| Epson Artisan 700 photo all-in-one printer is to express your style and simplify your life. Producing ultra hi-definition 6-color prints at blazing fast speeds, this amazing all-in-one includes a host of high performance features including two paper trays for plain and photo paper. And, with easy wireless networking, you can print from anywhere in your house. Built with you in mind, the Artisan 700 allows you to easily customize photos, presentations, cards, calendars, and more — all with the touch of a few buttons. And, with direct CD/DVD printing, you can create professional looking discs that are easy to identify. The Artisan 700 even includes auto photo correction, so you get stunning photos every time. Both stylish and elegant, the sleek and compact Artisan 700 includes everything you need to take your creativity to a whole new level. |
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 Exceptional all in one! |
| Review Date: October 14, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Midwest Keiki, Urbana, IL USA |
I ordered this for what seemed to be the perfect mix of features that would be convenient for my family (occasional copying and scanning, printing color output for the kids, and printing photos). The wireless connection feature made it possible to not clutter the family room (already home to a laser printer and desktop).
OK, it's beautiful just sitting there - but it also works like a dream. Setting it up to add it to my secured pre-N network was a breeze. Printing over the wireless network worked fine (even with my printer being 2 rooms away from my router). The output is quick, and the prints on ultra- or premium photo paper are beautiful. The included tray lets you load regular and photo paper (and just select the one you want) for printing.
The unit has a card reader, that lets you print directly from a card. A cool feature is that you can also scan directly to a card as well. For some reason, I thought it could scan across the network, but a call to (very polite) tech support confirmed that this cannot be done. The scanner seems to be a bit slower (in auto mode) than my Epson Perfection 3170, but I haven't compared it systematically.
This is perfect for a home office, and for a family with kids.
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| Review Date: December 12, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Fred, |
Having owned the Epson Artisan 700 Printer long enough to evaluate all of its features I rated it highly at five stars because of the following:
The quality of prints is exceptional when using Epson Premium Photo Papers (I use Gloss Premium) and when using the printers color settings. You may have to drill down into the Artisan 700 printer menus in your "Printers and Faxes" settings to use the Artisan 700 settings to best quality, however it is worth that extra effort.
After making two high quality test prints from the same known good photo while using Premium Gloss photo paper; one print using the Epson 700 ICM Printer settings (Under "Advanced" in your printer menu on the first page), and one print made by using Adobe Photo Shop Elements 6 settings,and comparing both side by side under the same lighting; the Epson Artisan 700 ICM setting is actually slightly better than the Adobe program's default settings which are already very good. Epson has done their homework on this one in terms of photo quality prints.
Printing otherwise: In addition to the above mention, the Artisan 700 produces surprisingly good color prints on Plain Paper of color photos; far superior to the Semi-Professional level Epson R800 Photo Printer that it replaced. And on the default lowest setting of "Plain Paper" it makes excellent copies of text. Printing on CD was also excellent, HOWEVER SEE THE BELOW FOR A TIP ON HOW TO AVOID DAMAGING THE PRINTER IF YOU DO CD PRINTING.
In addition I used all of the printer settings for all of its available functions to evaluate the remainder of the settings for other tasks:
Scanning: Excellent; with some color shifting on some photos scanned that can be corrected in the fine tuning mode which allows you to set the color settings. However the photos used ranged from older to newer ones so this may be subjective.
Photos: I used the USB input on the front and it worked perfectly,have no reason to believe that the other Data Inputs do not work equally well.
Also, as mentioned above, I also used photos from my computer's "My Photos" files and it printed them perfectly directly from the computer files.
However if you are going to purchase this printer you should be aware that it is critical that you follow some rules from the instruction manual carefully to avoid damaging the printer. Failure to do this may be the cause of some of the reported problems that that other users encountered.
CD PRINTING: You must follow the instructions exactly, DO NOT TRY TO FORCE THE PRINTER CD DRAWER OPEN OR CLOSED. It takes the printer time to open and close the CD Drawer and if you try to force it open or closed you can damage it. Wait for the CD Drawer to open and close itself; The mechanism is plastic,it will break if you force it.
THE CONTROL PANEL: DO NOT TRY TO CLOSE THE CONTROL PANEL WITHOUT PRESSING THE "UNLOCK" BAR FIRST AND HOLDING IT WHILE CLOSING THE CONTROL PANEL. Failing to heed this can break the Control Panel.
This is an excellent printer and is far superior to the Semi-Professional Epson R800 Dedicated Photo Printer that I replaced it with, but it is not a printer that you allow your small children or pets to play with. If treated harshly it can break.
Cordially, Fred Tate
P.S. For some reason Amazon,com has listed this review as of December 12, 2008. Uhhhhhhhh......No, Amazon.com, it's actually January 11, 2009 as I write this. Nice automatically correctly dating the review there Amazon.com! However once they see this review the review date might actually change to the correct date.
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| Review Date: October 10, 2008 |
| Reviewer: L. Edwards, Vancouver, WA USA |
| I just got the Epson Artisan 700 delivered to me last night. [...] Even with the free ship I had it in 2 days. So far I love this printer. I have had other Epson printers but this one is by far the bestest. With the help of my hubby via cell phone I was able to install a wireless USB adapter and get the printer running wireless. It has so many great features and comes with very nice software too. I was up till midnight playing around printing photos and testing out the scanning and copying and all. I can't wait to make some very cool projects with it. I highly recommend this printer. I chose the 700 because I don't need a fax and I don't think I would need the auto scan either. |
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| Review Date: November 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: B. Burwell, Port Charlotte, FL |
| Except for my first Okidata dot matrix printers back in the 80's (yes I'm that old), I've only ever owned Epson printers because they are the BEST in terms of print quality, non-smearability, features, speed, and overall quality. I pre-ordered this one back in Aug 2008. Got it as soon as it was out and am equally amazed at this one. Should be called an "Almost All-in-One" since it doesn't have a built-in fax machine. But if you don't need that feature, this printer is perfect. First it's a GORGEOUS shiny black printer out of the box, if you care about that stuff. Makes me sad that we hide ours in a wall unit. I had the printer totally unpacked, setup and ready to use in 15 minutes (including installing the software for wireless). It's laid out perfectly and I love the "Tilt" front panel so you can see it/use it easier (just don't forget to "unlock" it to push it back down. I LOVE the separate paper compartments in one tray for both 8x11 plus 4x6 or 5x7 photo paper. And the built-in print wizard makes printing unusual photos a snap. Since we've only had it a couple of weeks, can't comment on reliability yet. But we've owned 4 Epson printers in the last 18 years or so, and only had a problem with one (screen on our Photo RX600 went black after about 4 months), which Epson immediately shipped us a new, upgraded model (Photo RX620) for free. They didn't wait to receive our old one first. That's great service. Trust me, you won't be disappointed! |
Amazing technology
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| Review Date: December 3, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Reginald Kenneth Dwight, |
| this is the first all in one I have owned. I owned a HP printer a while ago and I can still recall the whole table shaking when I was printing with that. (Ewwww). The Epson Artisan 700 is very quiet while printing. It only takes 1 minute to print a high quality 4 x 6. You can scan old film photos with the 700 and it automatically touches them up with the supplied software CD. I can print digital photos that can rival and beat high quality film prints with this printer. If you want a high quality printer- get a 6 ink cartridge printer. You will pay more with 6 inks- but you can find a ink refiller company in any medium size town where you will only have to pay half price. Alot of people complain about the high cost of printing on this machine- well its true but I would put the blame on the people who print 50 photos per week or more. It is a proven fact that the hi quality printers take the 6 ink cartridges. YOu will be stunned and blown away when the Artison 700 spits out the hi quality photos. Also remember that you can click on the management tabs and determine what quality of photos you want to print.I paid $200 in November 2008 so I would not pay any more than that as prices tend to go down. I will say that you cannot go wrong with this all in one package. Great quality and I am glad I purchased this unit. Go for it ! |
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