Epson Stylus Photo 820 Inkjet Printer

Features:

• Up to 2,880 x 720 dpi resolution
• Uses 6-color quick-drying inks for smudge-free results
• Supports border-free printing on letter-size paper
• Prints up to 12 pages per minute in black, or a 4 x 6 inch photo in 48 seconds
• Parallel and USB interfaces; PC and Mac compatible

Accessories:
Final Draft 7 Professional Scriptwriting Win/Mac	ScanSoft PaperPort 11	The Print Shop Pro Publisher 22 Deluxe [DVD]	Microsoft Publisher 2007	Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007

Customer Reviews:

Absolute trash. [Posted on 2007-02-17]
This printer is a piece of garbage. If you don't print constantly from it, you will have to clean the heads every time you use it. 85% of the ink I have burned in this little nightmare has been from running cleanings on it. I am running to the office supply store pretty much every time I have to use it because it's out of ink, even though I'd barely used it since the last time I dropped a bunch of cash on a stupid ink cartidge. Junk. Also: the software for the printer won't let you run a head cleaning if there's no colored ink left, even if you've got enough black ink to print 200 pages. In that scenario, you have to go buy a colored ink cartridge just to make the stupid machine work to print black and white word documents. This thing sucks so much that it's making me irate just thinking about it.

A short-term solution. [Posted on 2007-02-17]
I bought this model as a photo printer.
This printer worked great. That is,until it quit working altogether after 3 months.
I subsequently found co-workers that had the same experience with this particular printer.
This is a cheaply priced printer and I think the title of this review acuurately sums up this printer. Or,you get what you pay for.

Nice quality prints, BUT DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY [Posted on 2007-03-13]
I'm going to be pretty brief on this one - I've owned this printer for good few years, and got plenty of good use out it - wow I'm being so fair to it it's not funny - I have finally reached the point where my patience with it clearly run out.

Why the headache? Simple - one word - inks. This stupid machine defines the word "unreliable" when it comes to inks, or more likely the print heads. It will GUARANTEED screw your print just when you need it most, cause you need to clean your heads, and once you start it literally takes AT LEAST 10 cleaning cycles to actually get anywhere near clean. Many times just the cleaning of it would kill the rest of the ink in the cartridge, so you waist more time and money.

I used to love Epson brand and how far they've come from the dot matrix days, but I think I'm permanently switching to Canon now. That's just sad.

avoid like the plague [Posted on 2007-12-13]
I've not had a decent print from the printer, but at least it uses ink quickly, dries it out quickly, and requires a full color ink cartridge when you only want to print in black and white...nice design epson, guess I should have stuck with canon (like my camera).

good printer [Posted on 2008-06-18]
poor seller packaging and came dirty, but workes, so I'm satisfied, could have been damaged because of lack of bubble wrap in shipping

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