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Epson Stylus Photo RX580 All-In-One Printer (30 PPM, 5760x1440 DPI, Color, PC/Mac)

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  • Prints directly onto CDs
  • Disappointing print quality
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  • Archives to USB devices
  • Slow print speeds

User Reviews for Epson Stylus Photo RX580 All-In-One Printer (30 PPM, 5760x1440 DPI, Color, PC/Mac)

  • Reviewed by: jthaynes06

    Duration of ownership: 7 Months

    Strengths: none

    Weaknesses: Everything (Low quality printing, expensive ink, poor functionality, nozzle cleaning every single day)

    Overall Evaluation: Worst printer I've ever owned, does not live up to the epson quality. The most I print is 3 times a month and the ink has to be replaced every 2 months. 6 ink cartridges times $18.00 is not cheap. If just one ink cartridge is out will not allow you to print or clean nozzle. I should have stuck to a cheaper brand.

  • Reviewed by: normans96

    Duration of ownership: 14 Months

    Strengths: none

    Weaknesses: print quality, you have to do a nozzle clean before printing pictures.

    Overall Evaluation: The cd, dvd copy went out in mine two weeks ago and I have had little to no help from Epson to resolve this problem.

  • Reviewed by: 123xyz

    Duration of ownership: 4 Months

    Strengths: Affordable all in one printer. Can get 6pk ink at BJs for about $70.

    Weaknesses: If even one cartridge is out of ink all functions cease. You can't use the scanner and you can't view pictures from your camera card. Also if one color cartidge is out of ink you can't even print in black. This uses alot of ink. Needed to scan a document to my pc to email for business, but with no ink there is no function.

    Overall Evaluation: If you keep extra ink cartridges around, then this printer is fine. You always need to have a backup or nothing works. Don't get an extended warranty plan if your store provides it....not worth it. When this one dies, I will get an HP. It functions without ink.

  • Reviewed by: astromonsterrr

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Has a scanner

    Weaknesses: Low quality printing, expensive ink, poor functionality

    Overall Evaluation: This is the worst printer I've ever owned. It's so bad that while I've never reviewed a product online in my life, I specifically looked for a website I could review it on to warn others about it.The print quality is inexcusably bad. If you don't print a couple of pages daily, you have to clean the printer head after every use. Even if you do print a couple of documents a day, it'll at least screw up the last few. It's worked like that since day one.For such low quality, the inks are unjustifiably expensive. And if one color runs out, even if it's just like Light Magenta, you can't print anything until you replace it. Even if you aren't using that color, or only care about legibility, you're just done. It's put me in a bind plenty of times.I guess the scanner works fine, but I'd prefer my printer to function best in, you know, printing. I wish I still had my $20 Canon.

  • Reviewed by: ryuhas

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: Few. It's small and combines a lot of functionality.

    Weaknesses: It doesn't seem to do anything well. The colors do not appear balanced.

    Overall Evaluation: I've compared photo prints that I've done on other printers and this one often shows black as brown and has a rather murky quality to it. If you are a photographer, you're not going to like this one. Eventually, this one developed a streak about a quarter down the page that distorted the text from left to right. There is no fix for it that I can find in any help file. Ink has been hard to find, and expensive, since I bought this printer. It goes through cartridges like Kleenex.

  • Reviewed by: melodiccadenza

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: I originally purchased this printer because I had seen a lot of nice things done with it. It supports a variety of papers and it\\\\\\\'s 6 tone colors give prints a wonderful quality.

    Weaknesses: If your printer does not work properly, be prepared for a hellish customer service experience. Their online help guide did not solve my problems, nor did e-mail. No weekend hours for phone support.

    Overall Evaluation: I purchased a refurbished all-in-one printer from Epson. (Silly me, I thought it was safer buying it from Epson\\\\\\\'s website.) The first printer installed okay, but all it\\\\\\\'s actions were very, very slow and it could not print text documents without large gaps in the text. Oddly enough, it printed photos very slowly, but well.Their online support was not helpful and when I attempted to contact via e-mail, I got a standard response that listed the same steps from their webpage. It was like no one had even bothered to read my e-mail! I had to wait several day to call by phone because their hours are from 6am-6pm pacific time. Monday-Friday only, no hours on the weekend. When I called, I was able to by-pass the phonetech\\\\\\\'s attempts to make me to all of it again (nozzle check, head cleaning, exc.) and set up a new printer to be sent to me.I just received the new printer, but this one does not scan correctly. Again, the website and their user guides are no help to me. I will have to wait until the weekdays to call and begin the whole process again.I highly doubt I\\\\\\\'ll be buying Epson anything in the future. I don\\\\\\\'t think it is too much to ask that a product works when I take it out of the box.

  • Reviewed by: keyonman

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: works with Windows Vista 64 bit. Prints nice pictures. Scanner works as copier without computer. The CD/DVD print feature is really nice.

    Weaknesses: Uses ink like crazy. No cable included in the package.

    Overall Evaluation: I bought this all-in-one printer so that I can use the scanner and the CD/DVD cover feature on a windows 64 bit machine. So far so good but I wish that it doesn't use ink as much. The good thing is you can use generic/off brand ink on this printer unlike the newer Epson printers.

  • Reviewed by: SILBER21

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: All In One / Ultra Hi-Definition / Prints CD/DVD

    Weaknesses: n/a for the price / pricey ink (as always) OEM

    Overall Evaluation: Really nice All In One machine - photo prints are very nice for a low priced printer - it is compact and has a small footprint - small color LCD is a nice touch as well - have not tried CD print feature, but the capability of it adds to AIO features - I would not call this AIO the best - but for the cost of this machine it might beat the rest of AIO - serves as described - recommend!

What You Should Know about the Stylus Photo RX580 All-In-One Printer (30 PPM, 5760x1440 DPI, Color, PC/Mac)

If You Use a Sony Camera, Print Right From Its Memory Stick

This printer can read and write to Sony's proprietary flash memory devices called Memory Sticks, and with an adapter, could also support variants such as Memory Stick Pro, Duo, Pro Duo, and Micro. Few non-Sony devices use Memory Sticks, however, the company is so large that there's still a good chance you might need to read data from one someday.

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