Friday, December 10, 2004
Epson R800 Printer Review
Print on Printable CDs and DVDs with Epson R800 Inkjet Printer |  |
Epson R800 provides high print quality. Epson Stylus Photo R800 also offers a large color gamut and true photo quality with its eight ink cartridges which include red, blue and two variations of black. You can get a separate software for Windows and Mac OS with Epson R800 too.
Epson R800 Printer Driver offers Basic and Advanced modes which provide identical page layout and maintenance tasks but they differ in the complexity of their selectable color and quality settings. The driver is comprehensive and includes useful information such as real-time ink levels.
Detailed Specs:
- Print speed: Up to 17 ppm; 5x7" photo in 45 seconds
- Print resolution: Up to 5760 x 1440 optimized dpi
- Print technology: Advanced Micro Piezo pigment inkjet, optimized for photo printing
- Printer Type: Inkjet Printer
- Ink palette: 6-color (Cyan, Magenta,Yellow, Photo Black or Matte Black, Red and Blue ink cartridges)
- Nozzle configuration: 180 nozzles per ink cartridge
- Input capacity: 100 Sheets(plain paper)/ 20 sheets (photo paper)/ 10 envelopes/ 1 transparency/ 1 printable CD/DVD
- Paper types: Epson photo papers, 4" and 8.3" roll papers (roll paper holder included), plain, bond and air mail papers. Supports Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, Premium Semigloss Photo Paper, Premium Luster Photo Paper, Enhanced Matte Paper, Matte Paper Heavyweight, Double-sided Matte Paper Heavyweight, Inkjet Transparencies, Photo Quality Inkjet Paper, Premium Bright White Paper, inkjet printable CDs/DVDs.
- Paper sizes: Letter, legal, A4, statement, executive, user definable (4" to 44" in length), 4" x 6", 4" roll, 5" x 7", 8" x 10", 8.3" roll, panoramic (8.3" x 23.4")
- Interface: USB 2.0 Hi-Speed and IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
- Operating systems: Windows 98SE/2000/Me/XP, Mac 8.6-9.2, OSX 10.1.3 or later
- Software: Epson Software Film Factory v3.0, Epson Print CD Software, and PRINT Image Matching Plug-In for Adobe Photoshop 6.0, 7.0, and Elements (all titles are PC and Macintosh compatible, P.I.M.- and Exif Print-enabled)
- Width: 19.5", height: 12.8", depth: 25" including paper trays
- Weight: 17.6 pounds
MSRP for Epson R800: $399.00
Epson R800 uses the below ink cartridges:
) OEM #: T054020 Color: Colorless Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054120 Color: Photo Black Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054220 Color: Cyan Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054320 Color: Magenta Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054420 Color: Yellow Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054720 Color: Red Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054820 Color: Matte Black Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054920 Color: Blue Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054020/41/42/43/44/47/48/49 Color: Set |
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) OEM #: T054020 Color: Colorless Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054120 Color: Photo Black Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054220 Color: Cyan Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054320 Color: Magenta Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054420 Color: Yellow Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054720 Color: Red Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054820 Color: Matte Black Capacity: 13 ml Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T054920 Color: Blue Yield: 400 pages |
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Reviews Summary:
The summary is based on testimonials of the Epson R800 users and editors in various sources such as PC Magazine, Cnet, PCWorld etc.
The different black inks of Epson R800 optimise prints for matte and glossy paper and produces excellent results on both types of paper. It produces clean texts even at small sizes. Epson Stylus Photo R800 produces excellent images with realistic textures, sharp detail and strong, rich colors in the more-common RGB format.
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Related links for Epson R800:
Epson R800 ink cartridges at PrintCountry.com
Buy this printer at Amazon.com
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