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Panel changes to offer only relevant buttons; easily fits with network
By Craig Crossman
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Published on Monday, Oct 13, 2008
This is one good-looking printer with everything you could want in a home or small office. For starters, the printer is rated at a brisk 38 pages per minute for text and as fast as 10 seconds for a 4x6 photo print. The maximum resolution is 5760 x 1400 dots-per-inch using six individual ink cartridges with their newest Claria Dye-based Hi-Definition Ink, which is smudge, scratch, water and fade resistant. Epson says these inks are of archival quality with up to 200 years in album storage, lasting up to four times longer than photo-lab prints.
The Artisan 800 is also a flat-bed scanner with an optical resolution of 4800 dpi, acts as a stand-alone flatbed color copier and can handle legal-size documents when using its auto document feeder. Plus it's also a stand-alone color fax machine that can fax multiple pages unattended. It can accommodate a wide variety of flash memory cards typically found in digital cameras. You can select images from these memory cards, edit them in a variety of ways and print them out, all without using a computer.
But I really don't want to get bogged down in specifications here. You can get all of those at the Epson Web site. What I really want to point out is how well the Artisan 800 gets the job done.
This is really a next-generation device that's learned from its predecessors, and it's got a lot of finesse going for it. For example, it's got an eye-candy 8-inch control panel and 3.5-inch LCD screen that displays only the buttons that are applicable to the function at hand at any given moment. It reminds me of those computer touch displays they used on the more-recent Star Trek TV shows. If it's showing only the buttons that can be used at the
moment, it really makes it harder to push the wrong button. That's a really nice touch (pun intended).
Earlier Epson printer models let you print directly to one of those inkjet-printable CD/DVD discs, but you had to snap the disc into a somewhat awkward external tray, which I was always misplacing. With the Artisan 800, you simply insert the disc into a slot, and the printing begins. Nice.
Another really slick ability is that it has networking built in. The Artisan 800 can connect to an existing network via its Ethernet port or its built-in WiFi 802.11n connection, making it compatible with today's fastest WiFi standard. You can have computers sending their print jobs to the Artisan 800 from anywhere on the network.
There's even a duplexer that's optionally available ($29.99) that lets you print on both sides of the same page. Until recently, I've seen duplexers only on laser printers.
This is a printer that's evolved, learning from its predecessors' shortcomings. So while the sleek, black Artisan 800 might look like just another pretty face, it does one heck of a job when printing one out. Check it out at $299.99.
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