Customer Reviews
Epson Artisan 50
This is my first Epson printer. I’ve always owned HP but I was particularly interested in being able to print CD/DVD labels. I’ve owned this printer now for a couple of days and am totally pleased. The directions for getting started were easy, and I was able to begin use immediately. The quality of the labels are excellent, good color, looks professional and it prints quickly. I am not one to usually review products but this one, I found well worth the money, value, and am happy that I made the purchase. The only thing I’d change would be for the software that comes with the CD/DVD printer format, I wish it did more but I find it sufficient. I’d definitely recommend. Does well with documents as well.\
Works fine but noisy
I said I’d never buy another Epson after the problems I had a couple of years ago (print heads clogged on 2 printers, could not repair even with ebay kits). But I needed to print 300 DVDs and the labels just are too cumbersome to use. So I got the printer. It has worked quite well out of the box, I’m on DVD #280 now and printing over the past 3 weeks with no problems.
The printer is very noisy when it starts up, however during printing it is fine. It seems to go a long way on ink – I am just now changing out the regular capacity cartridges the unit came with, with a full size DVD pastel image and printing. I probably could have stretched and done all 300 on the originals but didn’t want to lose any DVD’s due to ink failure.
The DVD slot works well – prints in about 3 minutes (burning my DVD takes 6 so it works out fine). Inserting the DVD slot makes you think you are damaging the unit, but that’s the way it is designed. Seems like a strange procedure to power up the unit – pull out the DVD tray, put slot back on paper, power it up – wait – listen to the awful noises – then when it settles down, put the DVD tray back in position to go. When doing a bunch, you only do this once to get started. This is why I gave it 3* for ease of use.
So bottom line – nice quality, very noisy, but does the job well. We will see if the ink jams up like the earlier Epsons did to me after some time passes. Probably wise to print at least 1 sheet a month to keep things clear if not used for awhile.
The printer is very noisy when it starts up, however during printing it is fine. It seems to go a long way on ink – I am just now changing out the regular capacity cartridges the unit came with, with a full size DVD pastel image and printing. I probably could have stretched and done all 300 on the originals but didn’t want to lose any DVD’s due to ink failure.
The DVD slot works well – prints in about 3 minutes (burning my DVD takes 6 so it works out fine). Inserting the DVD slot makes you think you are damaging the unit, but that’s the way it is designed. Seems like a strange procedure to power up the unit – pull out the DVD tray, put slot back on paper, power it up – wait – listen to the awful noises – then when it settles down, put the DVD tray back in position to go. When doing a bunch, you only do this once to get started. This is why I gave it 3* for ease of use.
So bottom line – nice quality, very noisy, but does the job well. We will see if the ink jams up like the earlier Epsons did to me after some time passes. Probably wise to print at least 1 sheet a month to keep things clear if not used for awhile.
Love it!!!
I bought this printer to replace my dymo discpainter that has been nothing but trouble, and I’m thrilled with the quality of the direct print DVDs. The software isn’t the best, but I can export my designs from my other software as a photo file and the epson print disc software prints it beautifully. I tried photo printing for the first time today and LOVE IT! I love the 5 ink concept – the images are so crisp. I’ve only had the printer for a week now, but so far I’m completely happy with it. The price was great too.
-Edit from 2011-
Printer still works lovely, but I’ve replaced this printer with a new wireless one. My only complaints are the price of ink and an issue where I tried to print black and white (text and a solid black graphic) onto a CD, and the printer refused to let me print because I was out of yellow ink. The software (Epson Print CD) wouldn’t let me choose to print in just black and white to avoid the error message. This was very annoying, and sped up my replacement of the printer rather than the over priced ink. All in all, still love this printer.
Printer still works lovely, but I’ve replaced this printer with a new wireless one. My only complaints are the price of ink and an issue where I tried to print black and white (text and a solid black graphic) onto a CD, and the printer refused to let me print because I was out of yellow ink. The software (Epson Print CD) wouldn’t let me choose to print in just black and white to avoid the error message. This was very annoying, and sped up my replacement of the printer rather than the over priced ink. All in all, still love this printer.
Very impressive printer!
I’ve used Epson printers with my Apple computers since the days of the Apple ][+ and MX80 dot-matrix printer. However, my last Epson (in the late ’90s) didn’t play nicely with my PowerMac running OS9, so I switched over to Canon until I recently had a need to print directly onto CD & DVD media.
I now have the Artisan 50 connected to an iMac G5 running Tiger. I’m using Disc Cover to layout my CD/DVD label designs and I was a little concerned that it wouldn’t support the brand-new Artisan 50. Sure enough, it isn’t listed as a supported printer, but it turns out that selecting “Epson Tray Type 2″ works just fine.
In fact, nearly everything about this printer works as well as, or better than, the Canon Pixma iP4000 I’d been using ’till now. The 6-cartridge system produces stunning printouts on both optical media and photo paper, and it is very fast compared to the old printer. The only thing I miss is the Canon’s automatic duplex printing, but for $99, I’m extremely pleased with the Artisan 50.
Good Quailty – Fast
It prints magazine quality pics – faster than my old Ink Jet. I like the fact that i can replace individual a color and not waist a whole cartridge because i ran out on just one color.
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