Epson Stylus Photo R220 Ink Jet Printer (C11C626011)
Product Description
From the Manufacturer
Get creative with your photos and CDs! It's easy with the Epson Stylus Photo R220, an impressive 6-color printer that brings quality and convenience home at a truly remarkable value. The perfect solution for all your photo projects, it quickly delivers brilliant scrapbook pages, homework assignments and more. And, it prints directly on ink jet printable CDs and DVDs. It's the ideal solution -- whatever the task at hand. Use it to personalize a CD or DVD with your own text, graphics and photos. It's a great idea for party favors or personalized gifts. The included software lets anyone create eye-catching CDs and DVDs using their favorite photos. You're sure to get great results every time with up to 5760 x 1440 optimized dpi and ultra fine 3-picoliter ink droplets. This, combined with innovative Micro Piezo ink jet technology, ensures photo lab quality color and detail for vivid, long lasting results. And, with convenient individual ink cartridges, you take control of the ink usage, replacing only the color that runs out. With fast print speeds, exceptional paper handling capabilities and convenient connectivity, the Epson Stylus Photo R220 offers the power and versatility you need to create high quality home printing projects. Print directly on ink jet printable CDs/DVDsProvides a fast, easy way to create professional quality 12- and 8-centimeter disc surfaces through a convenient front-loading tray. Achieve precision color and detail
- Includes Epson 6-color photo inks for vivid, long lasting results
- Prints at up to 5,760 x 1,440 optimized dpi using ultra fine ink droplets (as small as 3 picoliters)
- Offers BorderFree printing in popular, frame-ready sizes (4-by-6, 5-by-7, 8-by-10, and 8.5-by-11-inches)
- Prints a 4-by-6-inches borderless photo in as fast as 57 seconds
Epson Stylus Photo R220 Ink Jet Printer
Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 11 x 13 inches ; 15 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 16 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
- ASIN: B000AYA588
- Item model number: C11C626011
Price : $255.00
Technical Details
- 5,760 x 1,440 dpi maximum resolution, 3-picoliter drop size
- Up to 15 ppm color, 15 ppm black
- Prints a 4-by-6-inches borderless photo in as fast as 57 seconds
- Complete, easy to use CD and DVD face printing solution
- USB interface, PC and Mac compatible, 1-year warranty
Customer Reviews
I think this printer is pretty good and I gave it four stars because I am slightly disappointed with a few of the features, but I am overlooking some of these because the printer is under 100 bucks, so I guess you get what you pay for! Just in case it helps you make your decision, here are some of the idiosyncrasies
1. Your cd or dvd will need to dry for at least 24 hours after being printed before you are recommended to use it in a cd/dvd drive.
2. You need to manually align the cd tray to these little arrows right before it prints. Why couldn't they just design it to let the user push the tray all the way in? The arrows aren't that easy to see.... and I just hate relying on my manual alignment skills :-(
3. Turning the printer off will waste a lot of ink when you need to re-start it. The printer will "load" the print cartridges, which I think is Epson's term for "we want to get you to buy more ink so we can make a profit on this $99 printer."
4. Photos aren't as true to photo quality as I get with my Canon MP730 - but this is ok for me since I bought the printer solely for its cd/dvd printing ability.
Overall, this is a pretty good printer, but I would give it 5 stars if I wasn't annoyed by the above "features"
Happy Shopping!
I might give it a 5 stars for the cost vs utility but this printer is a total waste of ink; if you have a habit of turning off the printer after printing (like myself), every time you turn this printer (or any photo printer from EPSON) on it will recharge the ink or in more understandable term it will perform a small version of head cleaning, with or without the real need :(
What does this recharging cost Approximately anywhere between 5% to 10% of the ink every time, in other words you need to buy ink cartridges little faster then actually required but again this is where printer manufactures make most of the money now a days and EPSON is no different then others.
On the flip side this is Energy Star compliant printer and use only 3W if you leave it on standby mode thus save you from recharging the ink all the time.
About quality of the prints and DVD/CD printing option; this printer will meet or exceed any standards of any comparable product in the market. Period.
6 color printing is bringing real detail with true colors and having 6 different cartridges is a plus for buying ink.
With my experience I found that printing speed; mentioned in description; is nothing but a load of BULL, or may be they are talking about draft printing speed and very conveniently forgot to mention the word "Draft" while writing the specification about printing speed. :)
If you are one of those "hotwire guys" who "refill" their ink and print like news paper press, you might need to buy a set of clear view cartridges so you can see how much ink you are putting in along with a EPOSN cartridge chip reset gadget to reset the counter or be ready to say bye bye to low cost ink and start buying ink cartridges. "Continues Ink Systems" or CIS are also available in the market for this printer. I myself use one of those and life is good
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