Epinions Recent Reviews for Alps MD-5000P Printer

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Save your money......

Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:50:19 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author snuffysmith - ....and buy anything that will last. I too, received the anti-curl error after only perhaps 50 photo prints. I was thunderstruck when I heard the price for repair. It's just not worth it. There SHOULD be a way to take the anti-curl motor out of the...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: A love/hate relationship with my printer

Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:37:59 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author dkaakd - I have an ALPS MD5000 printer. I have not purchased the $100 dye-sub upgrade, but I do print scanned images on the photo quality paper from time to time. I have a love, hate relationship with this printer.

I have had this printer for about...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Frustrating

Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:43:29 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jamofa56 - Purchased for printing photographs. Had to send the first machine back soon have arrival due to annoying horizontal lines in image. Ordered the Dye Sublimation Add-On expecting the advertised results. Customer Service was not exactly helpful, blamed my...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Poor quality short life of usage

Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:52:07 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author lboeckl - I own an Alps 5000 printer with the dye sub upgrade. I have used it around 14 months now. I printed approx 100 photos on its vPhoto paper and one the high quality photo paper. The images were unbelieveably wonderful. Best I have ever saw anywhere...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Better than photo quality!

Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:35:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author balberth - The Alps MD-5000P printer is in a class by itself when it comes to consumer oriented photo quality printers.

I purchased the ALPS MD-5000 printer around a year ago after doing a lot of research and looking at the best Epson, HP and Canon had...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: $20K printer for $600

Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:56:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Dicty - I don't believe most people realize what caliber of machine they are looking at when they see the Alps MD5000p next to the consumer inkjets at the local computer shops. This printer can do dye sublimation printing, something that you ordinarily can't...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Other reports on Alps and MD-5000

Sun, 10 Sep 2000 09:40:24 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Underwraps - I've known about Alps printers for awhile now and I've held off in buying one to get some feed back on the product, Yes its a great printer and incredibly versitle on its media and output BUT, I've also heard and read that the MD-5000 has considerable...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: I love my Alps printer

Fri, 11 Aug 2000 01:19:07 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author rangkiko - After several months of searching for a color printer, I finally decided to buy an Alps MD-5000. I decided to consider Alps after asking friends who own ink jets. Their complaint was the price of ink jet cartridges and how irritating it was to run out of...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: A hidden gem of a printer

Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:12:51 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author f8lee - The ALPS MD5000 is an outstanding printer - versatile insofar as what kinds of papers it can print on, rugged, and output that is both long lasting and excellent. Add the dye-sublimation kit, and it will produce virtual halide photograph type quality...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Quality prints but at a high price

Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:15:18 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author ejdeleon - At the onset, I'd like to say that the Alps5000 (with dye sublimation option) is the closest you'll get to professional photographic quality...hands-down. With the standard printer (without dye sub), you get an average printer (even with V-photo paper)...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Interesting little machine...

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 18:02:48 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author xymox_1 - Alps printers have always fascinated me, mostly because they differ so greatly from all the other printers on the market today. Where leaders like HP and Epson continue to use wet ink as their medium, Alps has taken a different path with a thermal...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Fantastic quality prints - when it works!

Wed, 17 May 2000 19:57:17 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author nlleigh - I have an Alps MD-5000. No 'P' after the name, but it looks exactly like the one in the photo. Let me tell you, I was so impressed with the printing jobs this little machine produces, that I was absolutely thrilled with it when I first got it....
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Alps MD-5000P Printer: Flawless Printer!! Steep Price?

Sun, 7 May 2000 21:09:39 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author reviewster - I bought my Alps MD-5000 from www.Buy.com in January 2000. I spent nearly three months reviewing the printer market and chose the Alps based on several key factors. First, the Alps offers the highest resolution of any desktop printer on the market. It...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Excellent quality photo printer

Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:23:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author adilz - I use this printer for printing photographs, and the quality is truly excellent. I will recommend that the dye sub upgrade should be purchased since it allows continuous tone photo quality prints. Alps should consider including the dye sub key in the...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: I've got an older model Alps ...

Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:21:38 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author brattee - I LOVE my Alps MD-1000 printer. OK, so it's not the 5000 series, but, that was not an option to write about. I have four printers ... and this is the one I absolutely am in love with. I honestly can't say enough good things about it. The print...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: A Saga of Quality

Mon, 27 Dec 1999 15:53:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author gridtex - The Alps MD-5000P is the most interesting printer on the market today. There are always two sides to every coin. If you are a low volume user, and a quality fanatic, the Alps MD-5000P is your ideal printer. Its quality with the dye sublimation upgrade...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Alps MD-5000P: Expensive and quirky

Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:56:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jiwhite - I bought the ALPS MD-5000 with my husband because he prints surveillance photographs to document criminal cases for the police. He wanted a printer that would be at least 1200 DPI. We didn't want to spend too much for the hardware and weren't planning...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: On top of Alps.

Mon, 20 Dec 1999 02:45:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author O3M - Okay, I confess. I am obsessed with digital photography. Since I got my second digital camera, about eight months ago, I have taken about 5800 pictures. That’s around 25 pictures a day. Although I primarily use them for collages there has been always a...

Alps MD-5000P Printer: Marvelous prints, Incredible price.

Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:09:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mstamler - The Alps series of printers is outstanding in quality and photographic realism. The 5000 is especially so as it prints true dye sublimation prints, and coats the prints with a UV protectant making it's prints the most archival dye-subs on the market...