Customer Reviews
Excellent professional printer 
2006-07-27
We've been using our printer for 2 yrs now w/o any issues. Its survived 3 house moves and extended 105F heat. No clogging, no breakdowns. The paper roll attachment is particularly clever and saves lots of money on paper. But this is a professional printer for serious photographers. Its not for printing the occasional photo emailed from the grandkids. Its big and a little intimidating. As with any serious photographic work, you'll benefit from using Photoshop with a professional color calibration utility. We use Monaco and it works very well. Always an exact color match.
Very Frustrating 
2006-07-15
Save yourself the stress and don't buy this printer. When it prints it prints beautifully. But it rarely prints correctly. If you don't use it for a day the nozzles clog and you have to clean them (of course you don't know that until you've wasted a print sometimes) That uses up valuable ink. Even in the middle of of printing a queue of photos the heads can clog - meaning that you can't send it more than one photo at a time. I'm retiring mine and just keeping it around for the few times I need large format. Wish I hadn't wasted money on it.
Great output, but a real hassle and poor durability 
2006-06-24
I bought this printer for professional/scientific images. When it prints, it produces the best images I have ever seen. Further, the color IS very stable, even in bright light.
However, the printer is a real hassle to operate, especially if you use it infrequently and have to suffer its quirks before you remember how to do things. Its nozzles clog easily, making it necessary to do expensive cleaning cycles. It's VERY slow in the best quality mode, so doing prints by trial and error is a very laborious process indeed. Finally, the software seems to be full of bugs, especially with respect to cancelling a print job in progress (e.g. when one inevitably gets the printing settings wrong).....cancelling a job often "hangs" the printer, and often requires a system reboot to fix effectively.
Finally, my printer has developed numerous hardware issues, such as intermittent failures to recognize a replaced cartridge or a refusal to print when anything other than "Plain Paper" is selected as the output media. Admittedly my machine is over three years old, but it hasn't been used that much. More importantly, in my experience problems such as these cannot be readily solved by Epson or their authorized repair centers. Thus I'll probably have to junk my printer as "irreparable".
Good printer but not for casual user 
2005-12-30
The color and quality are fine. Problem is if you do not use the printer often, you will need to keep cleaning the heads and wasting ink. Also while the roll paper is nice feature the paper curl seems almost impossible to remove. Unless you are printing large prints and use often I would opt for something else.
The HP 475 has worked great for our occassional printing and I like the fact that we can take it with us and print direct from cards on battery power.
Great Prints, Bad Feeder 2005-12-07
Yes, my Stylus Photo 2200 Inkjet Printer produces great prints, but what I have to to do to get there makes me crazy. Like my older Epson 1280 and my cheapo Epson R300 (a freebie) the weak links in these printers is the feeder mechanism. I don't know why Epson can't get this right. They spend alot of time and money getting the inks right which I appreciate, but the mechanics are nerve racking. I don't use Epson paper, which I consider mediocre at best, only 100% cotton/rag paper from various art paper manufacturers. Epson claims that this is perfectly okay, but I have a sneaking suspicion they only want me to use their paper.
When I do a large format run, I set aside an hour or two and some junk paper just so I can get it feeding properly, hand fed, one at a time. I got tired of wasting expensive paper with much cursing in between. Sometimes I have to threaten to drag it to the local Salvation Army drop off before it starts working properly. I confess I dream of what it would it be like to push a button and have it just print without any problem. In the end I love the result, but why so much pain to get there? Only the Epson engineers know why, or do they?
arrived broken, still works. 2008-06-10
Epson photo 2200. This is the best printer ever for the task I only use it to print black. Best part of it I can install clone ink cartridges the machine accepts them allways. unlike my HP all in one worst printer ever. this Epson beats the HP hands down.
Frustrations galore! 2008-01-08
I'm in college and have no choice but to use this printer to print out important projects. I work with Illustrator and InDesign, and though I resize the file image to a size far smaller than the huge matte paper that I must print with, the printer either consistently crops everything or makes the image smaller than I specified. This cost me many sheets of expensive matte paper, and probably half of the school's ink supply, just trying to GET IT RIGHT.
The one time that I succeeded in configuring everything correctly, which took far more time, sweat and tears than a simple printer should deserve, the print quality was horrible. There were rows of thin white lines going across the image. I hope after I leave school that I will never see this printer again.
Three years and going with one happy owner 2006-12-19
It's been three years since I bought this printer; hundreds of photographs later with dozens of color cartridges spent I can honestly claim that this is one fantastic printer. I use it in La Paz, Bolivia (13,000 feet high) and I never had a problem with the printer or with the quality of the prints. The color profiles that come with most professional paper make it a snap to print form Photoshop. The only possible down-side to this printer is that the cartridges are very expensive and don't last much, but for the quality of the prints produced... this is one well though out product that will last a long, long time.
No trouble and no clogs 2006-10-12
I have owned this printer for two years and both used it hard at times and left it unused for several weeks at a time. I have had no trouble whatsoever with it. In fact I believe it to be the best Epson I have ever owned. You have to wonder if the folks that have had trouble with it are using generic ink, something we have not done.
Constant clog 2006-08-08
You will be constanly cleaning print heads and using up all your ink not printing. The cost of ink combined with the cost to keep the printer running smoothly is a fortune. Online they will tell you sometimes waiting a day after cleaning will help but frankly when I go to print, I need to print. Basically you need to constantly print on this to keep from wasting your ink on cleanings but instead you'll be wasting your ink at the same rate on frivulous printings.
