Good morning, does anyone own the Epson 750 Printer. I am thinking of getting it to use with my new Digital Camera. Please tell me any pros or cons, it will be used mostly to print color 6x7 pictures, but also some 8X11 color. Thank you. Norman. normanhowardhoward@home.com

-- Norman John Howard (normanhoward@home.com), November 11, 1999

Answers

I have an Epson 740 and I love it. And I have seen great reviews from others that the 750 is a great printer. One thing I have to comment on is that if you plan to print a lot of 8x10 pictures, you will go through your ink cartridges pretty quickly. A color cartridge goes for about $30 at Best Buy.

dave

-- David Erskine (davide@netquest.com), November 12, 1999.

I have a Epson 1200 which is the big brother to the 750 and the pictures are really fantastic. As mentioned before, they give away the printers and sell the ink! While $200-$500 may not seem a give away until you compare a few ounces of ink for $30! This is not exclusive to Epson, they all do it. However if you compare the cost of digital prints to having your own color darkroom to process film and prints, it really is not that expensive.

Why 6"x 7" prints? The paper is 8 1/2" by 11" and it is not free! I normally bring up MS Power Point and design a page of photos. It could be page as a presentation or just a lot of pictures in different sizes. I can always cut them later.

The 1200 came with Photoshop 5.0 LE. I think this program works very similiar to the $600 photoshop. Learning the art of using photoshop is not to be taken lightly. Hopefully the LE version will get me started and someday I could get a full version.

-- dave clark (daveclark@mail.com), November 12, 1999.

I have one. Output is extremely good. Consumables are kind of expensive but certainly competitive with other options. Most of my usage has not been totally photo related. I can tell you I have just printed several pictures that were e-mailed as jpegs and a jpeg landscape that I grabbed from an online source and I expected marginal results due to compression, etc. (On screen resolution does not need to be high for good viewing)I don't know what the original compressions were, etc. The quality at the roughly 5x7 size was absolutely acceptable using Epson photoquality inkjet paper. No qualms about recomending this printer except that there is a sun fading problem so prints can not be left in sunlight for great lengths of time.

-- Craig Gillette (cgillette@thegrid.net), November 12, 1999.

I also have an Epson Photo 750 and love it. As far as pricing cartridges, go to buy.com, they sell the color for around $12. No, that's not a typo.

You pay get a pizza-wheel effect also with it, most epson's do it. I posted an article a month or so ago on how I fixed it with $.75 worth of washers from Lowes.

In conclusion, great printer for a great price (BTW... buy.com also sells the printer itself for around $205.).

-- Dale R Dankulich (daled01@mindspring.com), November 14, 1999.

I really like my 750. Pictures from my digicam come out beautiful. However, I'm having a problem with print speed (see my post on 10/26). My 8X10 best-quality prints take over 25 minutes. Anyone else have this problem with a 750?

-- Jon Banzon (j1sauce@aol.com), November 15, 1999.

this printer is quite good, but i have some problems with inks : light ang glass protection affect colours. i'm not sure INKJET PRINTERS are really good in the long time... it'a waste of money. Get your photos to a professionnal for print!! Or if you have money, buy a DP-5000.

-- alj-fx alj-fx (alltheworld@ifrance.com), November 07, 2001.