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I spent months evaluating printers before picking the r300. I am very satisfied with my choice. I'll start out with the negatives. I have 4 criticisms about the printer: 1. The ink warning light comes on long before you are out of ink. 2. The default print settings appear to be designed around (dark) Adobe Gamma PC video 3. It is not designed to make borderless prints on 3rd party (Kodak) photo paper 4. While the CD printing produces gorgeous images, the ink will smear if it gets wet. Each of these issues is addressed very easily: 1. Don't change the ink cartridges until you really run out. 2. Use the advanced options to tweak the gamma, brightness and contrast and save the settings. Pros will make their own curves anyway. 3. Epson paper is better than anything else, but if you have to use other paper, you can "fake" it to get borderless prints with a custom paper setting. 4. Don't get the CD's wet. Excepting my own tests, I've never had the slightest smear on a CD that I printed from the Epson. Odds are that it'll never get wet, so don't worry. I should add that when I print on quality Epson and Kodak photo paper, the ink sets very well, so that it won't smear EVEN if it gets wet. I swear, my friend dropped one of my photo-prints in my fishtank and it looks just as good today as it did before it got wet. I've left prints in the sun in the back of my car. The r300 ink hasn't faded (on Kodak and Epson photo paper). The prints that I had from my old Epson and HP printers are very faded. This ink is durable! I've discovered that I can even get superior iron ons from crummy inkjet iron on paper when I use this printer. It's more than just the resolution. Where other inks tend to vaporize under the iron, producing fuzzy edges, the r300 images remain sharp. I've tested the output on this thing every way from Sunday and I haven't found the flaw yet. I tried the smart memory slots and I hooked up a USB zip drive and yes, it all works although I'll probably never use those features for more than contact sheets. The uncorrected prints were exceptionally good. Basically, what I'm saying is that the printer is vastly superior to any other inkjet that I've used in my home or at work -- and I do graphic design for a living. I find it hard to believe that anyone who tries an r300 won't fall in love with it.