Great Printer

I bought this printer and love it, but was shocked when I needed to buy more ink, So I ended up buying a CIS System for it, and I can print much cheaper than using the Epson cartridges, added a waste ink container to mine also,

trouble free beautiful photos, for pennies once I got the CIS system.

Great printer, all in one

My husband bought me this printer/all-in-one (the 800) for Christmas about eight months ago. It's the best printer I've ever had. I love the touch screen menu display, being able to fax, print, print photos, and scan all from one place. I bought the optional duplex unit so that I can print doublesided. It wasn't expensive, and it saves a lot of paper. I buy off-brand ink online, and it works fine. That really cuts down on my ink costs. You can save fax numbers that you dial often (speed dial).

The only thing I don't like is that you can't scan directly from the unit (if you are connected wirelessly via Vista), and you must scan from the glass, one sheet at a time, rather than putting a stack at the top and clicking "Scan." However, when I do scan, the quality is great.

Fails to deliver

On the positive side, the print quality is excellent. However, the printer has very poor paper handling, it will not feed cardstock, and will often take 2 or 3 sheets of regular paper at a time. It always prints and extra sheet at the end of a job (and yes, i have the feature turned OFF in the preferences, but it still does it). It is very easy to forget to fully extend the paper out tray after filling the paper tray, causing your printouts to be scattered on the floor. All of the trays are very flimsy. And to top things off, the first time I tried to open the CD tray, the tray came out of its track, and now it won't print anything because it keeps saying there is an error, please turn off the device and turn it back on.

Greatest Printer Ever for Home!!

I bought this printer on line from best Buy. I almost diin't because of a couple reviews i read about envelopes and ink. But once i purchased it and set it up. I can see its the best printer i have owned for pictures. I have had no problems with printing envelopes. As far as the ink if you use the high capacity 98 cartridges they don't run out so fast. The low capacity 99"s do run out kind of fast though. But it prints superbly on cd's and dvd's. The person having a problem with printing envelopes just needs to try another program. I believe they will be satisfied then.

Great Printer -- Bad Ink

I really hardly ever use my printer, but you've got to have one right?! So I got this one becaue of the features plus the WIFI capability. I have already had to change all of the ink cartridges a few times (they do send you some ink with the printer...but that is pretty useless). Plus if any ONE of the cartridges are completely out of ink - you cannot print at all, untill you replace it. I mostly print in black so if a random color cartridge goes dry I have to replace it before I can print anything! How crazy!? I have heard that a lot of newer printers are using this technique.

Overall I think this is a pretty good printer. Great scanner, pretty fast printing (once it gets going), haven't used the print on CD feature yet - but it seems like a neat feature.

I'd probably still recomend this printer -- but beware! You will spend a ton of money on ink!