Epson has targeted September 2010 as the release month for three new printers in its Artisan series. The new printers will have faster print speeds (4×6 inch photos in ten seconds), faster copy speed (38 pages per minute), faster ISO speeds (9-9.5 ISO pages per minute).  Added technology will also mean that owners of these printers will be able send documents to print from their mobile devices.

I’m hoping they have addressed some of the flaws that plagued their previous Artisan printers (Artisan 700, Artisan 710, Artisan 800, Artisan 810). While these printers already featured the fastest print speeds in the industry, they had extremely buggy software. These bugs made it hard to depend on printer to make your daily printing a seamless easy process. These printers could be quite disruptive!

They also featured a trait that is very common among today’s inkjet printers . . . flimsy plastic output and input paper trays. I don’t imagine this will get fixed with these new versions. No manufacturers are working to improve the input/output trays. One can hope though!

Between the buggy software and the paper jams (caused by flimsy trays) the Epson Artisan printers were quite a hassle, but the quality and speed of the  prints made me put up with them. Hopefully these flaws get fixed because Epson is on to something really good here.

If you’ve used an Epson Artisan printer take a minute and let me know what you think about it. Thanks!