Pros
- Affordably priced
- Good looking photos on photo paper
Cons
- Produces weak prints on plain paper
- Lacks a color LCD and media card slots
At A Glance
This no-frills printer produces wonderful photos, but it's slow and print quality on plain paper is lackluster.
Manufacturer’s Description
Get creative with your photos and CDs! It's easy with the Epson Stylus R220 Photo printer, an impressive 6-color printer that brings quality and convenience home at a truly remarkable value. The perfect solution for all your photo projects, it quickly delivers brilliant scrapbook pages, homework assignments and more. And, it prints directly on ink jet printable CDs and DVDs. It's the ideal solution - whatever the task at hand.
The Specs
| Pricing | |
|---|---|
| Part Number | C11C626011 |
| Inventory Number | 24734 |
| Requirements | |
| Operating System Compatibility |
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| Ports and Connections | |
| USB 1.1 | Yes |
| USB 2.0 | No |
| PictBridge | No |
| Parallel Port | 0 |
| Serial Port | No |
| Power | |
| Maximum Power Draw (watts) | 12 watts |
| Standby Power Draw (watts) | 3 watts |
| Dimensions | |
| Width | 18.5 inches |
| Depth | 10.5 inches |
| Height | 7.8 inches |
| Weight | 11.4 pounds |
| Media Handling | |
| Standard Number of Input Trays | 1 |
| Standard Input Sheet Capacity | 120 |
| Manual Feed Slot | 1 |
| Automatic Duplexer | Not Available |
| Max Input Trays | 1 |
| Maximum Paper Height | 14.0 |
| Storage Media | |
| Compact flash | No |
| Resolutions | |
| Monochrome horizontal optical resolution | 5750 x 1440 dpi |
| Color horizontal optical resolution | 5750 x 1440 dpi |
Performance
| PCWorld Test Center (Quality) | |
|---|---|
| Print quality: Text | Fair |
| Print quality: Color photo | Superior |
| Print quality: Grayscale photo | Superior |
| PCWorld Test Center (Speed) | |
|---|---|
| Print speed: Text | 2.1 ppm |
| Performance | |
|---|---|
| Color Output Quality | Fair |
| Output Score, Grayscale Graphics, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Grayscale-Best) | Superior |
| Color Photo (secs) | 31.02 |
| Output Score, Color Photo, Best Quality Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Best) | Superior |
| 5 x 7 Photo (secs) | 82.31 |
| Line Art Output Quality | Poor |
| One-Page Grayscale Graphic (secs) | 31.39 |
| Three-Page PowerPoint Document (secs) | 118.71 |
| Color Photo, Normal Settings | 31.02 |
| Ten-Page Word Document (secs) | 286.21 |
| Tested Glossy Photo Speed (ppm) | 0.7 |
| Output Score, Line Art, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-LineArt-Default) | Poor |
| Color Photo, Best Quality Settings | 82.31 |
| Tested Photo Speed (formerly pf-PCWPhotoSpeed) | 0.7 |
| Two-Page Excel Document (secs) | 69.69 |
| Output Score, Color Graphics, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Color-Default) | Fair |
| Tested Color Speed (ppm) | 1.6 |
| Output Score, Text, Default Settings (formerly pf-Output-Print-Text-Default) | Fair |
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