Hardware Geeks

Epson on Wednesday will officially announce their new high end Artisan line. The new line will launch with two new all-in-one printers, the Artisan 700 and my favorite the Artisan 800.

The Artisan 800 if the mother-load of all printers, it is wi-fi capable, has a 3.5 inch LCD touchscreen that only lights up the buttons you need to use at that moment, the screen will also allow you to control the printers functions, edit images (brighten, darken, rorate and even crop).

As you can see from the image above and to the right the placement of the LCD Touchscreen is simply beautiful and in my opinion perfectly locted.

When I first saw the Artisan 800 a few weeks ago I knew then and there I wanted one. You may have also noticed from image above there is a “Open CD Tray button”, it does not burn CD’s but it does have a CD printer, meaning if you have CD’s with blank faces that can be printed on the Artisan 800 will print on them.

The Artisan 800 also has cool activities built in, such as coloring book mode which will allow you to print your pictures with out the colors being filled in so you or the kids in your family can color, and yes I did say “you” because we all know that if you have one of these you will spend time coloring even if its on the down low.

Both the Artisan 800 and 700 will use Epsons high quality Claria Ink and a special print technology that will deliver quality print each time. Both printers will also auto correct images in a manner that is more accurate than the competition. Both also have two paper trays, one for photos and the other for paper so you do not need to switch out your 8x11 plain paper for photo paper and vice versa.

The Artisan 800 will sell for about $299 and the 700 for $199 and is currently available for pre-order at Amazon.com.

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