Epson Stylus C42 UX Inkjet Printer

• Fast 12 ppm black and 5.5 ppm color print speeds
• 2,880 x 720 optimized dpi resolution
• Easy to set up and use, simple plug-and-play operation
• Ink cartridges included
• Convenient USB connectivity

I don''t write reviews but for the first week of using this printer I hated it. Constantly had to clean the head and waste ink. Lo and Behold I sat down and read the manual for this printer. For years I have used printers that I simply turned off with a master computer switch. Epson is different. You must turn the printer off with it''s own power switch. Otherwise the heads do not charge properly. This took care of all the complaints I had with this printer. The C42UX is the best inexpensive printer I have ever used. Just remember, from day one that you use the printer, turn the thing off with it''s own power switch. All Epson Ink Jet printers sound loud and clunkey. Thats the way they are made. You find me a better printer for the money and I will buy it.

Js

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Look, this is a cheap printer and you get what you pay for. Personally, I''ve used it to print resumes, sheet music and papers for school. It''s been fine for all of the above. I''ve never tried to print a photo on it but I wouldn''t waste my time doing that anyway. Since you hopefully didn''t pay more than $40 for this thing, you shouldn''t expect photo quality. It has lasted me 2 years now, and it prints almost as well today as it did when I got it. It''s certainly nothing special, but based on all the "one star" reviews below, you would think this thing didn''t even work.

So yes, it''s slow, uses ink too quickly and doesn''t print in high resolution. But if you want to save money-and aren''t printing photos or running a home business-this thing will work fine.

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I bought this printer with my laptop.

Big mistake. Yes, like everyone else has already said, it''s slow (12 ppm... sure I seriously doubt it. It takes 20-30 seconds to print a full page of text with this piece of junk), noisy and the ink is a serious problem. Not many stores carry the ink in the first place and in the second place, the ink runs out so fast you will find yourself constantly having to buy new ink. AND if you you run out of one type of ink you cannot print at all. At times when I''ve simply wanted to print in color, because I had no black ink everytime I started a print job this really obnoxious prompt would keep popping up asking me to visit the epson homepage to order ink. This is great for epson because you are forced to buy more ink but very bad for the user. It is a problem you too will become well familiar with if you waste a cent on this printer. You may think you''re getting a good deal but most of your money will go down the drain because of the ink cost. Another thing, the cartridges must be very leaky because the inside of the printer is stained with a nice thick film of black ink that stains all my your documents whenever I print. What''s more, I must costantly clean and align the printer head otherwise anything and everything I print out in will be riddled with lines of faded text.

All of this is not to say that epson creates bad printers. In fact all of my past epson printers were excellent.

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It gets the job done. but the picture is not great.

This one came free with Powerbook purchase, guess thats the only way Epson get to sell their very expensive ink!!

Too many problems to list...

Just got rid of my other Epson (820) and got a Canon, same fate awaits this one.

If it were free I would refuse it, leave it on the shelf for someone else to dispose of.....