Epson Stylus Photo R1800 Inkjet Printer

I have been sitting here all day long printing nozzle checks, replacing one ink cartridge after another, running the cleaning cycle, and then printing another atrocious nozzle check. I have moved the print head off the cap and cleaned it (which has worked for the last year, but not today). I have not printed a single photo without horizontal lines and I am at the end of my rope and the end of my willingness to spend mega $$$ on ink cartridges. Too bad the gallery won't be getting any of my photos tomorrow or in the near future.
I gave this printer one star because it printed beautifully for about one year.

This is a serious ink hog, which seriously sucks, but the worst aspect of this printer is that it must be cleaned constantly, and I mean all the time, which uses up a tremendous amount of ink. Just plan on cleaning as a regular part of your printing routine. I'm not kidding.

I bought this printer as refurbished from Epson for $300+. The first thing I want to note is when it arrived I couldn't find anything that didn't look brand new. I print my own photographs. Though I'm not a professional, I do use the ICC settings. The results have been incredible.

I'm an Oracle DBA and print a lot of data model plots, which necessarily have to be larger than 8.5" x 11". I print on
11" x 17" or more often on 13" x 19". What a difference it makes, and since I use adjusted ICC settings even for these, they are the most beautiful plots you'll ever see . . .

I honestly love this printer.

I got this as a gift 1 year and 2 months ago. I did not open it, take it out of the box or anything until this past month. I used it once to print 2 pictures and it worked great. The third time I went to use it the photo quality was so poor -- faded picture, pixelated, off center. I called the service center and they walked me through cleaning the nozzles, running tests, etc...which I had already done. They they proceeded to tell me that it was a hardware problem and they would not replace or fix it because the warranty had run out.

I understand that they have warranty timelines, however, it was new out of the box for less than a month when it broke...Even if it had been used for a year and 2 months (which it wasn't). I would not expect a $300+ printer to quit on me.

I'm EXTREMELY disappointed in the product and Epson as a company. I would not recommend this or any other printer from them.

The printer should come with a sledge hammer so you can smash it to bits when it frustrates the hell out of you...and it will!
Like everyone else, I get the media error. It only grabs the paper sometimes and even when it does it starts printing before the paper is under the nozzles so I lose some of the image.
It prints a LOT darker than the image looks on screen so you'll spend a lot of time making lighter versions of your designs so it will even look close to the screen representation.
Do yourself a favor and stay away from this piece of junk!!!!