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Product Description: Stylus Photo 820 Ink Jet Printer produces frame-ready photos at a picture perfect price. The best buy in 6-color image quality, the Epson Stylus Photo 820 offers fast photos and text, plus BorderFree printing, which creates edge-to-edge photos, ready to frame or place in albums, quickly and easily, without awkward perforations at up to 2880 x 720 dpi resolution, and superior Photo Inks for true-to-life "dotless" photos.Amazon.com Product Description: Epson combines brilliant color with 2,880 x 720 dpi resolution in the Stylus Photo S820. Epson's PRINT Image Matching technology oversees six fast-drying color photo inks that are formed into superfine 4-picoliter droplets, resulting in bright, accurate, true-to-life color. The S820's prints are frequently indistinguishable from standard photographs, making this an ideal printer for professional applications as well as the home office. Print speed is a respectable 12 ppm for black-and-white prints, while a 4-by-6-inch photo takes roughly 48 seconds. The S820 supports a wide variety of media types, including standard letter-size paper; greeting cards; banners up to 44 inches; and 4-by-6-inch, 5-by-7-inch, and 8-by-10-inch borderless papers. The input tray holds 100 sheets or 10 envelopes, and the output tray holds 30 sheets. The software bundle includes Epson Software Film Factory with Print Image Matching support, Arcsoft PhotoImpression 3.0, and QBeo PhotoGenetics 2.0 TE. Installation and connectivity are easy, with USB and parallel ports provided. Compatible with both Windows and Macintosh, the Photo S820 comes with a one-year warranty and is backed by the Epson Exchange program.
Epson 820S Photo Inkjet Printer (Silver) 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
Customer Reviews:
- I will never again buy an Epson printer: This is the 2nd Epson Stylus I have owned. The first worked fine for about 6 months, then I had constant problems with clogged heads requiring numerous cleaning cycles and wasting the very expensive ink. I thought that if I bought a newer, better (more expensive) model that I would not have the same problems. Boy was I wrong! It's the exact same story with the new printer. I know it's a relatively inexpensive printer but it should last longer than 6 months. Never again! I am finished with Epson.
- SAVE YOUR MONEY: Buy something else, if there were a zero star option I would have given it.
Now on the plus side when it works the prints are excellent.
But the trouble is with the "when it works" !
Every time I try and print anything seems the heads are always clogged, it then takes numerous cleaning cycles and LOADS of VERY expensive ink to clean.
Oh and then your cleaning the black head (using color ink as well) after the fifth cycle, its almost cleared the clog.... you get the "color ink low - change color ink cartridge" guess what you just used up all your color ink cleaning the black head
Sometimes cloggs midway through printing a 10 x 8 print..... very anoying.
I just bought a Canon ip 4000 so this ones in the trash! - What do you expect?: I have had this printer for almost 2 years. I use the cheapest ink I can find and YES I use it with XP.
I think it is JUST FINE. If you want upscale prints buy an upscale printer. I have another Epson printer that I tried to use tech support and EPSON TECH SUPPORT is equivilant to DRUNK MONKEYS....at best. I find OEM Epson ink is horrible. CLogs worse than anything and is stupidly expensive. BUY GENERIC.
Try Voltexx.com for cheap ink.
I have let this printer sit for weeks (6-8) and used it. YES I have to run headcleaning several times. But I buy CHEAP INK !!!!
NUFF SAID. - Cinderella printer: This printer worked great... for about a year, and then turned back into a pumpkin. Printouts started getting ugly stripes and splotches of random ink. Repeated printhead cleanings didn't help much either. If you're looking for a good printer that lasts, stay away Epson and check out Canon or HP.
- Paper feeder will drive you nuts!: I didn't buy this on Amazon but wish I had come to see the negative reviews first!
Print quality is fair, but does seem to go through the printer cartridges awfully fast.
But the most annoying thing is how it loads paper - or doesn't! It grabs several sheets simultaneously, so that you have to stand there and feed it one sheet at a time.
If you don't, it will take so many it clogs the machine, chews up the paper, leaves a black smear on everything and sounds like it's going to die.
If you put in only a few sheets to prevent this problem, it will still grab them all and then start making a loud "protesting" noise when it's out.
I always talk back to it and tell it that it's the printer's own damn fault for being a paper hog. See - that's how annying it is - you end up cursing it out every time you print more than one page!!
So I would not recommend it!
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