As christmas presents go, here is one that I was definitely very pleased with, up until now I have only had a basic printer which I got a good 4-5 years ago, and obviously needed an upgrade! I have always been fond of Epson products, even though my old printer was old as I stated, I had never had any problems with it, which compared to some friends is a big plus, so when I was looking at getting a new (preferably) photo printer, I had decided on an Epson!
Thankfully my partner had been listening to me when I had been dropping hints, and already, even though Ive only had it since christmas I have been extremly pleased with the quality and speed of the printer.
You have to be a bit careful when getting a product like a printer, that you use the right ink cartridges and obviously if you want the best result you have to invest in decent quality printing paper, because if you use bog standard paper, however good the printer is, you will not get the best end result. I wanted quality, so got some proper photo quality printing paper, and the photos are outstanding!
I am not totally sure about the economy of using the product, as prices at photo shops have been geting better, meaning uunless there is a reduced price in the ink and photo paper, it will always be a bit more expensive to have your own photo printer, but in my opinion it opens the doors for a lot of opportunities, you have an open canvas, you dont only have to use the photo that you have taken as "a photo", but you can (using a photoshop style program) get a lot more out of one photo than if you took it to a photo shop!
In my opinion, this Epson Stylus Photo R285 is the best photo printer that I have experienced (My friends have different ones, but I feel this one has just that extra bit of quality for the price)
As long as you dont skimp on getting cartridges and photo quality paper, you cant really go wrong, believe me I am one very happy owner!
Advantages: Perfect CD printing, Photo paper printing and normal paper printer quality! Disadvantages: Large in size and has a few problems in CD printing (as explained in main review)
Selito206 13.05.2008 (13.05.2008)
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