Epson C64, good for photo and documents (Epson Stylus C64)

Member Name: bowdeni

Product:	Epson Stylus C64
Date:	02/04/05 (507 review reads)
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Advantages: Fantastic quality prints, Cheap ink cartridges

Disadvantages: Slower than other dedicated printers

Prior to purchasing this product, my fundmental problems with printers was in loading paper, the quality of prints and the price of ink cartridges. I feel that the Epson C64 has none of these problems.

Printing quality of the Epson C64 is fantastic. I purchased this printer to use for office use, printing documents but in times when I have required to print photographs, I have been very impressed with the quality (retail photgraph quality).

This was my first Epson printer, previously I had owned about 4 Canons. I don't know whether it was a fault of Canon printers, or printers in general but I found that my old Canon printers had problems in loading paper. Despite paper being in the tray to be use, frequently it would not load automatically. Subsequently, I would have to load the paper manually, frustrating and time consuming. The Epson C64 has no issues.

The price of ink cartridges certainly put me off buying another Canon. For the Epson C64, I have been buying third party ink catridges off a a very popular online site, for just £5 each. The cartridges perform well and last as long as the official Espon ones. In the long term, financially the Epson C64 is an excellant choice.

The only criticism I have of the printer is that it can be slow printing general text documents. I'm using a high specification computer but find that the print takes a long time to commence, and a long time to actually print. However relative, it is still average and this is a minor criticism.

So to conclude, I believe this printer is ideal for users who want a balance of a printer to produce Word documents and to print photographs. Photograph quality is excellant and it prints word documents to a satisfactory standard. The only user who I wouldn't recommend this produt to is those who have no interest in printing photographs, but instead many text documents.
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