Customer Reviews
Great little printer! 
2006-12-17
I see a lot of people complaining about clogging up ink jets...I wonder if they know that you should actually turn an ink jet printer off if you aren't going to use it for a few days. It seats the cartridge properly. I have had no trouble with that.
I've had my printer for 2 years and it works just fine, even on photos. It's really been a bargain for the price! I print my photos at 360 dpi, works just fine.
Ditto - I too HATE this infernal printer !!! 
2006-09-13
this printer has ruined any joy or anticipation that might come from digital photography. the constant clogging and multiple cleaning passes required whenever i decide to print has made printing torture. so why dont i smash this infernal japanese torture machine with a baseball bat? dont think i havent fantasized long and hard about it, 'just wait till the cartridge is empty' i tell myself, which takes all of 10 pages, but nooo i buy another cartridge! why? why? why do i go on with this living hell? yes, i need a new printer, but will i ever buy another epson anything? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Constant Clogging 2006-09-09
This printer would have to be the worst printer I have ever owned. Though I have never had good luck with any inkjet printer in the past, this particular printer takes the award for worst ever. The nozzles CONSTANTLY clog and you are left with gaps and smears throughout your printed pages. The only way I can get it to make a decent print is to run the head cleaning utility a minimum of 4 times before I print.
Worst printer I have ever had! 2006-07-27
I have never had a printer more annoying and troublesome than this printer. I love the color that Epson printers can achieve but this printer has given me so much headache.
The Epson Stylus Photo 820 Inkjet Printer is incredibly noisy and cannot sit on the desk idle. It will move and adjust itself for no apparent reason, constantly. Its movement is so jerky it shakes my desk. When printing, it's slow and the printer also tends to drag in more than one sheet of paper. The printer is also extremely sensitive and just about anything can make the ink smudge on the next print out.
Most Epson ink will dry out within three months or less and it's Epson's way to get more money out of you. Still though... Epson color is the best I know of if you're printing from home and to get that wonderful color that matches up to the color on your screen is no easy feat. If you really must get an Epson printer go for something a little more expensive or a newer model.
The incredible ink-slurping printer 2006-05-29
Like almost everyone else on this site, I loathe this printer, primarily for its insatiable appetite for ink. Really inexcusable, how poorly this device performs.
good printer 
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
avoid like the plague 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).
Nice quality prints, BUT DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY 
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.
A short-term solution. 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.
Absolute trash. 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.
