Expensive Rubbish! (Epson Stylus Photo 895)

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Product:	Epson Stylus Photo 895
Date:	23/07/02 (48 review reads)
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Advantages: It prints!, Lots of functions, Good maximum resolution

Disadvantages: Poor print quality, Huge lines through your work, Colour ink smudges

This year, I got a digital camera, and after reading about the Epson Stylus Photo 895, I thought it would be great if I could print my pictures out without having to go to a shop. I was drastically wrong!
This printer really is the pits - for £200 you get on your page:
* An annoying black smudge on every page.
* Often loads of black dots because of printer cartridge blockage/spillage.
* Lines through ordinary black and white printing.
* Lines through the maximum resolution.
* Smudging with the colour ink.
Wow!! - not an awful lot which is good there, is there! Ok, heres the good points about the printer, for £200 you get:
* It prints! - yes, I know thats a biggie, but it is worth a mention in the Advantages column - nothing else to fill it with.
* Its got a good maximum resolution - if the ink didn't smudge it would be great!
* Its got a memory card reader - which is pritty cool if the thing printed properly.
* It can except rolls, ideal sized photograph printing paper.
Now, before you go out and waste your money, let me tell you now - don't. It has got a lot of functions and I'm not denying that - but the print quality is so awful, the functions arn't worth paying for!
I have written to Epson several times to complain about the printer, and did recieve a reply a few weeks later, telling me to send some sample prints in. I did so, and have not heard from them since!
I also mentioned how I'd cleaned it using the software many times, replaced the cartridges and the same thing still happenned.
Conclusion - If you get this printer after reading this, then you are silly - its got lots of functions that do work, but because it can't print properly, I'd go for a different model.

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