Epson Stylus Photo 870

I'm not the kind of person that gets excited over computer peripherals but I can tell you that this is the best purchase I have made. The printer has been reduced in price from over £200 to about £150-£160 and gives a quality of print that far exceeds some printers that retail at over £300. The quality of photo printing (if you use photo paper) is breath taking. I did a footy club calendar and my mates couldn't belive that a home PC could get such a quality result (unlike my footy team). The printer is highly recommended in PC mags and on the internet. The downside is that it seems to eat the ink up, but then I was printing ...

This printer turns out great images on photo paper and reasonable images on normal paper. It has a 5 coulour cartridge and a black cartridge. Though they are cheap, the printer consumes quite a lot at 1440*720dpi, but it's worth it. There's practically no "pixelisation" and the shades are totally uniform. The straight paper path allows it to print on thicker paper than average printers. The text quality is good even though it's not the fastest printer for this. Build quality seems higher than average, and drivers are great. The drivers allow to center images to page print them to fit page and allow lots of tweaking to the actual printing ...

At long Last! An affordable printer that can turn out superb photo-quality prints. It is quick and quiet, turning out A4 colour photographs in a few seconds. Printing onto plain paper gives good results but when you print onto Epsom photo paper you can't believe your eyes as the image emerges from the printer. Skin tones are excellent and there is no sign of banding when printing large areas of colour. You even get a role of photo paper in the box that allows you to print photo-banners and panoramas. If you are looking to print colour images or photographs then at £199 you need look no further! ...