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The Bottom Line I think everyone should checkout the different model inkjet printers available before you make the final purchase. With vast selection to choose from a knowledge will go along way.
I have seen and or tested just about every brand of Inkjet printers. I have seen quite a change over the past couple of years, speed used to be a big concern, then they switched to the print quality and now there are back on the speed thing again. My question is who buys a Inkjet printer for its speed. If you want speed you need to buy a laser printer. Most people I know who bought a inkjet printer, it was because of the quality of print, not the speed. The quality of the color prints that come out of a color inkjet printer are amazing. With the many different paper options available, you can print some high quality pictures from most inkjet printers. If the picture quality is the most important reason for buying an inkjet printer you want to choose the printers with the highest resolution, which is measured in dot per inch. The highest resolution I know of right now is the Epson Stylus Color 777, it has a resolution of 2880 x 720 DPI or dots per inch. If speed is what you are looking for, then you need to look at the model that prints the most pages per minute.Currently the Epson Stylus Color 980 is the fastest of the printers in it's class at 13 ppm in black and white. In the past the print speed in black and white was considerably faster than color. The Epson Stylus Printers are categorized into 4 different categories; Personal use, Office use, Photo use and wide format. Personal Use: As the name implies, these printers in this category were designed to be inexpensive yet also produce a very good quality print. They all are also slow as inkjet printers goes.The three printers that fall into this category are the Epson Stylus Color 480SXU 4ppm print speed, resolution 720 x 720dpi. Epson Stylus Color 580 6 ppm print speed, resolution 1400 x 720 dpi Epson Stylus Color 777 8 ppm print speed, resolution 2880 x 720 dpi All three of these printers are very capable of printing good quality text and very nice quality color prints. The price range of these printers are between $60.00- $100.00. I recommend the Epson Stylus Color 777 Office Use The printers in this category are designed to handle a heavier workload and they are faster printers.They will produce a better quality picture.The five printers in this category are: Epson Stylus Color 880 12 ppm print speed, resolution 2880 x 720 Epson Stylus Color 880i 12 ppm print speed, resolution 2880 x 720 Epson Stlyus Color 8 12 ppm print speed, resolution 2880 x 720 Epson Stylus Color 980 13 ppm print speed, resolution 2880 x 720 Epson Stylus Color 980N 13 ppm print speed, resolution 2880 x 720 network ready The price range of these printers is between $150.00- $450.00.I recommend the Epson Stylus Color 980 Photo Use These printers are used mainly for printing high quality pictures, they don't handle text printing very well. The quality of the color prints on the other hand are awesome. There are 6 printers in this category: Epson Stylus Photo 870 Epson Stylus Photo 875DC includes Smartmedia reader Epson Stylus Photo 875DCS inclused smartmedia and Memory Stick reader Epson Stylus Photo 870 Limited Edition Inkjet Printer Epson Stylus Photo 1270 wide format printer Epson Stylus 2000P wide format printer These printers in this category use 6 colors to produce the quality prints, all the printers except for the 1270 and the 2000P will print a 4"x6" picture in 48 seconds. All six printers are capable of printing on roll media. The 1270 and the 2000P are larger format printers that are able to print on 13"x19" paper or 13"x 44" roll media. The price range on these printers is between $180.00- $900.00. For over all printing I would recommend the Epson Stylus Color 1270. In my many years of experience with inkjet printers Epson inkjet printers are the best for your money. They produce the best quality print on plain paper and on high quality paper. I hope this review has helped you to better decide what model of inkjet printer is best suited for your print job. This is a recently revised review and it was archived so I deleted the original.  |
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