785EPX

My Epson 780 decided it would quit feeding pages so I need to replace. Speed would be nice, but quality is more important. I have a bunch of ink for the 780 so would like to stay with something compatible with the cartridge. The 785epx looks good, any advice?
Thanks in advance

Ray LaCour said:

My Epson 780 decided it would quit feeding pages so I need to
replace. Speed would be nice, but quality is more important. I
have a bunch of ink for the 780 so would like to stay with
something compatible with the cartridge. The 785epx looks good,
any advice?
Thanks in advance

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It's a great printer. I've had mine since early february of this year. Photo quality is superb. A little on the slow side, but I digress. It uses the T008 and T007 ink carts.

I sell prints from it, regularly, to friends, and in the local Deck the Walls art stores. Have had a few, correctable, head clogs, but printed 50 in a row without trouble, recently.

14 minutes for an 8X12 at 1440 dpi, hi-speed off. About 24 8X12 prints per color cart and 4 times that per black cart. Total cost per 8X12 is about $1.00 for ink.

Buy your carts at Epson. Lowest price and free (or almost free these days) shipping. I never use generic carts, so can't say about those.

Ray LaCour said:

My Epson 780 decided it would quit feeding pages so I need to
replace. Speed would be nice, but quality is more important. I
have a bunch of ink for the 780 so would like to stay with
something compatible with the cartridge. The 785epx looks good,
any advice?
Thanks in advance

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Thanks Bogie for the info. I use ink4art cartridges. The color is wonderful. Cost is less than 1/2. Try them.
Ray

Bogie said:

14 minutes for an 8X12 at 1440 dpi, hi-speed off. About 24 8X12
prints per color cart and 4 times that per black cart. Total cost
per 8X12 is about $1.00 for ink.

Buy your carts at Epson. Lowest price and free (or almost free
these days) shipping. I never use generic carts, so can't say
about those.

Ray LaCour said:

My Epson 780 decided it would quit feeding pages so I need to
replace. Speed would be nice, but quality is more important. I
have a bunch of ink for the 780 so would like to stay with
something compatible with the cartridge. The 785epx looks good,
any advice?
Thanks in advance

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--
Sometimes it's better to have loved and lost, than to have loved
and won.

'Scenic Virginia Photography'
My Galleries: http://svphoto.home.attbi.com

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I don't own a 785EPX, but I have used one several times. The prints look pretty good, but it is one of the slowest photo printers out there right now. The ink cost isn't particularly good either since you're not going to get too many photos per cartridge...but since you already have a bunch of the T007 and T008 cartridges this may not matter to you. You might want to look at the much newer 825 which I think is pretty much replacing the 785EPX...it uses the same cartridges too.

Thus, you already know what the speed and output quality will be.

I believe the 890 also uses the same ink carts and is a bit faster with similar output quality.

I've been happy with my 785, but I'm not in a hurry when I print.

--Ira

Ray LaCour said:

My Epson 780 decided it would quit feeding pages so I need to
replace. Speed would be nice, but quality is more important. I
have a bunch of ink for the 780 so would like to stay with
something compatible with the cartridge. The 785epx looks good,
any advice?
Thanks in advance

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there are no guarantees I will get the colorfastness or durability of the Epson inks, all 'promises' notwithstanding. I don't mind the cost of the Epson inks, since I know what I'm giving my customers. Using 3rd party inks would only save me 50 cents per print. Not worth the risk that they may fade in a year or so.

Just my two cents.

Ray LaCour said:

Thanks Bogie for the info. I use ink4art cartridges. The color is
wonderful. Cost is less than 1/2. Try them.
Ray

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hi ray,

my 780 also recently died, leaving me holding a bunch of genuine T007/T008 ink carts. i shopped and compared the epson, canon and HP printers and ultimately decided on the epson 825 from costco for $159 mainly because it uses the same ink carts and i really like epson heavyweight matte and premium glossy papers. image quality is nearly identical to my old 780...it is slightly quieter and seems a wee tad faster...most importantly for me, i don't have to look at that funky blue cover anymore ;-)

-norm

Ray LaCour said:

My Epson 780 decided it would quit feeding pages so I need to
replace. Speed would be nice, but quality is more important. I
have a bunch of ink for the 780 so would like to stay with
something compatible with the cartridge. The 785epx looks good,
any advice?
Thanks in advance

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just wondering what paper you use for your 'for sale' prints.

I love Pictorico Gallery Glossy Paper ( http://www.pictorico.com ). Almost waterproof (they claim 30 seconds under running water with no damage) and nice gloss finish. Passes the wet thumb test, but haven't tried the 'spit' test yet. Great durability for my business cards, too. I print with the 'photo paper' setting on my Epson 785, saved using sRGB ICC from Photoshop, printed using no printer ICC in Qimage, Epson drive settings of: 'color correction', with no adjustments, gamma 2.2, 'auto'.

For one customer, I print on Epson Archival Matte. I just happen to have a pack of it I bought for testing, so I'm using it for one guy whose photos I print for him to sell.

21farms said:

just wondering what paper you use for your 'for sale' prints.

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The Pictorico Gallery Glossy paper passes the spit test (someone looking at a print says "Wow" and spits on it by accident). No damage to the print. Epson Premium Glossy and Compusa Glossy paper are ruined immediately in this test.

Bogie said:

For one customer, I print on Epson Archival Matte. I just happen
to have a pack of it I bought for testing, so I'm using it for one
guy whose photos I print for him to sell.

21farms said:

just wondering what paper you use for your 'for sale' prints.

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Sometimes it's better to have loved and lost, than to have loved
and won.

'Scenic Virginia Photography'
My Galleries: http://svphoto.home.attbi.com

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Sometimes it's better to have loved and lost, than to have loved and won.

'Scenic Virginia Photography'
My Galleries: http://svphoto.home.attbi.com