The convenience : The Epson Artisan 800 All - In - One with Wi - Fi and facsimile machine . On paper , it has all the sign of being the serious AIO ever made , especially for citizenry who want versatility but care deep about fine photographic prints .
The Price : $ 300
The Verdict : So far , man is it awesome … for a printing machine / scanner / copier / fax simple machine , that is .
I bang printer . Like well . For a few years , I ’d get the newest ones and play a double - unreasoning mark timbre test . I get down drill because Epson would always gain ground . HP accused me of let personal taste get in the way of objectivity , to which I respond , “ Call me back when you get the gloss Amytal figured out . ” ( My phone has yet to ring . )
Anyway , when I heard about Epson ’s total revamp of its all - in - one , I was happy and frightened . Epson might have been the champion at picture quality , but its printers were n’t always the easy to apply . Besides , they were often slower than Canons or horsepower . But the Artisan could have traded in print quality to improve speed ( an sometime HP trick ) . And besides , the Artisan has Wi - Fi , a sure sign of future technical school - support calls .
jubilantly , my awe flex out to be nonsense : position up the printer was easy ( though I did follow directions cautiously , which is not my received MO ) . The virtuoso worked great on the Mac , and I easy add the printer ’s wireless visibility and drivers to another Mac and a Vista PC afterward with the same install disc , all printing without a hiccough . You might say “ Big whup ! ” but swear me , wireless networking set - ups often do n’t operate as bill , specially across both Macs and PCs .
The Modern touchscreen user interface is great , giving you plenty of soft options in plain English , rather than a few choices in terse one - give-and-take buttons . As you could see in the shots below , there are fix contextual touch buttons in addition to the LCD , making the interface even more flexible . I especially like that the facsimile dial - pad is hidden away , so that if you use it , great , but if you do n’t , you wo n’t feel like you ’re wasting part of your leverage . Speaking of facsimile , the 800 has a document canvas feeder construct powerful in , crucial for multi - page fax and useful for simulate and scanning too .
The print calibre was amazing , as I anticipate . What surprised me was how bloody tight this sod is . I could get a gorgeous borderless 4×6 in under 18 seconds , and of form it could pull off larger size fairly speedily too , let in the problematical 8×10 . ( HP once separate me that 8×10 , which it did n’t support , was n’t in demand by photographers ; Epson has always had an 8×10 option . )
The one thing you ’re still gon na detest about the printer is that each ink cartridge is still the size of a matchbook and damned if you wo n’t incinerate through them all too fast . You get a 2nd ( BONUS ! ) black magazine in the corner , but all that tells me is that Epson is abashed about its ink dependency . Other pressman Maker will try hard to address the ink - shortfall problem — Kodak betray printer for more money and ink for less — but inevitably that root come at the cost of good ironware and high - character prints . Go with Epson if you require the good film and , in this case , the best all around use , but remember that you will pay up for that expiation in ink . [ Epson ]
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