...We bought our Epson Stylus C62 printer for £49.95 and headed home. Once unpacked, we followed the clear instructions which were both pictorial and the written word so even an idiot like me could understand it. (Husband thinking once it’s running I can get back to the TV and have some peace ... Read review
Advantages: Clear print and accurate colour photos can be printed Disadvantages: Cartridges are expensive and a bit noisy
...an office situation.We bought our Epson Stylus C62 printer for £49.95 and headed home. Once unpacked, we followed the clear instructions which were both pictorial and the written word so even an idiot like me could understand it. (Husband thinking once it’s running I can get back to the TV and have some peace and quiet.)
VITAL STASTISTICS
It measures about 48cm x 26cm x 18 high, and weighs according to my kitchen scales about ... ...times, but it doesn’t seem ready to join the place in the sky for printers, but it’s not got nice rounded contours or feels as smooth as a babies bum when I run my hand over it! So my Epson Stylus is my new baby now.
Our HP printer was playing up, it wouldn't play with me when I wanted to play, and if I needed things printed urgently it would not co-operate so I was getting STRESSED! So that meant my husband was STRESSED as I expected him to be able to sort it out there and then in the middle of him watching some important Sport programme. The easiest solution in his mind was buy a new printer.
We walked around stores, picked up leaflets, compared results of printing photos etc. We wanted a good printer for typed work and letters, but also for coloured items and for photos as we sometimes print out our digital photos to frame or send relatives. We needed something to fit on the lower shelf of the computer table as the HP one had done. I didn't want to pay a huge amount of cash for something which although it is used most days, it's only for a small amount of printing not like in an office situation.We bought our Epson Stylus C62 printer for £49.95 and headed home. Once unpacked, we followed the clear instructions which were both pictorial and the written word so even an idiot like me could understand it. (Husband thinking once it’s running I can get back to the TV and have some peace and quiet.)
VITAL STASTISTICS It measures about 48cm x 26cm x 18 high, and weighs according to my kitchen scales about 3.5kg – it certainly isn’t too heavy to lift in and out from under the table if I need to for the occasional dusting! There is just room for the smoky grey lid to lift to change the cartridges. It is smooth grey plastic and well rounded, with contrasting dark grey base which has nice indentations to make it easy to grip when lifting. The paper tray is in dark grey, as is the left edge paper guide which has a locking tab. This allows you to use really small pieces of paper or card for printing and hold it straight. The front output tray is edged in dark grey with a shaped indent to make it easy to pull down. In other words it is grey, smooth and rounded, sounds boring but I love it! The two cables which connect to the power and the computer go into the back of the machine. There are 3 buttons on the top left hand side, ON/OFF, which shows green when on, next flashes red when there is a problem with either ink or paper, and the third is a solid button, used for changing the cartridges.
OK so you’re saying typical woman, probably looks at the colour of the car when she buys it and not bothers what is under the engine! Well that is very true as I replaced one Punto for another, and I just had to pick the colour, but I did peek underneath the bonnet to make sure all its bits were there! And even looked in the boot to check tools and spare wheel. I apologise and must get back to my printer.
PRINTER SOFTWARE
Once the printer was connected to the power and the computer, and I had checked it was turned off, the next stage was to insert the CD into the CD ROM drive. A dialogue box appeared and all I did was click on Install software, the instructions were easy to follow and tell you how to insert the cartridges. Care is needed not to touch the chip at the back of the cartridges, once installed the printer begins “ ink charging” this is a bit noisy, but is normal and when the green light on top stops flashing, it is completed. The initial ink charging uses quite a lot of the ink in the cartridges which are supplied but is necessary to produce high quality work.
PRINTING
You have to follow instructions for a test page to check colours and set it for printing accurately, this is all easy to follow on screen instructions. I am really happy with the speed as it will print 14 pages per minute in black ink, a few less in colour, but it doesn’t smudge as happened with our HP printer as the ink is quick drying. Not being very technically minded I’m not sure if 5760dpi is good, but it was higher than some printers we looked at (that is dots per inch for those even less knowledgeable than me!) Every time I print, a box comes up showing me how much ink is left, a really useful piece of information so there is never a problem running out as long as you remember to buy a replacement as you seeing it getting low. The integral memory chip is a clever little thing. The cartridges are Black TO40 and Colour TO41. There is a pop up box to select how you want to print.
The choices are very good, especially for printing photos. You can choose from:- 1. Draft 2. Text 3. Text and Image 4. Photo 5. Best Photo
Choice of size and type of paper:- 1. Plain 2. 360dpi Ink jet 3. Matte Heavyweight 4. Photo paper 5. Premium Glossy Paper 6. Photo Quality Glossy Film 7. Ink Jet transparencies
There is also a choice of Landscape or Portrait and an Advanced level for more complicated printing. There is a button to click for Technical on-line support, on another page there is different layouts and a watermark facility. It is possible to rotate mirror image, minimise the margins, centre the printing, choose number of copies and even collate. On the Maintenance page, there is a section on head cleaning, nozzle check, print head alignment and status of ink levels. So should you have any problems this will sort things out for you. (HOPEFULLY!)
I print a lot of bits and pieces for my hobby of making cards so the colour is used a lot, it’s hard to say how long a cartridge lasts because it depends on what you are printing and the quality, but I think it is good value and I am very pleased with the results, photos are clear and sharp and people have been surprised that I have actually printed them myself. Perhaps they are surprised that I have printed them, doubting my ability and not the printer! Plain text looks really good and I have always been pleased with results for business letters. Cartridges cost about £28 for black and slightly less for colour depending where you buy them. It does not like cheap copies, believe me, I tried and it caused me lots of problems! We have a Cartridge World who refill them and as they use the correct cartridge this works and costs £26 for one of each. They results are great. I think we got a good deal in Comet as I've seen it for nearer £60 in some places on line.
It does make a quite noise sometimes, and it can make the computer table move a bit if it’s doing something with a lot of colour in! So I don’t STRESS my husband as much now I’ve got the new printer, I just annoy him with the noise printing so many things out!
PS The HP is relegated to the spare room with our old computer, it still works, though reluctantly at times, but it doesn’t seem ready to join the place in the sky for printers, but it’s not got nice rounded contours or feels as smooth as a babies bum when I run my hand over it! So my Epson Stylus is my new baby now.
Advantages: Good quality prints, low ink consumption Disadvantages: Slightly noisy & fairly slow prints
The Epson C62 INKJET printer is by far the best printer I have ever had. However, I only mainly use my printer for printing out documents and spreadsheets etc, and I don’t know whether it is the best printer out there for printing out photographs.
I have previously had a Xerox printer, and found out that it consumed ink very quickly, its print quality was very poor, and the most annoying thing: It made a hell of a lot of noise! Whenever I turned ... ...I have found the Epson C62 printer to be quite the opposite of this.
When I purchased my laptop from Time (Computer World), I got a special offer where I could buy the Epson C62 printer at half price for £40 (The RRP therefore being £80).
The Printer
The Epson C62 is fairly lightweight in comparison with other printers, and it is also pleasing on the eye as its smooth curves and attractive grey colour (well not most grey colours are attractive, ...
Dan_BlackburnRovers 20.08.2003
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Advantages: Cheap running costs, cheap and cheerful Disadvantages: Noisy little thing, feels cheap
...go far wrong with the Epson C62.
Now, I’m a bloke who favours HP printers when it comes down to it, I prefer them for their print quality, put an Epson print next to a HP print on normal mode on roughly the same priced printers and I bet the HP will win hands down every time in terms of print and colour quality. Also the HP’s sharpness cannot be matched by the Epson. However, when it comes to buying those all elusive ink cartridges you will soon ... ...that I recently purchased 11 Epson C62’s for general printing (prescriptions and patient leaflets) for a local surgery. They already had a few HP’s and were getting increasingly worried about their ink cartridge bills! For printing off prescriptions and patient leaflets on standard photocopy paper, the C62 fitted the bill perfectly, and it will for most of your home printing needs too. Available for £69.99 on Amazon this printer isn’t on the cheapest ...
GR-Design 31.03.2003
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Advantages: Prints documents Disadvantages: Speed and quality
What is it that youy want out of an inkjet printer? - something that prints good quality prints fairly quickly and doing this quietly. After buying this model for around £60, this is what i expected, even if it was not absolutely perfect, being relatively cheap.
It is a basic inkjet printer that connects to your computer via. a USB connection. There are 2 ink cartridge slots, one for colour and one for black and white. This is very simple but it ... ...600 pages and the colour should last for 300 pages. This is promising but its simplicity in design and features are real indicators of what i believe is a poor machine.
The first problem which i have found is that the print speed is extremely slow. Fow black & white the speed is meant to be 14 ppm (pages per minute) and for colour it is supposed to be 13.9 ppm. This is probarbly true if it printed continually but it always seems to stall mid way ...
MVP017 27.07.2007
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Advantages: fast, quality prints, photos and documents, the ink lasts and it is very cheap Disadvantages: comes with no USB cables and printer leads and can be a bit noisy
...So when I saw the Epson Stylus C62 the first thing that caught my eye was the very low price. Under £70 and a free delivery, nice appearance and then I was blown away by its many features.
Far too many that you would have normaly expected from a cheap printer.
Epson Stylus C62 is an inkjet colour printer with a 5760 optimised dpi print resolution. It is great for printing letters, invitations, greeting cards, leaflets and newsletters to more sophisticated ... ...if you have Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP and recent Apple Macs and it includes support for the Universal Serial Flexible Output And it is fast! The first time we used it we were blown away by the speed, being living till then in the stone age of printing….it kinda seemed to ‘spit out’ the document. It is incredibly fast and the quality of the prints is excellent. Apparently it’s 14ppm for black and 13.9ppm for colour output which ...
Kirki 19.06.2003
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Advantages: Low Price - Photo Quality Disadvantages: Very Temperamental - No Edge-to-edge printing
...last 10 years, and the Epson Stylus C62 is my 4th. I decided I wanted a photo quality printer, but was on a budget and was looking to pay under £70. I wanted something that would give me decent quality photographs, but that could handle all my other printing requirements (general documents, letters etc).
Although about 18 months old now, at the time of purchase it was considered a compact model and is certainly good if you are limited on space. ... ...Use anything but the expensive Epson black and colour cartridges and you are in for nothing but poor prints and clogged print heads. Even with Epson cartridges I have had problems. If you are using anything but standard printer paper, again, the printer often gets confused and thinks there is either a paper jam or that there is no paper in there - using even very thin cardboard or photo paper causes these problems, things that a modern printer should ...
wellybooty 31.05.2005
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