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| Brand: Epson
Category: CE
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $49.94
You Save: $50.05 (50%)
New (43) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from $34.99
Rating:  46 reviews
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Apple MacOS X 10.2.8
Modem: None
Shipping Weight (lbs): 17.9
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 17.7 x 7.4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: Epson R280 Photo Printer
Model: Epson R280 Photo Printer
UPC: 010343866171
EAN: 0010343866171
ASIN: B000SDU7ZW
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 11-15 of 46
 Does not recongize ink cartiridges after 5 pages August 2, 2008
Brian J. Shuma
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Junk. Keeps telling me that Yellow and Black cartridges are not recognized/empty. Replaced them and they worked for 5 pages in about 1 week. Then empty again. I am not buying new ink again, I can get a new Canon for what this thing has cost me in ink.
 Blah Printer July 30, 2008
B. Salvon (San Diego | Boston)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We had been using our awesome work horse of a printer, the Epson 220 for a long time now and it finally went kaput! As a replacement we bought the 280 and all I have to say is, disappointing! Not only is it insanely loud when loading the paper it has POOR print quality, especially text.
We print a lot of stationery and the quality is sub-par for sure. Envelope printing was also "bleedy" looking and unclear.
We have no problem feeding 80lb cover paper through the machine, which is great, 100lb gets a little tricky. The 220 had severe paper feeding issues, especially towards the end.
If you are looking for a machine to print high quality, text or artwork this is NOT the printer for you. save yourself the money and trouble and go with a canon or some other printer, not the 280!
Inks are absurdly expensive and Epson makes it very difficult to purchase third party inks.
What a jalopy! But great CD/DVD & photo prints. July 5, 2008
C. Detter (Seattle, WA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I got this unit set up, printed a test page, a very good photo, and 3 very good DVDs using the included Epson Print CD software, then the next time I powered on all 3 panel lights started flashing.
The ink cartridge carriage whizzed around and sounded like it was printing on nothing. The software said my new ink cartrige was empty, and wouldn't relent until I actually broke out a new cartridge. Then it said another cartridge was empty. Fool me once! So I read through the manual, tried various fixes, nothing worked.
I called Epson support (the number for R280 support is in the back of the manual) and they had me unplug, restore the trays to normal printing position, then plug in and hold down the Power and Paper Out buttons simultaneously for 6 seconds to power on. This seemed to make it happy. I was able to go back to printing DVD's.
There's no reason to think that the unit won't flip out again, but if the system reset works reliably, then I would say this is worth it. The R280 is by far the BEST VALUE for a home-use CD/DVD print system I have found, assuming you can get it to work. If you're into cool electronic gadgets that require regular troubleshooting (like most Windows users), this is your printer!
3 have NEVER worked!! July 2, 2008
Erin McCombs (Hoover, AL USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have never even been able to see what kind of print quality this printer has because the 3 broken ones that I have received NEVER worked. I got one through my student discount when I bought my Macbook. It had a hardware issue so the place I got it from just sent me another one which also had a hardware issue where the ink cartridge could not move and it also made a VERY loud screeching noise when turned on. On that one I went through Epson's tech support and received another one in the mail today through the manufacturer's warranty. It has the exact same hardware issue as the 2nd one that I had. So now I have 3 broken R280's laying around. I wonder what Epson will do now. This is very cheaply made and I would not recommend it. Spend a little extra money and get the all-in-one. It's definitely manufactured better.
 beautiful pictures June 26, 2008
Concise Networks, LLC (Dayton, Ohio, USA)
The output from this printer is excellent. No regrets, but like all photo printers the ink is expensive. I'm considering reducing the cost of ink by purchasing a continuous ink system (check ebay).
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