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When I got my new Epson Stylus DX4200 from our local Curry's for a hefty £89.99, I have to admit I had high expectations. I heard plenty of good things of other people and off the salesperson, and I was intrigued by the printer, scanner and copier facilities that the machine provided.

Looking back, I'm tempting to say that it's the best £90 I've ever spent.
Of course that's an over exaggeration, but this printer genuinely is a beautiful thing. It's a fast printer with more functions than a Swiss Army Knife, yet with an interface so easy to use that even I managed to master it in less than half an hour.

There are 2 things you notice straight off your first printout. First, the quality of the print is excellent. Clean, crisp and vibrant, the colours come out brilliantly. Secondly, the speed at which it emerged. Being used to a slower machine, I found this a godsend when printing out page after page of work, which used to take me about an hour (seriously) but which has become 5-10 minutes at aa stretch.
However, every great item has its one niggle, and with this product its problem could be costly. It seems that neglect can cause the ink level to drop faster than what is usual, but regular users should be ok, though it can still creep along and cause damage to your wallet. As people know, ink can be costly if you use the printer a lot.

Yet this problem is minute compared to overall how good the printer is. It can be used as a printer, scanner and copier, the print is nothing short of extraordinary, and it puts in an overall excellent performance. Good work to Epson. I recommend this to anything who wants nothing short of extraordinary from a multi use printer.
And to note, it's a looker as well.
 

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Epson Stylus DX4200

After having my Epson Stylus DX4000 for a few months I needed a change and decided to upgrade to the next model in the series. As with the other printer it is an all-round great product and has many different features that you are able to use. I found that the printer has many qualities that are same as the DX4000 which include ease of use because it is very easy to use and the printing quality, although it is slightly better than the previous model.
The Epson DX4200 offers a complete printing and copying solution for all of the family. It's ideal for nearly everything. It's compatible with all applications and can be used for school projects, web designing, and right down to photo printing. It can be used connected to your computer or you could use it as a standalone printer that allows you to copy documents in black and white or colour. It's your choice. The printer is very easy to use and will meet everybody's needs.

Here are the specifications of the printer:
Up to 5764 x 1440 dpi print resolution
Up to 20 pages per minute in black ink.
Up to 19 pages per minute in colour ink.
Print photos direct via picbridge.
Borderless printing up to A4.
4 individual DURA bright ultra ink tanks
up to 1200 x 2400 dpi scan resolution
Standalone copier
Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interface
Windows and Mac Compatible.
I found that the specification of this printer was better than the spec of the printer before it. Well it would be quite silly to have the next product in the series being worse. Well this is the upgrade and has better features than the previous printer of its series. I find that it is a lot better than the one before it. And when I say a lot better I mean the quality of the picture and the printing speed. Although it actually prints three pages less per minute than the DX4000 it actually prints seven more colour pages per minute.

A new feature to the Epson DX4200 is picbridge printing. This allows for you to connect your camera to the printer via a cable and then print off all of the pictures that you select. I though that this was a very good idea because it saves a lot of time when you are working with large amounts of pictures and images off a camera etc. even though the pictures are coming directly from the camera there is no quality loss when you are printing pictures this way, it just means that you can not apply the touch-up affects that you may use when you scan the images into your computer and then use software such as Corel.
Borderless printing. Another feature that is great to use. Really its self explanatory, it allows you to print pictures or images without a border. This is ideal if you are wanting to frame a picture etc. with this functionality it allows you to use all of the paper and therefore making, in some cases the picture look better than what it would have done otherwise.

With the functionality of having four different cartridges it means that you will save a lot of money on ink cartridges. Each cartridge has a single colour and a slightly larger cartridge for the black as most printers do. With this it means that if you run out of one colour then you can just replace the ink. Whereas with some of the older printers if you ran out of one colour you may be throwing away half a cartridge full of ink because it was all in one. I have found that it is a lot easier to handle the ink as separate colours and I have also found that the ink is a lot cheaper.
One of the main reasons that I have found ink cheaper is because I buy my ink online from a website called internet-ink.co.uk. This means that all my ink needs are at the click of a button and I no longer have to search forever round shops to try and find my ink because PCWorld doesn't stock it. Ink for the printer can be purchased at most good computer stores but as I say I get mine off the internet. Ink from retailers will cost you around £6.99 a cartridge. Where I get my ink from it costs me about £15.00 and then usually 99p postage which isn't really that much considering size, as they do send a free black ink with every purchase.

As this printer is an all in one it means that I can use the scanner bed to either scan images to the computer or I can copy them on to paper at the click of a button. I found that this was very useful because of all the forms that I have to fill out I just make a master copy and then photocopy it right from my computer desk. Meaning I don't have to go to the local newsagents and pay 5p a copy. The quality of the scanner is actually quite good. It picks up most detail that is in pictures and does a really good job. It has not yet failed me.
The thing that makes this printer even better is that it can run on almost any operating system. It can run on Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / Mac OS 10.2.5 or later. It can run on a great amount of operating systems and since XP is now the most widely used operating system that is even better for the user.

I thought that the printer is great and would be able to suit anybody's needs. The only downfall that I have found with it is that it doesn't have the ability to fax. To me it doesn't really matter as I don't fax but it is a slight downfall of the printer. I purchased my printer for £40 off e-Bay and thought that this was great value for money. If you are not a fan of e-Bay you can purchase the printer at PCWorld for £69.97 with free delivery as it is in the clearance zone.
To conclude I think that this is a great printer and I would recommend it to potential buyers.

Full review

It is Sunday morning and I must be bored if all I can do is right a review on this printer, well, here goes, I purchased the Epson DX4200 after my last one went out the window because it was not working right, I was wary about buying a 3 in 1 printer scanner and copier, but once installed (very easy to do (load the disc follow the instructions and hey presto)).

PRINTER
As a printer it is far superior to the previous one I had, the quality of the print is awesome, and the speed of print is also good, with up to 20 PPM's for black and white print and 19 for colour I found this very quick for a home ink jet printer

SCANNER
as a scanner I found this not as good as my HP scanner, but still very quick and the quality is good, for just home use this would be sufficient for general day to day use and nothing more, for professional use, or for those pictures that you do require a better quality scan, I recommend a stand alone scanner.

PHOTO COPIER
well, it is a photo copier, it does what it says on the tin (or so the adverts say), the speed of copy is good, and instantly prints out the copy to a very good standard, in both colour and black and white.

GENERAL
the buttons on the top of the machine are easy to understand and informs you via lights what the DX 4200 is doing at all times, there is a USB outlet at the front for printing from camera should you wish to do this, (I have not as yet).

the only downside I have found with this printer is the ink jet cartridges, if you use genuine EPSON ones, they last no time at all, I used one black one in a week, (Aghhhhhhhhh), but as this has four cartridges opposed to the tri-colour ones of other printers it is more frugal, I decided to try and use non Epson cartridges from my usual company I bought from (they had a buy one get one free offer on) the quality of ink coverage was as good as gen ink, also the cartridges seemed to last a long LONG time far longer than the gen Epson ones that cost £3.50 more per cartridge, not forgetting that my the non gen ones were buy one get one free.
I hope this helps you decide to buy one of these printers, I am well impressed with mine....

Epson inks 'print near photo-quality on plain paper'

Epson has been showing off its new Durabrite Ultra ink, which it says prints photos on ordinary paper better than any other current product.

The secret lies in a couple of resins within the ink. One has an affinity with 'size', the chemicals used to fill holes in paper to create a better surface for ink. The ink resin binds with the size to produce a surface something like that of glossy photo paper.

The other resin solidifies into a protective film above the pigment, Epson says. This, and the fact that Epson inks uses pigments rather than a water-based dyes like many of its rivals, is said to give the print an appearance closer to that of a glossy print and has the added advantage of being resistant to water and smudging.

To prove the point the company immersed prints in water during demonstrations at its UK cartridge factory at Telford and they did seem to be unaffected, though of course the inks do not prevent the wet paper wrinkling.

The print quality certainly looked good compared with what my little Canon i250 could do on plain paper. You can, of course, print on glossy paper too to get full photo quality. Epson says its colours can last up to 120 years in an album, where they are protected from the light.

Durabright Ultra cartridges are used in Epson's latest range of printers, which include three neat little all-in-ones, the DX4200, the DX3800, and the DX4800, ranging in price from £61 to £102 inc Vat. Cartridges are sold in individual colours at £ 6.80 each. These prices are translated from Euros and so may change slightly. For more details see Epson's site.