Epson Stylus Photo R380 Inkjet Printer

Great photo and CD/DVD printer

Posted Sep 11, 2007 - Firs off, this printer is rather large and bulky. It uses quite a bit of ink, although having 6 different cartridges helps somewhat. This ink will cost you a lot of money, even if using off-brand. On the bright side the picture quality is superb and it prints on CD/DVDs labels. I wouldn't use it for printing text as it would be more expensive than some competition out there due to ink costs. But this is an excellent printer (although still expensive) for photos and CDs/DVDs.

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Epson Stylus Photo R380 Inkjet Printer

Posted Oct 2, 2007 - In summary, the Epson Stylus Photo R380 Inkjet Printer produces an excellent quality photo print, but it uses a lot of ink to do so. The ink cartridges are included with the printer (thank goodness!) and their replacement cost is about what I paid for the entire printer package – so it is like paying for the ink and getting the printer for free. If you need help with the printer, I found Epson customer service to be helpful. This printer has tons of features. The colors that the printer produces are natural and vivid. I love this printer, but I wish it used less ink.

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Great Photo Printer

Posted Jan 26, 2007 - Let me start off by saying I almost sent this printer back. The size is huge for an inkjet, and the printer does not fit well on my desk. Because of this, I've decided to relocate the printer to another room in my home and network it. If size is a concern for you, this is NOT the printer you want. I previously had one of the better HP models. It is still my main printer for text and everyday use. This Epson uses lots of ink and Epson cartridges are pricey. Find an off-brand and stick to it. There is a nice front compartment for SD cards, etc. There is a door covering it, protecting it from dust, etc. Also, replacing ink cartridges is quite a pain. The top lifts back, but with its size, if it's in a small space, this is a problem. I kept this printer solely to print digital camera pictures, after all - that's what it is marketed as, really. I wouldn't consider it an everyday printer, but it's a top notch photo printer. The picture quality is better than my local lab. By the way, when sign companies print large colored banners, ads ,etc.... those machines are Epson or at least use Epson components. I didn't think a home printer, especially at this price, could put out the quality this machine achieves. It's a great photo printer, but not an all-around.

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So far a great printer with lots of features

Posted Jan 3, 2007 - I purchased this printer a few days ago to replace my Epson R300 that I was quite happy with, but broke (after quite alot of usage). So far i've printed about 30 text & mixed text/graphic pages, and about 40 DVD's, and the printer has worked fantastically. My only real complaint is that the printer still has very long initialization times when its been idle for awhile. Out of all the DVD's I've printed, not one was mis-fed or rejected because the tray was mis-aligned or anything (my old R300 did this quite often). Print speed seems fairly fast, with somewhat of an improvement over the R300 speed wise. Image quality is excellent. It would also be nice if the ink cartridges were more reasonably priced. With the R300 and other printers, I still usaully have to resort to buying 3rd party ink cartridges as I just cant see spending over $60 for new Epson ones. But this is the case with all the printer manufactures. However with my R300, the generic inks provided excellent results, and its demise was due to mechanical problems with the paper feeding (so the generic ink cant be faulted as I'm sure Epson would like). overall, I'd give this an 8.5 out of 10 rating (but my 10's are almost non-existent).

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GOOD and Bad

Posted Mar 4, 2007 - The printer is nice if you use the printer for printing DVD or CD and photos but the ink cost a lot of money. if you plan on Saving money, you can buy something call continuous ink system it can be installed in less than 5 minutes and will save you a ton of money in the long run, just go to Google or what ever search engine you use and type {Epson Stylus Photo R380 continuous ink system} and find the one you wont How Expensive can ink be hear is a Example When using a standard print ink cartrages, and printing photos that are 4 x 6 in size, the ink will usally run out after about 30 photos, now lets you payed $80.00 to $50.00 for your ink cartrages, each photo will cost you $2.60 to $1.60 I must say No Thank you to this because I can go to the local Wal-mart or K-mart and get my Digital prints for as lows as .12 to .16 cents a photo so for 30 photo it will cost about $3.60 to $4.80 for all 30 prints compaired to $80.00 to $50.00 dollars the math is to simple. if you used a continuous ink system you save about 90% over the cost of what ink cartrage cost a lot cheaper. For me though i plain to return my printer, why because the way i use a printer i just print documents, floor plans, and a few photo now and then, so for me it is not worth it, but print straight to a dvd is nice though. I will Probably buy a HP Business inkjet 1200d instead because it has large Ink cartrages the Black ink cartage will hold 69ml of ink, and each color ink cartrage will hold 28ml of ink each.

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The best longlasting photos

Posted Feb 6, 2007 - This is a great photo printer, and I can tell because I use it with a 10.1 megapixel D-SLR, and host of lenses (10-22mm wide angle, 28-135mm, 105 macro, and a 100-400mm telephoto). Gorgous photos. Uses lots of ink, should not be used for anything but photos and inkable DVDs/CDs.

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Nice Color

Posted Mar 2, 2007 - The printer is nice for photo print. The print is precise and vivid color displayed. However, the ink is expensive which prevent you use it frequently otherwise the cost is too high.

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My local warehouse lab is much better.

Posted Jun 13, 2007 - I bought this printer for my wife to simplify her printing needs for scrapbook projects. My main reasons for selecting this printer over others was the HD reviews and the quality of the inks. This was the only ink jet printer I had found that would produce a print that lasts for 200 years in an album. The print, from a Panasonic FX3 6 megapixel camera, using an SD card directly inserted in the printer, and printing a 4x6 at high quality showed considerable grain. Skin tones were ok but any dark colored items were clearly degraded. The same image printed from our local mega warehouse club lab looked as good as any print from a film 35mm camera. Just to make sure it wasn't the 6MP camera I used another image taken from a Nikon D200 10.2MP camera. Again printing direct from the memory card the results were the same. I checked the manual and changed my output settings to use the camera's color values and there was no improvement. One of the prints from this series was also over saturated with ink so badly that there were pools of ink on the paper. The print directly after it was fine. We returned the printer and are looking for another option.

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More rfined and still a lot of bang for the buck

Posted Mar 12, 2007 - I've been using an earlier iteration of this printer platform, the R200, for several years mainly to print CDs. Its been a delight albeit at times quirky and infuriating due to the chipped ink carts. In my limited usage of the 380, it seems like some of the rough edges of the CD printing function have been smoothed, and apparently OEM cartidges no longer show up as empty when they are not, a vast improvement. The 200 was easily the most fun printer I've ever had, and so far I expect the 380 will continue in its steps. And how often do you have a chance to have a printer that is fun?

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Well Thought Out Printer Operation

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

Posted Jan 31, 2008 - Overall, a great printer for all roun printing. For printing on dvd this printer excels, however photo quality can be a little better. Great option in the photo print without a computer.

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a big and great photo printer

Posted Dec 23, 2007 - This is the best photo printer I have had. Produce very sharp and accurate colors. also print on CD and DVDs, my first photo printers having this feature. However, the ink seems going down very quickly and I am afraid it will cost a lot to buy ink.

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Wonderful but problamatic

Posted Nov 26, 2007 - This is the second one I've owned. The first one went back to the factory right away. Both had the same problem. High Ink Usage! Let me elaborate. On both printers, when I put in fresh cartridges, the printer made the typical ink charging sound for about 5 minutes. Then, mysteriously, all the ink cartridges showed a sudden drop of 1/4 in the Status Monitor. This is totally unacceptable. Epson did not give me an argument about this, but sent me a new set. Well, the same thing happened. so now, I will get third party cartridges and keep my fingers crossed. I've owned at least 6 Epson printers. They are wonderful, but this one is irritating at best.

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review on stylus photo R380, great printer for home office

Posted Oct 17, 2007 - This is one great photo printer, I love this printer for its great color and speed. You can't beat this quality for the price, anywhere, from any other printer.

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R380

Posted Oct 16, 2007 - It prints very good quality picture can print directly on CD and DVD, the quality is very good. It is easy to setup. Has a good LCD screen to see preview and print. Has memory slot so can read directly from card.

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