I won't go into a lot of detail about the physical aspects of the printer as these are covered in great detail by other reviews.
I've had this printer for a year now and it is a very reliable printer with good quality prints for both normal text documents and photographs. For anyone buying a printer, be wary of the speeds quoted for printing in colour. The print speeds quoted are for printing normal text pages. When you print photographs, the printer has to slow down dramatically to give the ink time to dry on the glossy paper. An A4 page can take 10-15 minutes to print a photograph but it's worth the wait as the quality is excellent.
This printer has what is known as "chipped" cartridges which means they have circuitry built into them which supposedly allows the remaining ink to be measured accurately. This also means that Epson can charge a lot more for the cartridges. It also makes it difficult for cartridges to be refilled as special equipment is required to reset the chips.
This printer has an improvement which was an annoyance on the earlier C42. When the C42 cartridges decided they were empty the printer refused to print. The C62 shows the cartridges as being empty but will allow you to carry on printing until the cartridges are really empty.
I've tried several makes of third party cartridges from good quality manufacturers but found that the printer does not like them. Epson's printer driver gives you a warning when you replace a cartridge with a non Epson original. I've had one third party cartridge that emptied after 2 weeks and printing less than 10 pages. The printer seems to simply drain the ink into the printer. Strangely when I inserted an Epson original cartridge, the printer worked perfectly.
I've had several Epson printers and they have all disliked third party cartridges which makes these printers very expensive to run.
To summarise, this is a good printer but the running costs can be very high.
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Liked your review. I have this printer and use it a great deal for digital photos. It does have a great quality output, but I agree with you in that it does print rather slowly, slower than I had anticipated. The ink cartridges are expensive (£28.00 for black and slighly less for colour). I do buy third party cartridges from a website called WWW.Cartex.co.uk you may want to check out the prices? I would say out of 30 cartridges I've used, I did have about 4 which were duff, but on the whole I've not had problems. As I said, I do alot of digital photography/printing and I couldn't afford to buy Epson cartridges for this. If they were half their price then I would. Tanisha :)
jedi_kickass 23.02.2004 20:36
I think the printer is good. Nice op. jedi_kickass ( ' _ ' )
magicloudz 29.12.2003 18:12
Sounds like some really anti-competitive technology inside that printer!:) -Jon
Advantages: Extremely fast for an inkjet, taking into account its low price! Disadvantages: In order to work at an optimum standard regular printing is required
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