Important Printer Buying Tip: ALWAYS check for the ink cartridge prices before you purchase a
printer. Why? Sometimes cheaper printers end up costing more because its
ink cartridges may be way expensive. You should calculate the "cost of
ownership" per month. The math is simple: (number of prints per month)
times (cost of the cartridge) divided by (the yield of the cartridge).
Yield is the number of pages that can be printed with one particular
cartridge.
For example, assume that average home user prints 150 black pages per
month using a black cartridge that yields 200 pages and costs $28. The
monthly "cost of ownership" is (150 pages) x ($28) = $21
200 pages
Also look at the printer ink alternatives; besides the
original manufacturer's cartridges (OEMs), you may have the selection of
remanufactured cartridges, compatible ink cartridges, and ink refill kits.
Below is the list of Epson R800 compatible printer ink
cartridges:
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 Ink Jet Paper, Premium Bright White Paper,
ink jet printable CDs/DVDs.
In the box: Epson Stylus Photo R800 ink jet
printer, 1 cyan ink cartridge (T054220), 1 magenta ink cartridge
(T054320), 1 yellow ink cartridge (T054420), 1 photo black ink
cartridges (T054120), 1 matte black ink cartridge (T054820), 1 red ink
cartridge (T054720), 1 blue ink cartridge (T054920), 1 gloss optimizer
cartridge (T054020), CD print tray and Epson Print CD software, roll
paper holder accessory, printer documentation, Premium ICC profiles,
CD-ROM containing printer drivers and software (Windows and Macintosh)
ProductDescription for Epson R800
(From the Manufacturer, Epson)
With the R800 inkjet photo printer from Epson, you can print
professional quality photos from the comfort of your own home. With its
fine 1.5-picoliter droplet size, the R800 delivers resolutions up to
5,700 x 1440 dpi for exceptionally detailed and accurate prints. You can
also print directly onto inkjet-printable CDs and DVDs, adding a
professional look and feel to your media.
Print speeds are as fast as 17 ppm, while a 5-by-7-inch photo can take
as little as 45 seconds. The R800 can print borderless photos in a
number of popular sizes, and accepts a wide variety of plain and photo
papers, as well as transparencies and envelopes. The input tray holds up
to 100 sheets of regular paper, up to 20 sheets of photo paper, up to 10
envelopes, one transparency, or one printable CD/DVD.
Designed to last, Epson's UltraChrome Hi-Gloss pigment inks deliver
photos with an expected life of up to 80 years. The software bundle
includes Epson Software Film Factory as well as the PRINT Image Matching
II Photoshop plug-in, designed to optimize prints from a wide variety of
popular digital cameras.
The R800 connects to your computer via either USB or FireWire and has a
25,000-page monthly duty cycle. Compatible with both PC and Mac
operating platforms, the R800 comes backed with a one-year parts and
labor warranty.
MSRP for Epson R800: $399.00 Street Price: $30.00 - $402.00
PC WORLD.com Editors' review:
The Stylus Photo R800 adds red and blue inks to the standard set of
cyan, magenta, and yellow inks; but it omits light photo cyan and light
photo magenta. Other cartridges supply photo black, matte black (for
text), and a gloss overcoat. The matte black helped the R800 produce
text that looked bold yet clean even at small sizes. While gray-scale
photos exhibited punch that other printers' output lacked, they also
displayed precise detail and realistic shading.
Like other Epson inkjets, the R800 made a mess of narrow parallel lines.
And when we tried to print our CMYK-format test photo with this model,
we ran into the same problem that we did with Epson's Stylus Photo R200:
The photo sometimes printed too dark and appeared severely underexposed.
Even when it did print correctly, the image was a little duller than
when output from other printers we tested. (CMYK is not typically used
with PC printers, but most of our test models handled it without
difficulty). Images printed on the R800 in the more-common RGB format
looked gorgeous, with realistic textures, sharp detail, and strong, rich
colors.
The R800 doesn't win any medals for speed: Text pages emerge at 2.1 ppm,
a hair faster than the slowest rate we've seen lately, and photos take a
more ordinary 0.4 ppm.
UPSHOT: If you plan on printing a lot of snapshots,
you'll appreciate the R800's roll feeder; and as long as you stick with
RGB files, the R800 will reward you with great-looking photo prints.
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