Affordable wide-format photo printer
Strengths: Price; Wide-format printing; Clear and crispy colors; Individual ink cartridges.
Weaknesses: Slow printing. Color gets a bit dark on low quality papers.
Summary: 2008-09-27 23:26:50 I purchased this printer to print out large size posters (13 by 11). There were only a couple of wide-format printers under $300 when I was on the market (I later found out that HP launched a new wide-format printer B8550 with LCD and card readers at $300). I preferred this Epson 1400 to HP B8350 because it has higher DPI and individual ink cartridges. Printing out tens of photos and posters, I have been somewhat satisfied with it but have a couple of concerns. First of all, when I printed on 4- or 3-star papers such as premium photo papers and photo papers, results tend to be a bit dark. Printing on 5-star papers such as ultra premium photo or luster papers gives perfect outcome. Besides, printing speed is really slow even when printing out black/white low-resolution documents. In sum, it is good for thouse who are looking for sub-$300 wide format photo printers, but not good for heavy users or document printing.

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