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Once More With Feeling

Like clockwork‚ and as it does every 12 months, in early 2001Epsonreleased its next-generation photographic printer, theEpson Stylus Photo 1280. (In some worldwide markets it is also called the1290 ‚ same printer, just a different name). There is also an890model, offing the same image quality but with a narrower paper transport. Everything I write here about the1280applies to the1290and also to the890, in that particular case with the exception of paper-width handling ability.
It's been exactly a year since theEpson 1270appeared. At that time it caused a real sti...

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