Epson Stylus Photo RX700

Epson Stylus RX700

The Epson Stylus Photo RX700 offers a great range of facilities and things that you can use it for. Everything that I have ever wanted to do whilst using my dads computer I have been able to use the printer with it. It's so easy to use. It can be used for pretty much anything and compatible with all applications so it can be used for school projects, web designing, and right down to photo printing. It can be used connected to your computer or you could use it as a standalone printer that allows you to copy documents in black and white or colour. It's your choice. The printer is very easy to use and will meet everybody's needs.

• Prints 20 pages per minute
• Holds all sizes of paper up to A4
• Has thee different trays that can be used for printing
• 2.5" fine colour LCD screen
• Memory card function
• Print from negative films from cameras
• Can scan at 3200 x 6400dpi
• Scan pages as big as A4
• Can scan to all destinations
• Windows and Macintosh compatible
• 450 x 418 x 236mm (w x d x h)
• 12.9kg

The printer actually has three different trays that you can place paper in and this makes it easier for the user if they regularly print on different size paper or different quality paper. Each tray can hold up to 150 sheets of economy paper. There are three trays and one of these includes a tray that you can use to print labels for DVD's and CD's. I found this little tray very useful.

As with most computers now you can slot memory cards into the printer. This cuts out all of the hassle with trying to plug in your USB cable for the camera or whatever you are using. This makes printing you pictures from your digital camera even easier.

The capabilities that this printer has when it is scanning is unbelievable. It can pic up on so much detail its quite incredible. When I say it can scan to all destinations I mean that you can scan an image and it will go to your memory card or to your negatives that you have in the printer. Other destinations include scan to your email, web and fax. This is all making the working day much easier and faster when you want to do things but cant really be bothered.

For a printer with all of these features I thought that it was very small and very light considering what it does. The measurements and weights are shown above. This printer as well as other recent Epson printers has 6 different ink cartridges. With the functionality of having 6 different cartridges it means that you will save a lot of money on ink cartridges. Each cartridge has a single colour and a slightly larger cartridge for the black as most printers do. With this it means that if you run out of one colour then you can just replace the ink. Whereas with some of the older printers if you ran out of one colour you may be throwing away half a cartridge full of ink because it was all in one. I have found that it is a lot easier to handle the ink as separate colours and I have also found that the ink is a lot cheaper.