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Epson 820
Authored by: Anonymous on Dec 17, '01 03:12:10PM

I would suggest going with the 820 for bang-for-buck. It has the 5-color ink cartridges for more accurate color, it's got 2880*720 dpi output on glossy and 1440*720 output on plain paper, beautiful prints. It's also available for $150 with a $50 rebate, for a total price of $100 for this great new printer. It's also reasonably fast and quieter than previous models. Ink carts for this are available at www.ink4art.com for $15 for both color and black carts. The drivers are kinda buggy, requiring you to stop and retry all print jobs at least once when printing, but this is not too bad, and it's definitely a nice printer, and by far the best for the money. Outpost.com has it for $150.



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Epson 820
Authored by: SeanAhern on Dec 17, '01 08:31:49PM

I agree. Nice printer. I have been very happy with its functionality, colors, and speed.

What I'm not so happy about is Epson's support for it under OS X. I had to dig for several hours on Epson's web site to find the drivers for it (Classic and OS X). Their Mac OS X page doesn't even mention the 820, even though the printer has been out for a couple months now.

The driver in Classic works flawlessly - doing color correction for prints even better than Photoshop does. It supports printing all the way to the edges of the paper, a wonderful feature when making prints.

But the driver in OS X is annoying. Yes, it works, but I have to do what most of you have been doing - restarting the job in the printer queue after the first one fails. And there is no support for all of the things that the Classic driver does: custom paper sizes, zero-margin printouts.

I'll mention again the annoyance of Epson's web site, which seems to have no information about the 820 and OS X together anywhere.



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