Epson 680, It's a joke! (Epson Stylus Colour 680)

Member Name: jamespugh

Product:	Epson Stylus Colour 680
Date:	26/07/01 (1159 review reads)
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Advantages: Nat bad quality printing

Disadvantages: Very poor design, Poor alrond printer

I decided to write this opinion after experiencing dissatisfaction from purchasing the Epson 680 inkjet printer.

When buying my most recent pc, I wanted a printer as part of the bundle. I had, had an Epson 600 inkjet printer from some years now an had been very pleased with it, it was strong, reliable and gave a good print quality at acceptable speeds.

So when asked what printer I would like, with no hesitation I chose the new Epson 680 thinking it was to generation above mine (640 and 680) I though that there would be an improvement, and if there wasn’t then as long as it was as good as my 600 then I would be happy.

But no suck luck, I have come to realise that Epson have come to change the way in which they make printers. The Epson 680 is far worse quality wise that the 600, the printer is light, made of thinner plastic and has one of the worst printed document holder yet seen in any printer. It’s almost like on of those plastic wallets, but sticking out of the printer, it almost bends when printout collect in it.

Print wise the quality has been slightly improved, and it is faster, but the whole ink system I have to say has been designed very poorly indeed. There is only one light to tell you when the inks out only software tells you, while the Epson 600 has separate lights on the printer, which flashed also when ink was low, again another function that the new 680 hasn’t got. Also when the colour ink is out you can’t even just print a basic black and white document. The printer stops working al together.

While I am on the ink thing the cartridges are very expensive and are also hard to get hold of. They are probably this expensive due to a new technology the Epson has put on then called ‘Intelligent’ ink. The have a little chip to sort of tell the printer how much ink was in them. So they are more expensive but the new technology is no benefit to the old.

So in summery then
Epson 680 is more of an economy printer, it’s noisy, not very strong, not bad print quality and speed but very noisy.

It reminds me very much of those disposable camera’s

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