Printers

Epson Stylus Photo 925

At a Glance

Epson Stylus Photo 925 Inkjet Printer (Epson-C11C475011) $428.99(Lowest Price)

Dan LittmanPhotograph by: Rick RiznerEpson Stylus Photo 925The Stylus Photo 925 has an on-board control panel with flash-memory slots for SmartMedia, CompactFlash, IBM Microdrive, and Memory Stick media, so you can print from your digital camera without using a PC. The control-panel menus let you select layouts for multiple images; crop images; print multiple copies of the same image; apply automatic corrections for portrait, scenery, nighttime, and other shots; and fine-tune brightness, ink saturation, image sharpness, and other attributes. Though the control panel sounds overwhelming, we found it very straightforward. A paper-roll feeder and built-in automatic paper cutter make it easy to run batches of photos. You can connect a Zip drive to a serial port on the printer's back, and then offload images from a media card to a Zip disk or print files stored on a Zip disk.

For an extra $80, you can equip the 925 with a preview monitor (an LCD screen that displays the photos on your memory card, so you don't have to remember frame numbers or print a contact sheet). Oh, and the 925's glossy prints show fabulous detail and lifelike coloring.

If you want to use it for printing text, the 925 has some serious drawbacks: Black ink cartridges cost a pricey $27 apiece (color cartridges run $22 each), and text prints at a very poky 2.1 pages per minute. And text is looks disturbingly rough (though on coated ink-jet paper it looks much better). Gray-scale photos were grainy and lacked detail. On our page of line art, narrow parallel lines overlapped terribly.Epson provides a copy of ArcSoft's well-respected PhotoImpression photo editor, along with Epson's own FilmFactory photo-album program and a PIM color-matching plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. The 925's documentation covers troubleshooting, setup, and printer usage in detail, and Epson supplies a booklet on printing from a digital camera.If you already have a printer for text documents, you'll like what the 925 does for your photos.299Rated 8 ppm for text/8 ppm for graphics (draft mode), 5760-by-720 -dpi maximum resolution, 100 sheets input, 30 outputwww.epson.com800/463-7766

Epson Stylus Photo 925 Inkjet Printer (Epson-C11C475011)

Where to buy

View full product specs »

Lowest price:	$428.99

Compare

Epson Stylus Photo 925

At a Glance

Epson Stylus Photo 925 Inkjet Printer (Epson-C11C475011)

The Cheapskate's Guide to Printing

Subscribe to the Power Tips Newsletter

Great Dell Deals

Popular Printers