great printer (Epson Stylus Photo 870)

Member Name: endo

Product:	Epson Stylus Photo 870
Date:	07/11/00 (229 review reads)
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Advantages: great quality

Disadvantages: a bit slow and expensive to run

This printer turns out great images on photo paper and reasonable images on normal paper. It has a 5 coulour cartridge and a black cartridge. Though they are cheap, the printer consumes quite a lot at 1440*720dpi, but it's worth it. There's practically no "pixelisation" and the shades are totally uniform. The straight paper path allows it to print on thicker paper than average printers. The text quality is good even though it's not the fastest printer for this. Build quality seems higher than average, and drivers are great. The drivers allow to center images to page print them to fit page and allow lots of tweaking to the actual printing (rgb/hue/saturation etc.).
This comes in very recommended for photo printing if you can afford the ink and paper costs. Well worth a look especially at its price.

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