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I've had my Epson 2200 for about six weeks. With free shipping Amazon's price was best on the net. Looked at Canon's and Epson's lower end models. I thought the Epson outperformed the Canon tonally. Have done about 45 8x10 glossies with medium grade Epson paper. Not disappointed in the output. Two pics were banded and short colored. Did a basic head cleaning and that corrected the problem. The light toned inks are used at slightly more than twice the rate of the dark tones. Am just now looking for a replacement for light magenta cartridge. I figure amortized cost per pic is about 1.25 per print with ink paper and printer costs combined. If you demand quality output for your pics with a fairly low volumne output, this is a hard printer to beat right now. If you're not too concerned about darker toning and flatter colors you can probably get by with something half as pricey. I'm delighted with mine.

I researched tons of color inkjet printers before deciding upon the Epson Stylus Photo 2200. I use it exclusively for my personalized prints business so both photo and text quality was must with no room for compromises. In the 4 months that I have owned this printer I have nothing but praise. No paper jams, high quality prints with little if any recognizable dithering/dots in photos, great value priced printer, also saved tons on inks with 7 seperate ink containers that can be replaced individually. This is a semi-pro printer instead of traditional consumer grade printers. Even so, I didn't really have to fiddle with anything, it worked and printed quality prints right out of the box. Yet it still has extensive setting controls to tweak prints and I had to only use it once or twice to reduce the Cyan level in advanced settings page to -10 to get as the printer rendered/printed portions of the white in the photo with a slightly greenish tint. Aside from that minor problem that was isolated and easily resolved, everything else about this printer is absolutely wonderful!

received this printer only to have two faulty ink cartilages (still being cleared by epson). bought a pair and started printing sample papers from all over (red river polar gloss has equal output quality verus epson's premium luster paper).
At around 1200 dpi the test images are excellent with great satutation and contrast (at default settings) baby skin came out near perfect to the monitor. metalics are not grainy and the the multi color thread spool are rich and detailed. gradients dare i say are comparable to traditional photo-prints.
Printing is on the slow side when compared to other ink-jet printers. other then the oddly relaxing whishing sound its makes very little noise. heavy foot print on the desk. heavy with nice rugged construction (metal bracings).
was reviewed by lou (industrial designer) and joy (photograper)