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Tag : c11ca29201, photo one, epson artisan, printer black, 800 wireless

Company : Epson List Price : $299.00 Amazon Price : Too low to display Used Price : $250.00 Average customer review :

Features

• Up to 38 ppm, photos in as fast as 10 sec
• Built-in fax and automatic document feeder
• Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking
• 7.8-inch touch panel, 3.5-inch LCD
• Professional quality CD/DVD printing

Product Description

PRINTER, ARTISAN 800, ALL-IN-ONE,

Customer reviews

The best printer I’ve owned YET!
I just got the Epson Artisan 800 a couple days ago from Amazon. It’s replacing my Epson Stylus Photo R340 and the one I had before that the Epson Stylus C80. I also have a Epson Perfection 4180 Photo scanner. I have limited space, I just did some moving around and no longer have a place for my scanner. My C80 I hadn’t used in years, it was just sitting taking up space, and my R340 wouldn’t print correctly ever since I installed 3rd party ink cartridges. So I got into looking for a replacement and saw the new Epson Artisan printers. I was going to just get the 700, but the 800 just has more features and things like a higher Resolution when scanning and a nicer front display.

Some of the things I really like are, the Paper tray is internal, and it’s a duel tray. One for your normal 8×11 and the other for your smaller Photo Paper. On the Negative of that, I wish I could have both trays using 8×11, for normal paper in one and Photo in the other as I normally use 8×11 Photo paper. I also like the built in CD/DVD printing tray. With a push of a button, it pops out front, you stick your disc on it and hit the button again and it pops back in ready to print. It’s simple. With my R340 I had to use this long tray, drop down the front door for it, and line up the arrows, it would also go and stick out of the back of the printer. Sometimes I had problems getting it working correctly. On this one it’s pretty Idiot prof and completely internal. The front color display is really nice and clear to read and can be placed from flat down to all the way up. You can pretty much do everything with the Printer and never have a computer hooked up to it! From printing on a CD, or removing Red Eye from a picture, loading in pictures of whatever Memory card you have from Compact Flash, SD, MSpro, and USB. There’s just so many things. The Automatic 30 page Document feeder is handy and works well and it’s a nice touch to just close one small flap and seal the whole top up to keep the dust out. It does scan picture BETTER when using the Flat Bed Scanner. Also unlike most Ink-jet printers and even other lower Artisan models like the 500 and 600, this one the Ink Cartridges are very simple to get to by just lifting the top part and the cartridges are on the right front of the printer always. They aren’t on the printer head it’s self moving back and forth with the head, they instead stay in place and a flexible multi channel tube feeds the ink though to the print head. You also have a choice in the size of ink cartridge. A normal one and a Larger size for all but Black which only comes in the larger size. As for as I know they are the same size I guess, but one holds like 60% more ink then the other.

I’m currently using the USB connection, but you can also plug it into your Wired Network with it’s built in Ethernet port, or use Wifi for a wireless setup. You have to have it wired to setup first and then you can go completely wireless from your PC(s). Of course you may want to plug it into your phone line for the built in Faxing Capabilities that it has also.

For all of it’s feature’s, it’s not all that large in size. About 18″ across, 15 1/2″ deep and like 7 1/2″ in height at the highest point. You can also buy the Optional Automatic Duplexer for it, which is only $30 at the Epson store, but currently on Back Order. It plugs onto the back and allows you to print on both sides of a page Automatically without you having to flip the pages yourself. On other printers adding one can cost Hundreds, so $30 is pretty CHEAP! I plan to buy it, but like I said it’s back ordered.

The Black color of the printer looks nice, but it gets dirty easily. I’ve ordered a custom cover to put over the top of it to help. This printer is packed full of features and at a reasonable price. It can print pages quite fast! Printing out normal Text pages, and it’s almost throwing them out, at laser printer type speeds. Navigating around on the screen will take some time to learn, as I’m still learning. There’s so many features, it just takes time to figure it all out. This looks to be the best printer I’ve owned yet by far. How it holds up and prints over time I don’t know. So I’ll do another review in time. I’ll also post a few pictures of mine.

Awesome printer
This printer works great! The photos are incredible. Setup was a breeze and the WiFi is very useful. You won’t regret buying this printer.

Great AIO Printer With Some Gotchas
I purchased this printer on 9/25/08. All in all, a really excellent AIO printer. I’ve been waiting for Epson to put out a printer like this with all the options I wanted in one compact package.

There are some gotchas that you won’t know until you set it up. I was on the phone with Epson support for over an hour before even they realized these features weren’t available.

1. The Front Panel Scan To features only works if the printer is connected via USB. It does not work at all if the printer is connected to your network either hard-wired or wireless.

2. You can only use the memory card reader on the printer if it is connected via USB. Again, this feature does not work if the printer is connected to your network.

3. Per Epson support, you cannot use both the USB and Ethernet connections together. It’s one or the other. I’m going to try it anyway since it took Epson support an hour to tell me that the Scan To and Memory Card Readers only work using a USB connection.

4. On a Mac (I don’t know about Windows yet), you should uninstall any Epson Scan software for any other Epson AIO’s that were connected to your computer before installing the Artisan 800 software. Also, be sure to run the Epson Scanner Utility and select the appropriate connection type. It defaults to LOCAL even if you set it up as a Network printer. That was a pain in the butt since nowhere in the documentation does it tell you about this.

5. For a $300.00 printer, it should have included the Duplexer, which is a $29.00 option direct from Epson. Epson is showing no stock for the Duplexer as of 9/26/08.

Also, don’t be fooled into buying extra print cartridges when you buy the printer because the sales person tells you that the cartridges are only half full . Epson actually included full print cartridges with this printer.

If you can live without the Scan To PC, PDF and Email features, as well as the Memory Card Reader working using a networked connection, than I highly recommend this printer. With these shortcomings, it is an excellent printer.

Supercool.
I have muddled my way through crappy printers for many years. Usually, they’ve been part of a promotion of some sort with the purchase of a new computer. They’ve served their purpose - printing some photos and documents - but never with great skill or results.

I hooked the Epson Artisan 800 up last night and from the second I turned it on, I was wowed. My son said “Whoa, that’s cool.” For someone used to having a lit up color display screen I’m sure this would be no big deal but for us, it got quite a reaction. The screen is large and actually displays the photos you’re about to print.

So in order to play with it ASAP we decided to just plug in the SD card from my camera and start printing using the photo paper samples that came in the box. (It will also print on printable CDs and DVDs and there is a sample CD included, too.) So we put in the SD card, started navigating using the touch screen and within one minute had selected the photo, cropped it, loaded the photo paper, and printed it all without opening the manual. It’s pretty darned intuitive. Now, I did load the photo paper upside down the first time so the ink/toner was just sitting atop the paper and never dried. I tried again with the paper correctly placed, and the photo was INCREDIBLE. We were wowed.

Next, we tried the scanner. We opened up a magazine, set it on the scanner bed, and again, using the VERY easy-to-use touch screen display, had the page scanned within a minute. It showed the scan right on the display screen. We chose to save the scan to the SD card already in the printer so then we printed the scan to plain paper and it also turned out nicely. The scan wasn’t as good as I was hoping but after playing around a little bit more with the scan settings available on the screen, we ended up with a much better print out from the scan after a few more minutes.

Once past the easy stuff, I opened the booklet that showed how to network the printed. I was hoping I could just turn it on, press some buttons, and it would find my wifi and that would be it. It was a little more complicated unfortunately. But not too complicated. It took about 20 minutes to get it up and running wirelessly and the connection through the wifi seemed pretty responsive and quick. There was a slight delay in printing compared to when I hardwired it to the computer but that does make sense and it wasn’t so bad that it bugged me or disappointed me in any way.

So end result is I have a very cool printer set up in a room untethered to any of my computers that anyone can print to from any room, any computer. Maybe my expectations are too low but I found it quite wonderful to be sitting in the living room, printing a spreadsheet, walking to the room with the printer, and the document already sitting there. No fuss.

I’ve not faxed and probably won’t but I can imagine how this will come in handy when say, a buddy from school calls and has forgotten his homework. We can fax it straight to their email address!

Haven’t tried the copy function yet either. I’ll update when I do.

My new favorite printer
This new Epson printer offers a tremendous array of features for the home office. First off, it’s wireless. Getting it to log into my home wireless network took about 10 minutes and was pretty easy. Now, it’s just plugged into a power outlet and that’s it. So cool!

The paper tray holds photo paper and letter (or legal) size - another very cool feature.

Automatic document feeder for scanning, faxing, copying - all of which can be done wirelessly, of course.

You can also do quite a few things without using a computer at all, although I have to say, I don’t find myself needing to print pictures without loading them into my computer first. If this is something you need to do, this printer makes it pretty easy.

Maybe I’m cynical, but it seems like the feature of being able to print your own graph paper is designed to encourage people to use large quantities of ink. I think I’ll stick with buying preprinted graph paper and note pads, thanks.

All in all, I can easily recommend this device. I’m still getting into all the features, but so far it’s a winner.