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Good for photos, OK for text
Interfaces with Apple computers
Windows compatible

$99.99
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Epson America Stylus Photo 925 Inkjet Printer Review

by Dan Littman

The 925 provides all the tools for printing glossies without a PC.

WHAT'S HOT: The 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.

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WHAT'S NOT: 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.

WHAT ELSE: 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.

UPSHOT: If you already have a printer for text documents, you'll like what the 925 does for your photos.

SUMMARY

Epson Stylus Photo 925

Rated 8 ppm for text/8 ppm for graphics (draft mode), 5760-by-720 -dpi maximum resolution, 100 sheets input, 30 output

$299
800/463-7766
www.epson.com

User Reviews for Epson America Stylus Photo 925 Inkjet Printer

Reviewed by: JoeSava

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Nice job printing photos and text, but only with coated papers.

Weaknesses: Tiny ink cartridges, slooooow, noisy, plus the draft setting is almost impossible to read, requiring you to use normal, ink drinking, mode.

Overall Evaluation: I've owned an Epson photo 750, a Lexmark and two HP Deskjets. I still use my old HP 722c. I promised I'd never buy another Epson. No question in my mind, they are a poor value. HP and Lexmark cartridges are much larger and cost the same or less. The only reason I bought the Epson Photo 925, was because Outpost was selling refurbished units for 39.95. Yes, you read that right. This includes a color and black cartridge. Yep, for the price of the cartridges, I got a free printer. And after my Epson Photo 750 experience, 39.95 was about all I'd pay for the 925. I don't regret the purchase for the price, but no way I would ever buy another Epson product unless they were giving it away. It really makes you wonder, why would Outpost be selling the printers for 39.95? I say it's because they keep coming back, and they also probably had a ton of refurbished units sitting in a warehouse that nobody wanted. So far the 925 has been okay, but my 750 was nothing but trouble. Heads were clogged contantly and required endless, ink wasting, head/jet cleaning. The 925 sounds exactly like my old 750, hinting little has changed. Lexmark has been solid, but is cheapy and noisy.I've been printing with ink jets for 10 years. Don't waste money on expensive inkjets. Find a deal on an HP photo printer for printing photos and color (125.00 or less). Then find a decent entry level laser printer for b/w printing (200.00). You may spend a little more up front, but the cost of printing b/w will be a fraction of ink jet cost, plus you'll get sharp text even on the cheapest paper sold.My Prefs for inkjet:HP - quiet, solid, reliable, very good quality printLexmark - loud, reliable, good quality printEpson (if free)- loud, unreliable, drinks ink, good quality printing (photos only), text is good but only using coated paper.
Reviewed by: ajdunkle

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: It has good printing results when using the premium photo.

Weaknesses: The LCD and the viewer attachement are very difficult to read. The 4x6 paper roll is difficult to load and when printing from the roller, the photos are curled. Too many to list.

Overall Evaluation: In summary, I hate this printer. It uses ink way too fast. It has too many conflicts with XP. The automatic paper cutter is not so automatic. It never cuts the paper where it is supposed to. Even after aligning the cutter over and over again it still won't cut the photo right. I have had this printer for about a year and I've only printed about 40 photos. Each printing experience has been terrible. There has always been some problem... I hate this printer so much that I don't even bother to use it anymore. I've decided to never listen to an instore sales rep ie; epson again.

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