Epson 1200 any good?

[Starfront]

Hi everyone,

I had an Epson Stylus 1200 offered to me today, I currently use an Epson SX445W for general printing and printing onto transfer paper. My thought process was maybe the 1200 could replace my SX445 if it were better? However I can't seem to find any specification information anywhere on the 1200 even after trying to chat with an epson adviser over their website...

Does anyone know in general if the 1200 would be better for printing onto transfer paper - Or if at all the 1200 is good for sublimation, printing to canvas etc etc.

Thanks in advance guys.

[draig]

The 1200 is a dye based printer (not dye sub) I've owned one since they were first released, now it's just a very big paper stand. Funnily enough I was doing a google search earlier to try and find some refillable cartridges for it and bring it back into use (intended to get some more of the Lyson Ink, which it ran on quite well). The results from the printer are excellent, but in comparison with the current breed of Epsons it is slow.

It has always been the forgotten printer, and whilst you can get cartridges (original & Compatable)

Sharon

[pisquee]

Stylus Photo 1200 manual etc http://www.epson.co.uk/Printers-and-All ... rs-Support
unless you mean a stylus 1200 (not stylus photo)

[JSR]

Hi everyone,

I had an Epson Stylus 1200 offered to me today, I currently use an Epson SX445W for general printing and printing onto transfer paper. My thought process was maybe the 1200 could replace my SX445 if it were better? However I can't seem to find any specification information anywhere on the 1200 even after trying to chat with an epson adviser over their website...

Does anyone know in general if the 1200 would be better for printing onto transfer paper - Or if at all the 1200 is good for sublimation, printing to canvas etc etc.

Thanks in advance guys.

I would have thought one way in which the 1200 is better than the SX445 is that the 1200 is an A3+ (13" carriage) printer. True, the 1200 will be as slow as molasses, won't have the tiniest droplet size on Earth, and won't reach dizzy heights of 2880/5760dpi print resolutions that modern printers have, but it's A3+ so that's got to be worth something.

My knowledge of Epson printers doesn't go as far back as the 1200, but I believe it was the successor of the popular 1160 and it spawned the whole 12xx series of printers - 1250/1270/1280/1290/1290S - before finally being replaced with today's current model, the 1400.

It's probably old enough that the cartridges won't have chips, which could prove beneficial if you're able to find any refillable cartridges or a CISS for it. And that'll be your stumbling block - finding cartridges/CISS that you can put dye-sub ink in. If you find some, it should be fine for dye-sub ink - in fact, with the larger minimum droplet size, it might actually be better suited than the modern printers.

Whether there's a printer driver available for it for a modern OS will be another question. I believe it was originally designed for Windows 95/98 - not even Me, and certainly not XP, Vista, or 7. Looks like there could be an XP driver on Epson's website.

Here's the product brochure: http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pho12_/pho12_sl.pdf
And the product information guide: http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pho12_/pho12_pg.pdf
And the user manual: http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/pho12_/pho12_u1.pdf

I still have the last of the 12xx series printers here (the 1290S). Don't use it much, but it was such a reliable workhorse that I don't want to part with it (despite having two 1400s here).