Home > Consumer Reviews > Epson Stylus Photo R285 Printer With Individual Ink Cartridges
Epson Stylus Photo R285 Printer With Individual Ink Cartridges
See it at Amazon.co.uk for £99.00Average Customer Rating
(4.0 out of 5)
Amazon Customer Reviews
Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share67 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
Great value printer
(5 out of 5) by A. Saunders on May 26, 2008 (Surrey, England)I purchased this printer because I had a HP all-in-one and the print quality was simply not good enough for printing photos.
The print quality of the Epson R285 is excellent. I printed a family photo for my Nan and she couldn't believe it wasn't a professional print.
It is true that the first set of ink cartridges you use run out fairly quickly but it does tell you this in the paperwork that comes with the printer. The replacement ink cartridges do not run out as quickly.
The fact it also prints on to CDs/DVDs is an added bonus. The software that comes with this makes it very easy to achieve.
All-in-all, I think this is a great printer and it is very affordable as well.
The print quality of the Epson R285 is excellent. I printed a family photo for my Nan and she couldn't believe it wasn't a professional print.
It is true that the first set of ink cartridges you use run out fairly quickly but it does tell you this in the paperwork that comes with the printer. The replacement ink cartridges do not run out as quickly.
The fact it also prints on to CDs/DVDs is an added bonus. The software that comes with this makes it very easy to achieve.
All-in-all, I think this is a great printer and it is very affordable as well.
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
EPSON R285
(4 out of 5) by Mr. Andrew Robert Burdett on Mar 21, 2008 (uk)OK, this printer has been much maligned. The print quality is outstanding but here's some things to bear in mind:
1. It drinks ink with quite some appetite
2. The head cleaning did not work at first - I resorted to forcing 2cc of Tesco window cleaning fluid down the print spike using a syringe and plastic tube. That sorted it and it's been fine since.
Even the prices of non-Epson cartridges are expensive. I have decided on a continuous ink system and this is an easy-install. Far more economical, and you get to see just how much this printer drinks the ink.
When the printer says 'Need more ink' you pop the 'cartridges' out off their electrical contacts and then pop them back in again - hey presto it's full.
If you're looking for excellent, cheap prints this combination is unbeatable. If you use cartridges, perhaps look elsewhere.
1. It drinks ink with quite some appetite
2. The head cleaning did not work at first - I resorted to forcing 2cc of Tesco window cleaning fluid down the print spike using a syringe and plastic tube. That sorted it and it's been fine since.
Even the prices of non-Epson cartridges are expensive. I have decided on a continuous ink system and this is an easy-install. Far more economical, and you get to see just how much this printer drinks the ink.
When the printer says 'Need more ink' you pop the 'cartridges' out off their electrical contacts and then pop them back in again - hey presto it's full.
If you're looking for excellent, cheap prints this combination is unbeatable. If you use cartridges, perhaps look elsewhere.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Epson R285
(4 out of 5) by Mr. M. Ryan on May 1, 2008I purchased my Epson R285 after my R200 got a little tired. Compared with the R200 the print quality is far superior, even with compatable catridges, you must make sure that if your machine was manufactured after April 2007, you must use the latest chipped cartridges.Also bear in mind the genuine cartridges supplied with printers are not full ones. Downside? the Epson print CD software supplied would not load so I used the old R200 disc, no more problems.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
really good printer for this price bracket
(4 out of 5) by L. Niblock on Jul 24, 2008 (Belfast)There are a few bad reviews here, but I think these people might have been the victims of sellers selling bad stock. I have had no trouble whatsoever from this printer, which produces great prints and is extremely easy to get going once out of the box. My previous printer, however, gave me nothing but trouble because I had bought it from an external seller with a feedback rating in the 80s. They were in Germany and the whole process of shipping it back to them, only to be sent another one that didn't work either meant that three months later I am still trying to sort that situation out. This one, however, came straight from a seller with 100 percent rating, and has been great, and is great value for money. Haven't come across the ink-guzzling problem yet, however, but I think another seller has suggested a good solution for those who need to produce a lot of prints.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Epson 285 - no problem
(4 out of 5) by A. ALLISON on Mar 12, 2008 (E Sussex)Bought this printer for my daughter from Park Cameras, and she has had no problems at all. I installed the drivers directly from Epson's website, and in no time at all, we were printing bright punchy photos, [and that was using an IMac with Leopard 10.5 installed which seems to have caused no end of trouble with Epson printers, and profiles].