|
|
Reviews Around The Web
|
Choose Web Reviews from this Maker:
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
The new Epson EMP-TWD3 gives users the convenience of projection and DVD playback in one device for quick cinematic visuals almost anywhere.
|
|
Thursday, November 23, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
The PictureMate 280 (£145 ex. VAT) is Epson's latest portable photo printer. Sitting at the top of the company's range, the PictureMate 280 (215x152x180mm, 3.1kg) lets you enjoy the latest benefits of digital photography without sacrificing the family tradition of collecting and sharing your photos. In other words, it's a brilliant product for those who find using a computer to manage and print digital photographs a chore, or for those who would like to make printing and sharing photos more sociable.
|
|
Saturday, November 18, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
|
Looking like a small cool-box, or perhaps an isotope container, and coloured a silver-grey, the PictureMate 280 has modern, functional styling. The lid, which inexplicably has a small, clear window in it, lifts to become the support for up to 20 sheets of 15 x 10cm photo paper. This loads at the back of the top panel and feeds out to the front, where the drawbridge-like front cover becomes the paper output tray.
|
|
Monday, October 30, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
Coloured in black and silver, the machine really is substantial, with what is styled to look like a control panel running the full width of its front. There are only three buttons, for power, ink replacement and page eject, set at its centre, though. Behind the panel is a large, silver top-cover, which lifts to reveal a cartridge carrier with six, push-fit, colour ink cartridges. As its name suggests, this is a photo printer and includes light cyan and light magenta inks as well as the four main colours.
|
|
Friday, August 11, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
It's not often we test an A3 mono laser printer as few companies need the
larger size in a black and white print. That might be part of the reason
you'll get little change out of £1,000 for this Epson workgroup machine.
Another reason could well be the fast claimed print speeds of 30ppm for A4
and 17ppm for A3 pages. Even so, at first glance, it looks expensive.
|
|
Monday, August 7, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
It's not often we test an A3 mono laser printer as few companies need the
larger size in a black and white print. That might be part of the reason
you'll get little change out of £1,000 for this Epson workgroup machine.
Another reason could well be the fast claimed print speeds of 30ppm for A4
and 17ppm for A3 pages. Even so, at first glance, it looks expensive.
|
|
Sunday, May 21, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
Printing anything larger than A4 can cost a lot of money. Large format printers start at around £1,000 and rise steeply from there. There is an intermediary path though. If but don't need A2 or bigger and only want to go up to A3+ - A3 prints with full bleed then Epson's Stylus Photo R2400 is a versatile medium format machine. It can handle sheet, roll and thick media of up to 1.3mm, which makes it suitable for small signage...
|
|
Monday, March 27, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
After the successful launch of the RX520, a photo-targeted all-in-one device, Epson has come up with its larger, more capable cousin, the RX640. As well as being able to print, scan and copy, this machine can upload or print from memory cards or a PictBridge camera, scan and print transparencies and negatives, and print to CD or DVD blanks. It also prints in six colours, compared with the RX520's four...
|
|
Monday, February 20, 2006
|
|
|
|
|
Possibly a little pricey, when compared with similar HP DesignJets, The Stylus Pro 4800 does produce very high quality, eight-colour prints, in both colour and monochrome, with its three 'black' inks. Running costs are fair for a commercial device, so overall, the Stylus Pro 4800 should certainly be on your short list...
|
|
Friday, December 16, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
The Stylus Photo RX520 is a conventionally designed multi-function device, with paper feeding from the back and ejecting onto a front tray. This tray projects very little from the front of the machine. Most of its top surface is taken up by a flat-bed scanner which, interestingly, can be used to scan transparencies as well as paper originals. This gives the machine extra functionality for anybody wanting to transfer slides to digital format...
|
|
Thursday, December 1, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
Sitting between its Lexmark (cheaper) and HP (dearer) competitors, Epson's PictureMate 100 is a well-designed, portable photo lab. The LCD display is a bit small and printing from memory cards is unaccountably slow, but we still think this is the best of the sub-£100, photo-only printers we've tested...
|
|
Saturday, September 17, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
The Stylus DX4800 is a sleek, curvaceous design, traditionally laid out with a 1,200ppi flatbed scanner on top and a paper path running from a vertical tray at the rear to a horizontal one at the front. A comprehensive control panel runs down the left-hand side of the top panel, with a rather tacky stick-on label giving you more information on what the lights and buttons mean...
|
|
Thursday, August 25, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
A fast mono laser printer, complete with a level 3 PostScript interpreter and reasonable upgrade potential is a good buy at the kind of street price the EPL-6200 now attracts. The print quality is above-average and although the printer is a little ungainly and could do with more than its standard 8MB of memory, it should be considered by anybody wanting a home or small business mono workhorse...
|
|
Friday, July 29, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
This is a very neat, simple printer, giving superb quality prints with a minimum of fuss. Able to print directly from a PictBridge camera, just about any memory card or from your PC, it's also very versatile. With just a single ink cartridge for its six-colour print system, it could hardly be easier to maintain and since Epson has increased the number of prints from its PicturePack, it's also one of the cheapest photo printers to run. Hard to fault, really...
|
|
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
|
|
|
|
|
It's nice to see such pretty and elegant machines as the F-3200. It's also nice to see EPSON being so meticulous when developing each new scanner model. And still, the EPSON F-3200 Film Scanner is not quite the device they wrote about in the official press releases. I would question its targeting at "professionals and photo-enthusiasts". It is rather suitable for a mass user. And if so, the price does not conform to the budget of an ordinary buyer. It is overtly overstated - spending about $650 for this scanner would be a squander, I think...
|
|
|
|
|
|