Superb Quality - Superb Price ! (Epson Stylus Color 760)

Member Name: Daisy

Product:	Epson Stylus Color 760
Date:	22/10/00 (236 review reads)
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Advantages: Great print quality, low price

Disadvantages: none

My old HP 670 just was not up to the job of photoquality printing. I therefore spent some time gathering information about reasonably priced printers (and consulting Dooyoo of course!) and decided to buy an Epson Stylus Colour 760.

The printer cost £86 (free delivery) from www.dabs.com, which is much cheaper than I had seen it anywhere else. It was easy to set up and within 20 minutes of unpacking the box I had my test page printed off. There is a very easy to follow ‘poster’ describing the installation steps.

The printer comes complete with Adobe PhotoDelux 3.1 and two Epson packages called Print Adventures along with the printer software itself and several high resolution example images – making a total of 4 CDs inside the box.

Note however that there is no printer cable supplied – you need to provide either a parallel or usb cable depending on how you want to connect your printer to your PC.

There is a sample paper pack containing various types and grades of photo and inkjet papers also included.

This printer is fast when printing photoquality images and the quality on glossy photo paper is superb. I printed off one of Epsons example images on A4 glossy photo paper and took it into the office with me last week – everyone, even the die hard photography experts were impressed with the quality of output. I have since scanned in several photos and made copies on the printer – they all look superb. Now if only I had a digital camera and a negative scanner then my enlarger and developing kit could be banished to the loft for good!

Ink cartridges are significantly cheaper than HPs (they may not contain the same amount of ink but are easier on the pocket when you do replace them) and there are several 3rd party manufactured cartridges available at the many computer fairs in the area. I bought both a black and colour cartridge for £8 the pair at my local fair – although I ha
ve yet to try them out to see what the quality is like.

Oh and just incase you’re wondering the photo glossy paper that I so like costs about £6 for 20 A4 sheets.

Needless to say text is printed to laser quality and spat out of the printer at a tremendous rate compared to anything else I’ve ever used.

So if you’re looking for a fast, economical printer capable of delivering photoquality output then I would recommend the Epson 760.

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