Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Epson 1280 Printer Review
| Epson 1280 - Large Format Inkjet Printer - Big Picture without Borders MSRP(Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price) for Epson Stylus Photo 1280: $399.00 |
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With Epson 1280 inkjet printer you get great 8" x 10" prints (in less than 2 minutes) and also 11" x 14" prints (in less than 4 minutes). You can get fast 13" x 44" panoramas too. Epson 1280 inkjet printer is ideal for people who looks for a large format printer. Also, creating memorable results on everything from gallery exhibition prints to portfolio prints, duplicates, soft proofs, and enlargements is possible with Epson Stylus Photo 1280.
AcuPhoto Halftoning™ technology and quick-drying six-color ink palette create excellent, large photo prints. By the help of this technology (and the other technologies of Epson 1280), you can get photos with great shadow detail, dazzling highlights and true skintones. Epson 1280 also provides an automatic low-ink detection sensor and this sensor alerts you when your ink cartridges run low.
Detailed Specs:
- Printer Type - Personal Inkjet Printer
- Printing Technology - Advanced Micro Piezo®, optimized for photo printing
- Print Speed - Up to 9 PPM² (black text) - 54 seconds² (4" x 6" Photo), - 1 minute 50 seconds² (8" x 10" Photo)
- Maximum Resolution - Up to 5760 x 720 optimized dpi
- Black/ Color Resolution - 2880 dpi x 720 dpi
- Number of Nozzles - 48 nozzles (monochrome head), 48 nozzles x 5 (CcMmY)(color head)
- OS Compatibility - Windows USB - Windows 98, 2000, Me and XP, Windows Parallel - Windows 95, 98, NT4.0, 2000, Me and XP, Macintosh USB - Macintosh OS 8.5.1 - 9.X, OS X 10.1 and later
- Connectivity - USB and Parallel
- Compatibility - PC
- Paper Size - 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", Letter, A4, legal, 11" x 14", 11" x 17" (B), A3 (11.7" x 16.5"), 13" x 19" (Super B), statement, executive, user definable sizes and panoramic up tp 13" x 44"
- Borderless Photo Size - 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10", letter, 11" x 14" and 13" x 19"
- Paper Compatibility - Epson photo papers, roll papers, plain, bond and air mail papers. EPSON Premium Bright White, Glossy Photo Paper, Premium Glossy Photo Paper, Premium Semigloss Photo Paper, Premium Luster Photo Paper, ColorLife Photo Paper, Matte Paper Heavyweight, Double-sided Matte, Inkjet Transparencies, Self-adhesive Sheets, Photo Quality Ink Jet Paper, Greeting Cards, High Quality Banner paper; labels; envelopes, Iron-on Transfers and Photo Stickers; and EPSON 4", 8.3" and 13" roll paper
- Paper Handling - 100 Sheets(plain paper)/10 envelopes/1 transparency (input paper tray), 50 pages (output tray)
- Software Compatibility - EPSON Software™ Film Factory™, PRINT Image Matching Plug-In for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
- 6 Colors-Ink Palette (CcMmYK)
- One black ink cartridge and one color ink cartridge (CcMmY)
MSRP for Epson Stylus Photo 1280: $399.00
Epson 1280 uses the below ink cartridges:
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OEM #: T007201
Color: Black
Yield: 370 pages
MSRP:
Our Price: $7.95
Your Savings: 
3 or more: $6.95 ea.
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OEM #: T009201
Color: Color
Yield: 330 pages
MSRP:
Our Price: $11.95
Your Savings: 3 or more: $10.65 ea.
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OEM #: T007201/T009201
Color: Set
MSRP:
Our Price: $42.65
Your Savings:
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OEM #: T007201
Color: Black
Yield: 370 pages
MSRP:
Our Price: $22.95
Your Savings:
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OEM #: T009201
Color: Color
Yield: 330 pages
Our Price: $29.95
Reviews Summary:
The summary is based on testimonials of the Epson 1280 users and editors in various sources such as PC Magazine, Cnet, PCWorld etc.
Epson 1280 is a fast inkjet printer and provides super photo output quality. It is surprisingly inexpensive. Epson Stylus Photo 1280 is easy to operate. There are also strong colors in Epson 1280. You can see no streaks, no paper jams in it.
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Related links for Epson 1280:
Epson 1280 Ink Cartridges at PrintCountry.com
Buy this printer at Amazon.com
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Compatible Inkjet Cartridges
Epson Stylus Photo 1280 Driver
