Epson? brilliant.

botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited March 2004 in Hardware
I bought my second Epson printer in October, I'd had the first about 5 years.
The new one (a photo 925) needed the heads cleaning too often so I called them on Friday afternoon. On Monday morning a tech called round and gave me a new one. Now that's service. Thank you Epson.

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  • KingFishKingFish
    edited March 2004
    The first digital camera I had was an epson. Epson wasn't considered a top tier brand but the camera was excellent and produced great quality pictures. It finally kicked the bucket after a few years of rigorous use. It's a shame they have minimized their presence in the digital camera arena. Their products are top notch in my opinion.

    KingFish
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    KingFish wrote:
    The first digital camera I had was an epson. Epson wasn't considered a top tier brand but the camera was excellent and produced great quality pictures. It finally kicked the bucket after a few years of rigorous use. It's a shame they have minimized their presence in the digital camera arena. Their products are top notch in my opinion.

    KingFish

    I can get Olympus Camedia 4000Z pics to print true to color very well on my Epson c84, ie the Epson color matching works for them quite well. What Epson did was to make the priners more compliant with color matching used by Adobe and other digital cam software for several brands of that. Because they did not really mfr their own branded digicam engines anyway, the printers had to be tuned to what they bought private-labelled. They could not make a profit margin enough to justify continuing, so they deemphasized the Epson sales of digicams in North America and many other parts of the world and made the printers better for use with other brands. This actually worked out better for average consumer, there are now a bunch of mfr's cameras that work right with Epson printers.

    John D.
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I used to be an Epson fanboy. But then I realised that after having a printer for a long time you end up wasting loads of ink by having to constantly realige print heads.

    I now have an HP printer.

    ~Cyrix
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited March 2004
    The second digital camera I bought was a fujifilm. It also takes good quality pictures but I still miss the look and feel of the epson. I know they (epson) had some proprietary method of picture interpolation to boost the size of the pictures taken that was soon copied in one form or another by other camera manufacturers so they were pioneers of sorts with digital cameras. I've generally bought HP printers though, they are just so darned easy to use. If I need to print pictures from a digital camera, I usually have them printed in bulk so I go to Walgreens and have them printed on photo paper. That way I don't get eaten by high ink consumption and the quality is top notch. I've gotten the ball rolling with crime scene digital photography in our department. When they need pictures pronto, they call me out. I know epson printers generally get good reviews but I've never owned one. The ones my friends have owned have all been good quality.

    KingFish
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited March 2004
    just called up epson myself, not 5 minutes ago did i get off the phone with them, and they're wonderful. my c82's yellow print head wasn't working, well, at all, even with a brand new epson cartriage, so i gave them a call. I now have a printer that should arive monday or tuesday, and i just have to slap on a prepaid UPS label onto the box and ship mine right back to them, simple as that.... Great printer until the yellow started to go all funky on me
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