Customer Reviews:
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 Sad August 24, 2010
Martin J. Yadon (Transplanted to Cleveland, OH)
A little over a year and it's dead...But only after I spent more than it's worth on ink. 75.00 for ink and 2 hours of technical support and It needs to be replaced. Nothing more to be said. This is the first and only epson I will ever buy.
 Works great at first.... August 16, 2010
jdadub (USA)
We purchased this printer to print mostly simple documents at home. I had no problems setting the printer up on our home wifi network. However, when it was time to change the ink everything went down hill. The first time we changed the ink it would print only half of the document and if it printed the entire document it was faint crooked. After cleaning the print nozzles and doing an alignment a 1000 times with no success I gave up and unplugged it for a week. When I plugged it back up it started working fine.
We installed new ink last week and now all we get is blank documents. We have went through all the cleaning and alignment with no luck.
The ink is expensive and you use it up quickly even if you print in mostly black and white.
One last thing if you run out of 1 color and every other is still full, the printer will not let you print.
 Nice Wireless Printer - Good ROI August 9, 2010
D. Young (Wilmington, NC USA)
Okay...let's get this out of the way. Printers today are, well...consumable. Yep. You read that right. They're basically consumable, disposable loss-leaders designed for 1 sole purpose, and it isn't printing. It's to sell overpriced, under-performing ink to the masses.
As a former HP user, I was tired of purchasing over-priced ink for printers who's use-life was less than 2 years. Coupled with the fact that it seems that every time a new operating system comes out, HP "conveniently" drops support for anything older than 1 year...forcing you to purchase another printer. So, deciding I'd had enough of HP, I went shopping around, and ultimately settled on this printer.
The PRO's:
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It's a network printer offering Wireless-G compatibility right out of the box! That's great for me, given that I have 5 wired / wireless networked machines at home and I was tired of having to always leave 1 machine on in order to print items.
Setup was a breeze...my 10 year old can do it. Just run the setup utility and follow the directions. Easy-peasy.
Document printing is fast and of better-than-average quality, especially when printing on good stock. Also prints well on glossy brochure stock, though I wouldn't call this a photo printer by any stretch...but then, that's not really what it's for.
Uses 4 separate ink cartridges, so you don't have to shell out $40 when 1 color runs out, which is nice.
Color document printing is great, and speedy.
The CON's:
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Not the most efficient use of ink. The cartridges are rather small by capacity, and if you want the extended capacity cartridges, forget about buying locally. The larger capacity cartridges are only available online from Epson.
Not for printing color photographs. You're better off uploading your prints to a local Walgreens or AdoramaPix. It's okay for the occasional snapshot print, or school project perhaps...but for printing photos for your albums...forget it. An online printing service is just going to give you better quality prints for less money. Period.
Final Thoughts:
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Hey, it's a network printer that offers both Cat-5 and Wireless connections, has easy setup, and does very well printing black / white + color documents. If that's all you're looking for, then this is the printer for you. I've been using it for over a year, and it's been a solid performer. It's not for real heavy use, but for the home office, it should more than suffice.
If you want something that can print photographic-quality prints...I suggest you look elsewhere. You're in the wrong price-point for that kind of color-printing accuracy.
In less than 6 months I now have a new paperweight July 13, 2010
Katherine N. Rocha (California, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this printer because the reviews at the time were good, it was small, print quality was decent, and it was relatively cheep. Here's the problem. There is a manufacturing flaw. The chips inside the printer will often think that your ink cartriges are empty when they are not, think they are full when they are empty, and will not register when you have place a new cartrige in the slot. I have spent over $200 in buying cartriges that I thought were bad only to find that the problem was the printer itself.
Buyer Beware. Look into this problem before you consider buying. The cheep price is not worth what you will waste in ink.
worst printer or any device I ever bought June 11, 2010
TJ LA (Inglewood)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this printer in a hurry, my old printer was so old and all my other recent purchases reflected the fast pace of improvement across the board of features in scanners, cameras, etc.
The worst thing about this piece of crap is it takes awhile to see all the problems, so it's too late to take it back. After a couple months:
Constant ink clogs
Constant paper jams
Even when it doesn't jam the image is often tilted, looks unprofessional
Lines appear in photos
Constant head cleanings use up tons of expensive ink
A cartridge stops working but printer doesn't know it - no way to change it unlike every other printer I've owned until you deplete another cartridge.
First printer i ever owned that won't print transparencies??!! I guess making their ink proprietary was a higher priority than printing on film - a-holes!
No more Epson for me. I bet the CEO cut quality and showed a profit on paper and got a big bonus. Then sales drop and he gets fired with a multi-million dollar golden parachute. Go team America!
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