Strengths:Prompts for a replacement ink cartridge before it runs dry during a print job. Able to print multiple DVDs from one print job.
Weaknesses:You may want to charge your clients a little more for each project to cover the ink costs.
Posted Apr 3, 2007 - Aside from the excellent print quality, the Epson R380 has two features that has helped me waste less paper and save time while printing.
First, like Epson of old, if it's out of ink, it's not going to print, but with this printer, it will force you to change an ink cartridge before it prints a page or pages with the characteristic low ink stripes. If you're printing out DVD inserts, it's nice to not waste some of them because of partial coverage. Also, the printer allowed me to change the ink cartridge in the middle of a print run and then continue on with the rest of the run without having to reset the print job from the computer (OS X at least).
Second, like the ink cartridge change experience, I was able to select File/Print once, enter how many copies of a DVD I wanted to print and then I was able to print that many DVDs without having to reselect File/Print for each DVD. Not a big time saver unless you're up a against a deadline and every little moment counts.
The printer's size seems a little bulky, but it also seems to be a better built printer than some of it's smaller counterparts.
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Epson r380
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Wonderful but problamatic
My local warehouse lab is much better.
