Re: Is the Epson 820 any good at all?
Re: Is the Epson 820 any good at all?
- Subject: Re: Is the Epson 820 any good at all?
- From: "Adriano Von Markendorf" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:02:12 -0300
----- Original Message -----
From: <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:35 AM
Subject: Is the Epson 820 any good at all?
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Hello everyone...
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I've been reading about the nubs, and I just have to add my disapoinments.
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The one and only reason I recently decided to switch to Epson, was the six
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color cartridge that is supposed to help with midtones in people's faces.
My
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HP 932 Photo Quality Printer has high contrast. Dark reds. Bad midtones.
Hard
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or no gradients in highlights and shadows, etc...
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But this Epson 820 is a nightmare of a different kind.
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I cannot get it to finish printing one photo that is only 5 x 8 inch with
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about a 800K file size, even though my computer has 320 MB physical RAM,
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virtual memory on, HP software all trashed, memory use of all Epson
software
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and programs increased.
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It just stops printing and spits out the paper giving a different message
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every time, usually paper jam. But each time I have tried to print there
has
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been only one sheet of photo paper in the printer, which came with the
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printer, and the portion that does print is very even, so itbs not going
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through crooked and jamming.
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I even tried uninstalling and trashing all the Epson software, rebuilding
the
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desktop and starting over...
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Anyway...
I think that you may reinstall your OS too.
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It does print Word Documents, but not until an incredibly long and noisy
song
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and dance that seems ridiculous.
Word?? Oh boy... well, there are somany reasons to expect problems like
that. But I have this printer runing without a problem in Mac or PC in my
house, the overkill issue It''s not about the epson printers, but about your
printer and/or your aplicattions/OS.
You may could to give more info about your issue.
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The HP 932 at least prints quickly, quietly, and reliably, every single
time
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(except for face colors), so I have decided to return my Epson 820 for a
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refund, and I may even try a newer HP printer until I can buy a much more
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expensive Epson.
Good luck.;-J
Regards,
Adriano von Markendorf email@hidden
"I-C-Cm vitamin's inside" Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
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