x10).
unfortunately, this printer eats the ink. you can make around 20-24 8x10's. which is fairly good (around $2.25/pic). i think the ink is cheap compared to other printers. it's only $17 for color and $22 for black, i used to get them for $40 each for my old printer.
if you're looking for superb quality 8x10's, this is the printer you've been looking for. you can't go wrong.

Customer Service

not yet

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This is the printer bargain of the year.Great quality prints from scanned 2700dpi 35mm Kodachrome slides.

Epson OEM ink only with chip on each cartridge.

The $75 price was with a $25 new customer coupon on a two day sale ($99.99 May 1&2) on officemax.com.Works great with Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP Professional Beta 2.Prints from Kodachrome slides as old as 1966 are great.

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Almost photo quality pictures

Colours fade much faster than expected
Pricely ink.

These were supposed to be 25 year lasting prints. Mine started to fade in 1 month of an indor display (no sunlight, bright room, granted, no glass). Still, I think it is well too early!! Digital printing seems to be still in the early infancy. Don't buy it!

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Will see about it

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Did investigate reviews, this one was supposed to be the best (even with the known colour fading problem).

Amazing quality prints
Affordable
Quiet
Fast
Runs off a standard IEC lead, not a transformer
Good colourfastness (with right paper)
Cheap ink

Ink might be cheap, but you get through it quickly
Needs right paper

If you want a printer just for photos, then this is the one to go for! Don't waste it by printing other stuff off on it though - it's expensive! I use an EPL5700 laser printer for that.
Providing you use the right (Epson) paper (Premium Glossy Photo Paper is the best stuff, particularly if you don't want it to fade) and ink (if you're in the UK, buy it from Photoglossy.com, they're by far the cheapest), you'll get amazing results every time.
Also produces great black and white results on Epson Matt Photo Paper.

Customer Service

Never needed

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None, although I have a Stylus Color 670 as well