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Rating:  - A real disappointment
I've had my printer now for 1.5 years, and have constantly battled with it. I've returned 3 and received 3 refurbished units, all with the same problems...(banding, ink randomly dropped on the photos, constant need to clean the print heads, etc.)...I thought it might be the USB connection, but saw no improvement when I switched it to the parallel port. I do think, however, that it has to do with the computer-printer interface, to have the same problem with 4 different units. I have 80-100 pages that printed so badly that I couldn't use them, which is pretty expensive given the amount of ink the printer consumes. Epson support was of very little help. I too have a friend who gets WONDERFUL prints off of her Epson 1280, but can't figure out why I don't get the same results...
Rating:  - everyone else's is better than mine...
i am a design student and bought the 1280 because i could print 11X17's on it. i have had problems with faint horizontal lines and leaking cartridges, jammed heads just after i finished cleaning them, etc. i have a friend at school who also uses this model, and the same epson inks and epson paper as i do, and her print quality is much better than mine. the problems i've had come and go, and when i've gotten fed up, and called epson to replace it (within my warranty period) they wouldn't, saying it's the usb port that is the problem (i haven't had any other problems with the usb port on any other electronics). like i said, it usually works well, but it seems like when i need it the most, it fails for me. i wouldn't purchase it again.
Rating:  - like a Rolls
It was silent....fast, on certain papers. Great prints, even better looking than the picture on my monitor, and I have a sharp one. The first night, I worked it to death, getting ready for a photography show and it kept pumping them out with no complaints. Time will tell, but as of now, I'm in love with it "the Epson 1280".The ink costs big $$$$$ but it's the good stuff, fade and water resistant....not proof...I made large prints up to 13" X 19" and best of all, the printer is not all that big! I am very happy with the printer and I'm not easy.
Rating:  - Great Printer
I bought this printer about a month ago and it is without a doubt the best printer I have ever owned.
I have printed my photos on a variety of paper including Epson Colorlife, heavyweight matte, and my favourite paper is Lumijet Classic Velour. All of the papers produce excellent results but the Colorlife paper is the most 'photo realistic' and the Lumijet makes the photos look like [quality] art prints.
I don't think it is noisy(not as noisy as my HP's), but it is really an ink pig.
This printer is probably the best value on the market.
Rating: - Great printer
I found that the roll paper is much easier for printing multiple prints. There is the well remarked upon curl, but it is conveniant. To remove curl just roll the paper backwards and then place something heavy and flat on top of the pictures for a while. The printer comes with a flattener, which I have found semi-effective at removing the curl. The hardest part about roll paper is removing the curl, and loading. With premium glossy photo paper the prints are indistinguishable from standard prints IF your pic has the proper resolution (I limit my 2048x1536 pics to an 8.5x11 pic). I haven'n tried printing any panoramas. This printer has been avalible for a few years, per my info, and has been replaced with the Epson stylus photo 2200, but this printer may be more economical for text, but I can't say, as I haven't tried the 2200. The 2200 has seperate cartrages for each colour, unlike this one, which has one colour and one black, but unless you print a lot of colour this printer will do nicely. It seems that the 2200 was really designed for photos only, an assumption based of second-hand info.
The biggest annoyence I have had has dissapeared, and was the in the begining the printer was printing about 1/8" to the side on roll paper, cutting off the top, and leaving white space at the bottom and ink on the foam pad under the ink nozzles. This only occured when printing borderless, and has dissappeared.
The thing I find most annoying is the process of making sure that the correct settings are selected. I have created some "custom" settings to make this easier.
Also, printing borderless is only avalable for certain paper types, and you must select the correct paper type for the best printing. I think that this is purely software, but sometimes it would be useful to print borderless on plain paper.
These things having been said, I will say that there aren't many ways I can think of to improve this printer.
Tor
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