 The
Epson
Stylus C82 is a four-color printer using Epson’s DuraBright
Ink Technology. The four colors used are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and
Black and have individual ink tanks. The reason for purchasing this
printer was the low price for a printer of this quality. The retail
price for this printer is $129 (April 2003) but you can get lower
prices online or take advantage of in store sales. I paid less due
to having a discount
coupon for a local retailer.
From the
initial setup with the included software CD, the C82 has performed
well with my Mac. The image quality is exceptional for a four-color
printer and the text is adequate. Being a graphic designer, I do like
quality text output as well as image quality. I have been quite impressed
with the photo image quality also. The colors tend to have a slight
magenta cast to them but it may be that my color calibration is not
quite on par yet. I am working on that. [Editor's
note: if you have Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you won't need to run the
installer CD-ROM. Just plug it in and connect the USB cable to your
Mac. It will recognize it and run the built-in Epson C82 driver. Also
note that few (if any) inkjet printers come with USB cables. You will
need to buy a USB printer cable when you buy this printer.]
The Epson Stylus C82 uses a drop on demand Micro Piezo ink jet technology
and is optimized for plain paper desktop color printing at 5760
x 1440 optimized dpi on various paper qualities. The DuraBrite
ink is water resistant on all media including plain paper and
is light resistant to fading up to 80 years on various papers.
The light resistance depends on proper framing of the image.
The
reason for purchasing this particular printer was the inclusion
of four individual ink tanks on this printer. I never liked the
idea of running out of one color in the other ink tanks and wasting
the
colors that were left. I have not replaced the original ink tanks
and have had this printer since October, 2002. 
As far as problems or irregularities, I have encountered none with
this printer. It seems to be an excellent desktop printer.
Overall, for excellent photo printing and day-to-day use, this printer
does it all.
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