Epson Stylus CX6400 All-in-One Multifunction

 (81 customer reviews)

I was looking for a color printer, as I only had a b/w laser printer. Since I have owned digital cameras since 1999, it was time to get a photo quality printer.Performed exhaustive reseasrch. Conclusion 1 - device must have separate ink cartridges to conserve ink and expenses. That ruled out anything by HP.I really wanted an awesome photo printer to go with my Canon S400 Elph (4 megapixel) camera. There are dozens of great photo printers with separate ink cartridges. I was able to narrow my finalists to Canon and Epson.I loved the Epson R300M, because it had a 6-ink system, and it could print directly on white CD-R discs with it's special tray. It also had phenomenal quality. Canon had a couple that competed nicely in quality and price, but in the end, the Epson had a slight edge.Knowing I could get a great photo printer a a reasonable cost, I started looking for other nice features to narrow the field. The Epson R300M delivered awesome quality photo prints at the...Read more

For those who can't afford the table space for separate machines for scanning, copying, and printing, this item is a very good solution, if not perhaps quite as small as a pin-head. Though considerably larger than a standard ink-jet printer, it's still small enough to fit on most computer tables, and considerably smaller than what three separate machines would occupy. The assembly and installation instructions were adequate to the task, much better than most instruction books that are poor translations of Japanese or Chinese. Assembly itself took about five minutes, consisting of mounting a couple of page guides/holders, removing some shipping tape, and installing the ink cartridges. The included software installation went without any hitches on my XP machine, and the operating system recognized the new USB device as soon as it was plugged in (NOTE: don't plug in the USB cable till told to do so in the installation instructions). Having the printer connected via USB is quite an...Read more

The quality of printing is quite good - at least I didn't have any problem. The delay before it starts to print is a few seconds but I can live with it. It has four separate cartridges (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) and it's supposed to help to preserve the ink. I thought that my old HP laser color printer with one cartridge has actually lasted a little longer. This printer has interface for all major memory cards and allows to print directly from them without PC involved - which could come very handy. The buttons and menus on the printer itself could be more straightforward though. I was very impressed with the software that comes with this device. It really does a great job of self diagnostic and eliminating a problem. I had one of cartridges dirty (I didn't know about this at the time). The software not only found the problem but also cleaned the head. All this without me even opening the cover. All in all, it's a very good printer and copier for the price with the bonus of...Read more