Pros: Cheap, fast, great prints, good ink length
Cons: Noisy and sluggish

The Printer

Being stamped a photo printer these days, for an inkjet, is very significant. Considering a true photo printer costs in the region of half a grand for a decent one, the inkjet alternative that is Epson’s Stylus Photo...

Pros: Excellent quality borderless photos, affordable
Cons: Ink cartridges are expensive and run out quickly

You know, the problem with buying one new high tech gadget is that it inevitably leads to another. In November my husband and I bought ourselves a Canon Digital S110 camera to take on our family trip to Hawaii. We came home with lovely memories and...

Pros: Prints excellent photo quality pictures.
Cons: It runs out of ink fairly fast.

Overall, I was very excited when we bought this printer and brought it home. The ink is cheap compared to my laser printer. I love being able to print off documents with color again. I have had no problems with paper jamming. The one problem I have...

Pros: GREAT print quality, waterproof prints! easy to use, small footprint
Cons: Would not be good for production printing

I happened across a wonderful deal of a printer! My Epson 820! I was using another brand, and still have that brand, but the photo quality was just not what I was looking for.

One day while shopping at Micro Center, I saw a demo of this...

Pros: Excellent print quality and color. Cheapest, good quality photo inkjet on the market.
Cons: Could be quicker and ink could last a little longer

I've had my printer for just over a week now and have put over 30, 8 1/2 x 11, with over 50% coverage, high gloss photo pages, 10 gloss sticker pages and a bunch of regular 8 1/2 x 11 pages through it already. I've gone through one color cart and have...

Pros: Excellent photo quality prints without waiting forever.
Cons: It whines.

Well, the most important thing about a printer is the print quality. I have yet to use the highest resolution setting, and yet the output I see is better than printers 3 to 4 times the price. It is quick and the images are excellent. As with all...

Pros: Very crisp color photos, clean text, very reliable unit at a low price
Cons: Wish controls were in front

This is a great printer for the price. It doesn't have all the fancies and best that it doesn't. Wha ...

Pros: Great picture photos
Cons: A little noisy

The Epson 820 printer was recommended to me by a dear friend. She kept telling me that I must have ...

Pros: Low Price Point, 6 Colors, Epson Reputation, Lab Quality Prints, Border-free Printing
Cons: Relatively High Ink Consumption, Cartridge Cost

I'll begin by explaining what led me to purchase the Epson Photo 820 printer. I had purchased an Alps MD-2010 printer about six years ago, which was about $500 at the time. The newer technologies were not out yet, so the dye-sub printers were leaps and...

Pros: Excellent quality photos
Cons: Uses lots of ink, a bit noisy, one color ink cartridge rather than individual tanks

This is a great printer. I have had an old Epson Stylus color 600 for the past 6 years. Recently I purchased a digital camera and soon realized that my old printer is simply not good enough to take full advantage of my digital photos. That is when I...

Pros: Beautiful prints, low initial cost
Cons: Ink hog, occasional problem with ink clog, expensive cartridges

The 820 can produce stunning photographs. My friends are amazed what the printer can do and literally drop their jaws when I told them the printer costs $80. The print is very good at normal viewing distance and rival traditional print unless you...

Pros: Prints great photos!
Cons: Noisy start up...uses lots of ink

I've owned my Epson 820 for approx one month. I've owned Hp and Lexmark printers previously and needed a printer with cheaper ink and the ability to print decent photos. I had heard and read so many positive reviews about Epson printers I decided to...

Pros: beautiful photo quality prints of all sizes, and it's under $100
Cons: slow print speed, uses alot of ink

I bought this printer for only $80 and have been loving it ever since. The print speed is rather slow, but the quality makes it worth it. I can print perfectly borderless prints of all sizes, you just tell the printing application what size paper you're...

Pros: Excellent photo printing
Cons: Best to use epson paper for photos

There's so much color printers out there that it is hard to determine what is good. Canon? HP? Lexmark? Epson?

Depending on features such as do you need a built in memory card reader on the printer to print photo without a PC, or the...

Pros: Awesome graphic results! Awesome graphic results! Awesome graphic results!
Cons: Awful ink consumption! Awful ink consumption! Awful ink consumption!

At the risk of sounding redundant, I believe the essence of the Epson 820 can be summed up as follows:

Awesome graphic results!
Awful ink consumption!

Before purchasing the Epson 820 I was a satisfied Canon BJC-3000 customer....