Capt_Caveman

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Uses a smaller sized ink cartridge, so you end up replacing them more often. However, they're about 1/2 the price of normal ink cartridges, so you break even in the end.

ziggamon

Haven't gotten it to print in high-speed mode like in windows with the original drivers, works fine otherwise.

quartertone

USB printing works great.
No problems setting using redhat-config-printer. Printer driver to select is gimp-print (which gets automagically selected if you set the printer type to Epson -> Stylus C82), but appears listed as "omni-complied" once setup is completed.

Use "escputil" (part of gimp-print) to maintain the printer. (man for more info)

mr666white

What can i say but a complete dream.

Intallation: Silly Graphicilal tools (Fedora, mandrake) are so easy my gran could do it. Gentoo, well as easy as gentoo gets, using the gimp print drivers and the cups web interface is really easy. Foomatic also handy.

I got this printer 2 years ago when my HP695C died a horrible death. I thought that it was worth the GB £99 then for the following reasons:

It has a seporate printhead, which as is not included with the ink cartrages, and is designed to last the lifetime of the printer, will not (and has not) die in a hurry (I reference the HP cartrages which mever seem to last as long as the ink before become horribly clogged).

The price per volume of ink is very low compaired with cheaper printers

Seporate colour cartrigaes. A bonus if you always run out of magenta before cyan and yellow

Claims to be capable of silly speeds.

Since i've had the printer i've never failed to be impressed with it. The only issue i've had with it is prints on ilford clossy photo paper tend to be a bit too red. This is easily solved by turing down the magenta level in the printer driver section.

The mtink utility is a must have, and is vastly superior to the epson/windows monitoring utility. It's fast, no frills, and deos everything you want it to.

B&W text is impressively sharp, even in £1 /ream cheapass paper, Colour charts and tables can look a bit naff if printed at standard quality, but bump the quality up a notch and it's pretty impressive.

Photo Printing is pretty slow at full quality, but well worth the wait. I have a wall full of photos i've printed off, and despite being on my walls for 2 years, even the oldest ones show no sign of fadeing. I couldn't say what direct sunlight does to them though, it's not somehting my room sees a lot of!

Over 2 years I've used 21 black cartrages and 7 sets of colour cartrages, and by my calulations, it has performed at under 3p / sheet of b&w text (including cheapass paper). And even at such high usage it's still working as well now as whren i got it.

Why the high usage?

Well I share my house with 4 students, all of whom got printers of dubious quality thrown in with their pcs, which are pretty slow and expensive. I made the mistake of pluggin the printer into my file server which used to live in the living room, plugged into the TV and stereo (Loggedon as a restricted user of course). And I just happend to print out 800 pages of a users guide for a cad-cam utilility i was using at uni. By the time I was finished printing, there was a queue of people asking permission to use my printer, and proffering floppies. Witin a matter of minutes it was set up as a shred printer, and every month i sent out an e-mail containing the printer logs, charging the university rate of 5p/b&w sheet. Needless to say, I've not had to pay for a cartrage out of my own pocket since.

snatale1

Since I've been using Linux (2 years) this is the most compatible a printer has been for me. I've had alot of HP & Lexmark which worked...but thats all they did. The C82 and Epson is general is great with linux imho Due to the fact they set up in an instant, and most of all the utils that check ink levels, reset printer, re-align all work correctly which they never did with other printers.

David Haas

The C82 prints text beautifully and pictures adequately--as well in Linux as in Windows. Although Ubuntu recognized this USB printer, the printer remained mute until I installed and selected the drivers present in this distribution. This took me some time, because I had been using Windows and had no prior experience with Linux. Like most inexpensive printers, the C82 can't read postscript (the language Linux uses to send files to printers), so it needs to have this language translated for it to work. CUPS (common unix printing system) uses Ghostscript for this. Also needed are the Foomatic database and the proper ppd file, which for this printer is escp2-c82.ppd. All of these came with the Ubuntu distro, but needed to be selected.