Excellent printer

This is a brilliant printer, with a sleek design, fast print speed and Excellent photo quality (you will be amazed!). Although the wireless set-up wasn't a doddle I got there in the end, but dont be put off by it though. The actual set-up out of the box was so simple and straight forward. If you're in the market for a photo printer you will be chuffed you got this one, I'm still smiling after a month!

For the price, excellent!

Really pleased with this printer. So much better than I thought it would be. Good quality for the price. Easy to install and easy to use. The only down side is that it is a little noisy (and like most printers nowadays, please note, doesn't come with a usb lead). Recommend.

Good quality and easy to set up

I had an old HP printer which was not fully compatible with Vista. I decided to buy a new one and after review of printers available considered HP Photosmart C4680 seemed like the best value for money for a home user. I have not been disappointed with the choice, it was easy to set up and provides good quality prints in both black and white and colour.

Great for the price

This printer is actually very good. It's ideal for the home/office. I looked at a lot of printers before settling on this one, after my cheap, tiered Lexmark gave up. It suits the needs of the average, all round users very well. My use is personal printing and scanning documents for business.

The scanner is actually surprisingly fast and produces good quality. I've scanned in pictures and copies of invoices for electronic records. It handles both just fine.

The document feeder is particularly handy for taking quick copies of documents. Perfect for me if I need to quickly reproduce a copy of an invoice.

Separate colour cartridges is also nice as you don't have to replace the lot if you've only used the black etc.

I've printed text documents and text & picture documents and have been happy with the results. Many of the documents I need to print include a logo and sometimes heavily formatted text. Chucking out flyers also works well.

I've no intention of using the fax, but it's a nice choice to have I suppose.

Great Value for Money Printer

Very good value for this great printer. I use it for printing simple documents, and it's all thats needed. If you are wanting to print photos however, I think investing a bit more might be required.

Pros: Compact, Cheap, Cheap Ink, Good Quality Printouts
Cons: No USB cable provided

What an excellent product

I was very surprised when I received this product from amazon so easy to install.
Everything I have prchased from amazon is very good quality.

It does everything I want it to do

I've had my Epson P50 for about five weeks now, and use it most days. Unfortunately, I had a backlog of printing jobs so, in that five weeks, I've used four cartridges of black ink. I have to say I found the Printer easy to set up, and equally easy to use. In a nutshell, it does everything I want it to do; and I don't regret my purchase.

Good fast printer

A winner, fast and good quality output.
Print head alignment is quite involved compared to some other makes but only has to be done when you install the print heads for the first time or when you renew them.. not when you replace the ink cartridges.

Excellent replacement for my old i350

Bought as a replacement for my old Canon i350. Just as simple to use but more stylish, faster and quieter. For the price the print quality is good. I also liked the software, as well as the photo editing you can create calenders and albums. Only had it a few months so cannot comment on reliability but so far no problems.

another flawed HP

Easy to set up and connects easily to my network wirelesly. Print quality so far is good for everyday use; although it's not a true photo printer it makes a passable effort at photos. If you do mainly photos you will want to look elsewhere

HOWEVER (and this applies to my HP 8500 as well) it suffers from the now notorious"letter size default" and"paper out" problems, which may be related. There is no way to store permanently a default page size of A4, it keeeps dropping back to letter. Frequent"load paper" messages need to be sorted by pressing the"continue/OK" button on the unit, even though the paper tray is full.

A3 printer

the printer arrived very promptly and setting up not problem, I produced a print much quicker than my last machine, a bit noisy but for the money I reckon a very good buy. A3 prints to edge and all other sizes, very easy to adjust to size, easy also to install cartridges which is important..

Another Epson wonder!

There are very few reviews on this printer out there at the moment. Having owned one for around 3 weeks and I have to say I am very pleased with the printer.

A number of points need to be made:

1/ This printer is large - especially when the paper guides are open. If you have a small computer desk - this will fill it! If you want an A3+ printer you much resign yourself to the fact it won't be small.

2/ The box says up to 33 pages a minute - this is in draft mode, print is not to bad, but recommend normal text, a 30 page black and white document takes around 1:30 mins - which is not bad. Colour printing slows the machine down a great deal, although the results look very good. Photo printing really slows the B1100 down, 10x15mm takes 70 odd seconds, and an A3 print on best settings takes a staggering 12 mins. Although the wait is worth every moment. Crisp and clear, colours are true to life. Comparing other printers they all seem to take their time to produce a good top quality print so don't let this 'slowness' put you off. The printer is quite noisy when picking up the paper, but it is reasonably quiet whilst printing.

3/ Having owned other brands printers, I cannot understand why I moved away from Epson in the first place. People complain about the price of the ink for Epson printers - I can tell you - you get a very good deal compared with other leading manufacturers. The 2 black cartridges contain 11.1ml each and you can pick them up for around £15 if you hunt for them. Colours are also 11.1ml and you can buy a multi-pack just short of £30. Some other manufacturers give you 3ml for cyan, 7 for yellow and charge you the same price. The first cartridges supplied with the printer are full - not the usual half full supplied with most. A lot of ink is used to prime the print head, the second and subsequent replacements will last much longer.

The B1100 is an absolute steal at the price - less than £150. You get a machine that is bomb proof, its built to last. Other A3+ printers in this price range tend to have a separate black, with a tri-colour cartridge - this printer has separate ones for each colour. It may be an office machine but its still and Epson Stylus printer, which means its got what it takes to blow you away with the quality of the print - especially photographs. Don't let the speed put you off either - many other printers higher up the price range are not much faster when printing photos! Well done Epson - another cracking printer.

Easy start up and go.

I have just taken delivery of this printer, to replace a very much loved HP 990cxi. I opened it, plugged it in, followed the instructions and was set up and running with no hiccups. Have just printed some photographs and am very pleased with the quality. Did a couple of documents (which is what I really want it for) and set the draft, double sided print and perfect. So very pleased.

However, the ethernet cable was not in the box and a little frustrated at not having a USB cable included, but luckily I had a spare one.

Excellent value for money

This Lexmark printer was so easy to set-uo arround 10mins straight from the box and the idiot guide just was so easy to follow.The printing rersults are excellent and makes a hugh difference now it's wi-fi.Excellent valie for money and replaced my old Lexmark.

Brilliant machine!

Having used different printers this is the best it has settings for draft prints, great for saving ink!!! Cartridges are easily available unlike kodak!!! Very reliable and can be connected to wi-fi router enabling all computers to access it in the home!!

Almost perfect

I have only had it for a short time but already sold on its performance. The sharpness and colours are great, even when viewed through a magnifying glass my photographs are impressive! My only suggestion is that it would have been perfect if it had a second 26 ml black ink cartridge for document printing. As it is there is only one black cartridge of 13 ml, consequently I shall be keeping my old A4 Canon printer for B&W documents.

I bought Brother Printer

I received on time and the product is very good. Unfortunatly it turned out to be not what I wanted. So now I have a big elephant in the room. The product is good, it does well what is set to do, but unfortunatly is not what I wanted. When I asked to replace for me they turned down.

Good Printer but bad paper catcher...

I got this prointer as I have stared studying and I think it was execllent value for what I paid. It prints out at a good rate and has good features like mulitple pages per sheet to save on paper and ink. I have mainly done black an white printing so far but have been happy with the results. Nice clear quality and ink doesn't smudge.

My only gripe is that when the paper comes out the"catcher" thing doesn't hold it very well. My printer sits on top of bookshelves and by the time I get through to get the output I usually find it is all over the floor, under the sofabed, etc etc...

Really not good enough.

Out of the box, this printer does not produce even remotely good prints. Working with XP, Lightroom and Ps-CS4 the prints come out looking almost black and white with a bit of colour here and there. The ICC profiles don't work properly - you have to DIY (btw: these are Epson profiles and Epson paper). With time and patience to mess with drivers and settings, spending a fortune on ink and paper for proofs and expensive colour management hardware, you will eventually get it right but the problem is you shouldn't have to. For a printer this expensive running on a standard OS with industry leading software (Adobe) this setup should basically work out of the box.

Beware - ink cartridges very hard to come by in the UK!!

I bought this printer about 6 months ago and have no gripes about quality or speed, this printer is excellent. My one problem with this printer, and it is a huge problem for me as I need to be able to use my printer at all times, is that you simply cannot find the cartridges for this printer in any high street stores in the UK. They do not stock them. You have to either order the cartridges (this is sometimes impossible as Canon often run out and cannot supply retailers) from the store, or order them online and pay for delivery. It's very annoying and Canon claim they have no control over which inks retailers stock. So, be warned; fantastic printer, but you may be unable to find the cartridges for it.