Epson Stylus CX5200 All-in-One Multifunction

I've had this printer for about 3 weeks and am extremely pleased. I've used it for text printing, copying, scanning and, more recently, photo printing. The performance has been terrific - I printed out an 8x10 photo that looks comparable to one produced by a portrait studio. For photo printing, it is critical to take the picture at high resolution, and to ensure that the printer is set to the proper settings (e.g. the "best photo" setting, photo paper setting, and several others.). While I've read reviews on other sites that complain about photo quality printing on this model, I think that following these guidelines and using good photo quality paper ensures good quality printing. Also, the printer does not seem to drink up ink cartidges the way others are reputed to, and has the convenience (and economy) of allowing you to replace separate color ink cartridges.

As a PC & Mac User, I haved used the Epson CX5200 for 6 months now and here's the info every ready needs to know about this printer....

1. Ease of Setup and Use. Just follow the instruction (yes fellow men, that means follow them to the tee!) and you'll be up in no time.

2. Print Quality. 9 out of 10. Good printing for Photo's but get the photo paper if you want to take advantage of the great pictures for home or friends.

3. Copy / Scan / Print & Fax (yes, you can fax). Copying a document is too easy as well as scanning. Faxing, is just as easy. If you have an internal modem (pc or mac), then you too can fax. Just push the scan button on the CX5200 and the software automatically takes you through the rest.

Overall, you can network this printer as well and this out performs most of the HP series (PSC 2100 2200 7150 7350 7550). Avoid the CX3200 and get this one...5280 x 1440 print quality, who can go wrong.

After reading the reviews of Epson c82 and learning about Epson's durabrite ink technology, I ordered this printer from Amanzon.com.
This printer seems to be big brother of C82 with multifunction capabilities. Compared to other multi function printers on the market, like HPs PSC 750/2210, this unit is pretty heavy and takes more desk space. But i just liked its looks on the first sight - it has extremely well build grey colored plastic exterior, and looks more like a small laser printer.
Setting it up was easy, plugged to power supply, popped in the 4 ink catridges, ran the software CD, followed the instructions, connected the USB line and in 7-10 minutes it printed the first test page. The page was printed extremely fast, but i wanted to experiment more. I put my favourite picture in the scanner and selected the color copy button and in less than 2 minutes it printed a very close copy of the picture. I had used ordinary paper for printing the picture and observed the...Read more