Almost every time I use it I have to clean the print heads and nozzles to avoid streaks. Now that the R1800 has some years behind it, the wear and tear is beginning to show. In the beginning it provided amazing print quality at a level that was sometimes better than the local print shops, which would completely gouge me for the same work. On occasion, though, I'll press it to do some heavy lifting on holiday cards and such - no more than two or three times a year. Since then, it's become strictly a proofing machine since I'm no longer producing class projects on a regular basis (thankfully).
I picked up this monster back in '06, and leaned on it pretty hard for a good three years. As you might imagine, anything under Super B / A3 sizing is fair game, with printing all the way to the edge there as well. Like many printers these days, it can also print directly onto CDs so long as you can spare a solid 12 hours of drying time. In order to cut production costs in grad school, I invested $500 in the Epson Stylus Photo R1800, which is capable of borderless prints and can print 13 inches wide by however long I'd like, thanks to paper roll attachments. But, when you're proofing a 40-page style guide for a client, you tend to want easy access to the outputs. Sure, not everyone has a need for a 13 x 19 photo printer. And, on a slightly more nostalgic note, Billy delivers a eulogy of sorts for the Epson photo printer that got him through years of graphic design school. This week we've got Darren learning a little Spanish through Babbel and Jon, the man of many Canadian phones, testing the Lumia 920 on Rogers' LTE network.
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