Epson Stylus Photo R380 Inkjet Printer

List Price: $199.99 Discount Price: $179.95

Features:

• Extra large 3.5" display and card slots to select, crop and print photos -- PC free
• Borderless 4x6 photos in as fast as 13 sec; up to 30 ppm black/color text*
• Direct printing onto CD/DVD, no messy labels
• ClariaTM Hi definition ink for smudge, scratch, water and fade resistant prints
• Automatic photo correction and red-eye removal

Customer Reviews:

Not very durable [Posted on 2008-01-15]
This was my wife's Christmas gift for me a year ago. Yep, you guessed it. Two weeks after the warranty expired the printer stopped functioning properly. I get an "ink cartridge not recognized" error. Unfortunately I bought several genuine, Epson ink cartridges to find out the problem was with the printer. Epson tells me that fixing it might cost more than a new unit.

This is my fourth Epson printer and the other three lasted at least 1000 pages each. Perhaps this one has printed 150. So I'm left with the decision: fix it and salvage the $85 worth of ink laying about or just chuck everything and get something better. Even when it worked the prints weren't that inspiring. Sigh....

Fabulous! [Posted on 2008-02-08]
This printer is perfect! I haven't had an ounce of trouble with it. It quickly prints clean, professional-looking color photos and CDs as well as standard black print documents. Even more, I've printed over 100 pages (many with color) and 20 full-color CDs/DVDs, and the only cartridge I've had to replace so far is the black one. The other colors are holding up well. And these are the low-capacity cartridges that come with the printer. I can't wait to get the high-capacity cartridges--they'll probably last me for months.

Ink Hog at over $80 to by more ink [Posted on 2008-02-13]
At first we loved our Epson Printer but now and for ever I will not buy from them.

After spending a small fortune in ink, I quite.

The ink seems to just vanish in the printer and once one color is gone you can't use the printer even if you only want to print in black and white. Nope you need to plop down $15 or so to replace each color and there's 6.

Nice for Epson bad for customer.

As far as refilling yourself, forget it. They have a built in firewall to keep you from changing the chip in each packet.

I give Epson a big thumbs down and kiss my grits you jerks.

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Sad Gift to Give [Posted on 2008-03-10]
I bought this printer for a friend as a gift, when we took it out of the box to try it out, it did not work. It gave an error "ink not recognized". Called Epson and they sent new ink cartridges, a week and half later all was OK.
It was a sad gift to give because it sat there for two weeks. Once it got working she loves it.

Inks and CD tray Sticking [Posted on 2008-06-07]
First the ink usage is absolutely the worst I have ever seen. It is really not the amount of ink it uses but the minuscule amount of ink that Epson loads in the cartridges. This problem is easily solved by using 3rd party inks and spongless refillable self resetting cartridges or even external ink tanks. This system will cost you approx. $50 but will save you that much in your first refill. Each spongless cartridge holds about 5 times the ink that is in an Epson cartridge and costs Penney's to fill. That said there is now a caveat to this -----The colors will not be as good as the Epson ink.This issue is 85% solved by profiling the new inks and this is time consuming but only needs to be done one time. I did not re-profile because I am not printing to resell and do not really care if the colors are a bit off.

Second issue which removed a star from my vote is that after printing a couple hundred CDs I started getting a paper jam error and had to restart the printer wasting more ink and time. I almost threw out the printer but then noticed slight wear marks on the bottom of the CD tray and it was very smooth. I slightly wet a rag with MEK [ Methyl Ethyl Keytone ] available from Home Depot and wiped the bottom of the tray to create a fresh surface for the rollers to work against and now everything is perfect again. Great little printer and I would buy another.

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