Turn on the Jets - Epson's Stylus Photo 820 is Great for Beginners Fayetteville AR

Posted by : Joe Farace

The Stylus Photo 820 is Epson's latest weapon in the battle for low-cost, high-quality photorealistic inkjet printers. It's compact and lightweight, but can print 2,880-by-720dpi output on Epson Photo Paper and 1,440-by-720dpi on specialty papers. Yes, it's slightly noisier than the near-silent Stylus Photo 1280, but not annoyingly so. That's probably due to the less substantial materials used in this less expensive printer.

Setup is a snap, and newbies are helped by a poster showing how to place the paper holder, insert inkjet cartridges, and plug in the power cord. My first print looked great, but was a little dark until I remembered to change the Print Space Profile in Adobe Photoshop's driver. Then the results were superb. Image quality is aided by a four picoliter droplet size that, combined with Epson's variable droplet technology lays down larger droplets in solid areas and four-picoliter drops for fine details and highlights.

The Stylus Photo 820 is a true six-color printer. Some printers use pigment-based inks in their black ink cartridge and dye inks in their CMY or CMYcm color cartridges. Epson uses dye-based inks for all their photo printers, except the Stylus Photo 2000P which uses pigmented inks for archival reasons. Dye and pigmented inks can be combined on plain paper, but when printing on photo paper, these printers turn off the black ink and become three or five color models, not the four or six you might expect.

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