Customer Reviews

Epson Stylus Photo 1400 Color Printer

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We purchased this printer for my wife, who is an avid scrap booker. We were replacing an older Epson wide carriage printer which had died after a troubled existence. I was concerned how this printer would work, but after reading reviews on HP wide carriage printers, decided to relent and order this unit.

After about a month of fairly regular use, my concerns have been put to rest. The printer uses several independent cartridges so you can replace individual colors of inks if they start to run out. (the replaced printer only had two cartridges, and they were obnoxious, tending to dry out and provide streaky prints). This printer generates excellent prints, very lifelike, with good color balance and detail. For wide carriage use, it is excellent for printing on large format scrapbook paper, with no smearing or other issues. Paper path is excellent, straight through, so no problems with jamming.

Only quirk we've noticed to date is that it does not print transparencies. (One technique now in vogue is to print your text on a transparency and then place it over a colored background). Not sure why this can't be done, but the manual says don't do it. Probably not an issue for the 99% of the world that doesn't do this.

Overall it's a very good printer, big improvement over what we had before. The wife is using it for all of her printing, where before she had used a networked HP inkjet all in one photo printer for her photos. We'll see over time how it holds up, but one month in we're not having any difficulties and it's doing a great job. Real reasonable, especially given the prices of some of the other competitors in the market.

You can't beat the price and value of this printer, you can use it for screen printing, dye sublimation, regular printing, and much more. Being able to print on 13" wide paper is great for projects, presentations, screen printing, dye sublimation, etc. Great value, great deal.

The current Epson Stylus Photo 1400 is my 2nd. The first had a problem where after a few prints, paper would run through the printer without any printed image. The printer just feed paper through. I called Epson help desk, we reinstalled the drivers, did all of the trouble shooting and were unable to have the printer do its job. Epson had me return the printer and forwarded me a new Photo 1400. I only use this printer for color photos and therefor don't print out alot of images. Today,with my 2nd 1400, the same problem as described above occurred. After all of the trouble shooting, downloading drivers, and available support, our attempts for proper function were fruitless. Since this Photo 1400 was post warranty, I disposed of the printer and am in the process of purchasing another brand. I can not recommend this printer, rate the printed images as excellent when it printed. I had always been a fan of Epson, but find that it's time to try something else

Granted, the Epson 1400 makes nice prints, it is a rare occurrence for me. After hours of head cleaning, test printing, running copies that appear w banding the Utility finally demands a replacement cartridge. I had 4 cartridges that were at various levels of low. To save time I could've just replaced them all but the Utility was telling me I could make 70 more similar copies. Even after replacing 4 cartridges, head cleaning and test printing, I STILL got banding on my prints. This is what always happens when i go to print a color heavy image -usually something I want an immaculate print for. And there end being little spatters after repeated headcleaning. I could give another head cleaning but I hate to waste ink I just loaded so i accept inferior copies. Right now I'm so annoyed I'm wasting more time posting my experience in reviews so people are prepared to have a wrestling match to get one, clean printout.
Epson Stylus Photo Printer - R1400 (C11C655001)

Gracias por tu venta, la impresora es muy buena doble carta y se le puede instalar Kit de Inyeccion continua. Ademas que imprime discos y la calidad es muy buena.