Epson Stylus Photo 2200 Inkjet Printer

Epson photo 2200. This is the best printer ever for the task I only use it to print black. Best part of it I can install clone ink cartridges the machine accepts them allways. unlike my HP all in one worst printer ever. this Epson beats the HP hands down.

I'm in college and have no choice but to use this printer to print out important projects. I work with Illustrator and InDesign, and though I resize the file image to a size far smaller than the huge matte paper that I must print with, the printer either consistently crops everything or makes the image smaller than I specified. This cost me many sheets of expensive matte paper, and probably half of the school's ink supply, just trying to GET IT RIGHT.

The one time that I succeeded in configuring everything correctly, which took far more time, sweat and tears than a simple printer should deserve, the print quality was horrible. There were rows of thin white lines going across the image. I hope after I leave school that I will never see this printer again.

It's been three years since I bought this printer; hundreds of photographs later with dozens of color cartridges spent I can honestly claim that this is one fantastic printer. I use it in La Paz, Bolivia (13,000 feet high) and I never had a problem with the printer or with the quality of the prints. The color profiles that come with most professional paper make it a snap to print form Photoshop. The only possible down-side to this printer is that the cartridges are very expensive and don't last much, but for the quality of the prints produced... this is one well though out product that will last a long, long time.

I have owned this printer for two years and both used it hard at times and left it unused for several weeks at a time. I have had no trouble whatsoever with it. In fact I believe it to be the best Epson I have ever owned. You have to wonder if the folks that have had trouble with it are using generic ink, something we have not done.

You will be constanly cleaning print heads and using up all your ink not printing. The cost of ink combined with the cost to keep the printer running smoothly is a fortune. Online they will tell you sometimes waiting a day after cleaning will help but frankly when I go to print, I need to print. Basically you need to constantly print on this to keep from wasting your ink on cleanings but instead you'll be wasting your ink at the same rate on frivulous printings.