Customer reviews from epson.com
Epson - Photo Printer
Average customer rating
4.4
(315 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 315 reviews
5 Stars
211
4 Stars
66
3 Stars
16
2 Stars
10
1 Star
12
90%of customers recommend this product.
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283 out of
315)
Customer Reviews for Epson - Photo Printer
Customer Rating
5
Epson 1400 Photo Printer
on November 6, 2011
Posted by: Marschall
from Hermiston, OR
This is my second 1400. I don't expect any difference from the last one. The 1400 is one of the finest printers I have used and owned. I use mine to print t-shirt transfers. Though this is not a portable printer, I have transported it numreous times for on site jobs. It has served me excellently for over 2.5 years in various conditions.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
5
Photo 1400 and windows 7
on November 4, 2011
Posted by: Printman
from Norfolk (UK)
The 1400 is a great printer with lots of flexibility and consistent reproduction of colours until you switch from XP and run it in windows 7. I have not found a means of being able to select printer preferences from the print menu. Which would enable type and size of print materiel to be selected plus colour adjustments. Is there a Driver for windows 7 ?
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
4
Pleased, but....
on October 27, 2011
Posted by: LZV
from Dracut, MA
This printer is fabulous, very simple to set up, and reasonably priced! The only problem I had was that the USB cable was not included, apparently I missed that little tidbit when I ordered the printer (it is noted in the "what's in the box" section). Luckily I had an old Epson printer, so I borrowed that cord. I'm not sure why Epson neglects to sell the product without the USB cord to connect to the computer??? It seems rather odd to me that one has to purchase the cord seperately???
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
5
Great printer!!!
on October 15, 2011
Posted by: Grace
from Tampa, FL
Using this printer to make "prints" of my artwork. Love the options for paper size. Individual ink cartridges are easy to change out when one is empty. No waste that way. Printer on cart ... too big for my computer armoire! So take note of dimensions.
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
5
on October 12, 2011
Posted by: Thread
from MI
This is a great large format printer. I own a screen printing business and use this printer to print inkjet positives. This is by far the best inkjet printer I have found. The price is very good also!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
5
Wow
on October 1, 2011
Posted by: ejbaker1957
from Belfair Wa
I just bought the 1400 printer. I printed a 13x19 photo of a bride I photographed. The print is amazing, clear, crisp and the color fidelity is wonderful. Great printer!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com
Customer Rating
5
epson 1400
on September 26, 2011
Posted by: nicksway1
from Maine
I purchased this to use with my screen printing business. This printer does an excellent job of printing fine details and excellent for printing half tones. I love it.
Paul
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
4
A 99% favorable review
on September 24, 2011
Posted by: Sensha
from Houston TX
Like other Epson products, this is (at the root level) a great printer. Good color fidelity, smooth operation, multiple functions. It's of a piece with the other Epson printers that I have used (including two Photo R800s).
However, there is a fly in the ointment, one that was not obvious from all of the information that I had read about the printer prior to the purchase.
I went looking for a printer that could produce CD labels for my musical group's CDs. I had literally worn out the two 800s over several years of use for same.
My graphics for the labels were rendered in Canvas, a high end Macintosh illustration program. Precisely aligned and wonderfully rendered onto the platters, they produced a flawless, Art Deco-themed disk that was cause for favorable comment by one and all. (They also printed up beautiful CD box inserts.)
Not so the new printer. After going through the set up process, pulling off all the blue tape, and installing the cartridges, I fired up Canvas, eagar to print a test copy to compare to an older product from the 800 series printers.
Unfortunately, the new printer wasn't buying it - all it did was sit there, gleaming on the dining room table. Bummer...
It seems that any software wanting to print on CD has to send a special signal to the printer in order to activate the CD printing process. No special signal, no CD printing, period.
No problem, I'll just turn to the included Print CD software and paste in the Canvas image.
Nope. It accepted the image, but nothing that I could do would align the graphic with the CD template. And, in any event, the graphics did not retain the sharp resolution of the original program.
So, it was time to recreate the whole label in the Print CD software. That's where I found that Print CD was capable of printing labels on CDs, but not the label that would equal the product of a "real" graphics program.
First off, the interface was "PC clunky". Lots of dialog boxes, non-intuitive processes, and hidden options that were barely described in the documentation and help files. Not a fun thing for a Macintosh person.
Second, while the software seemed to offer a lot of options, once the on-screen image was transfered onto the platter, the outcome was somewhat less than optimal.
As an example, our CD has (or, should I really say "had") the group name printed around the circumference of the disk, this in an "Arts Decoratif" font called LucalTC TT. The spacing on the group's name was expanded by a couple of points, setting it off from the rest of the text.
Print CD offers an expanded text option in its many menus and dialog boxes. But, applying it to the manually entered text in the program's dialog boxes resulted (in the printed product) with each word's initial capital letter being spaced too far from the rest of the text in the word.
So, it was lose the expansion of the text. It made for a stilted end product, but at least it was properly spaced on the disk.
When it was laid down on the disk, the final output from the Print CD program was about 75% as good as that obtained by using Canvas. Some flaws were minor (a slight rotational alignment error on one text element that I was never able to remove, try as I might), but the spacing issue was a real bummer.
And, Print CD doesn't play well with the rest of the Macintosh world. Sure, it may be a PC program, but porting it over to the Macintosh without enabling Command-X for "Undo"? And, what's with the program shutting me out from using my Airport network while Print CD is in operation?
When all was said and done, I managed to turn out an end product that was "good enough", in the eyes of my wife. But, I doubt that Print CD output would measure up to the standards of most commercial artists.
With better CD printing functions and/or printing software, I would rate this printer at a 5 - it's a great printer with wide format abilities and CD printing utility. But, locking out real graphics software from printing the CD label is a real mistake.
We bought it because we needed CD printing right now. Unfortunately, there was no way to determine this problem beforehand. Caveat emptor...
I would recommend this to a friend!
Written by a customer while visiting epson.com