Epson Stylus C42 UX Inkjet Printer

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Summary: Epson quality-Bargain Price
Review: I'm a long time Epson user and when I needed a spare for home, I picked this little jewel. Yes, it's noisier and a bit slower than more expensive models...but it is easy to set up, works well with both Windows and Mac., is dependable and offers pretty good print quality. For the money, it can't be beat.

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Summary: God! Nightmare to have this printer :(
Review: I'm a software engineer and I know printers are a primary pain point of computer users. But for this one and brand name Epson, I will never forget to avoid.

The black ink comes with this printer only printered about 10 pages before empty. Then I thought it's bad OEM ink and bought a new one. But this time it is similar. Now I stuck with several empty black inks, full color inks and a stupid heavy bulky printer and find out refill does not work either because Epson did some trick to this model.

I will smash this thing instead of give/sell to other people and cause more pain.

One more bad thing is: It leaks electric!!! My hands are stinged while I tried to clean the leaking ink.


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Summary: Good, but not great quality.
Review: It gets the job done. but the picture is not great.

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Summary: very poor printer-- don't be taken in by the bargain price!
Review: So I got this printer b/c I'm a college student and my free dell canon printer broke down-- i needed something [reasonable]. SO I found this printer, very [reasonable]. It worked fine but the print quality gets very poor after a week or so-- ask anyone who had it for more than a month. Sure it's a great printer for that month but then printing gets horrible. I mean really poor. It can get very annoying because you have to clean the head constantly (as if it were an old printer) and print and re-print things until you get a decent copy. Ink is smeared on the copy, etc. I know many people who bought this printer b/c it's so[reasonable]-- they all say, it was good at first (considering the price) but it's horrible now. Please, please do yourself a favor and don't worry about price when it comes to printers. Invest a little more, I know i wish i did!

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Summary: Don't buy this printer!
Review: The ink cartridges for this printer are extremely small and are expensive for the amount of printing they can do. Also, if the colour cartridge is out it will not let you print with black ink, even if black is full. In other workds, both cartridges need to have ink in order to print. This has been a very frustrating purchase.

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Summary: Don't buy this printer!
Review: The ink cartridges for this printer are extremely small and are expensive for the amount of printing they can do. Also, if the colour cartridge is out it will not let you print with black ink, even if black is full. In other workds, both cartridges need to have ink in order to print. This has been a very frustrating purchase.

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Summary: Great printer for the price
Review: The physical set-up was fast and easy, the software flawlessly installed in Windows XP. One minor flaw in the instructions: they said insert the CD and click NEXT, but inserting the CD caused the software to "autorun," and I didn't have to click anything. Print quality is fine. The printer itself is attractively designed. I recommend this printer to anyone who does not need high-speed printing.
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Summary: Epson C42 Ux
Review: This is without a doubt the worst printer ever made.It clogs up easily after just printing a few pages,,and the results are black lines,and black dots.Epson tech support says you need to clean the nozzle.It wastes a lot of ink to clear up the problem,and it would not take too long before the problem comes back.Epson has replaced this printer for me three times.The problems are the same from unit to unit.It uses up black ink like crazy during normal use,making it really one of the most expensive inks around based on the small cartridge size.It is noisy,and slow.I can live with that,but the quality of the printing is the pits.I am going to toss this printer out soon.No more Epson products for me.The model should be more accurately labeled the C-42 SUX

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Summary: terrible
Review: This printer did not work well at all for me. It goes through ink cartridges about every fifty pages. I have had my printer for about a year, and have only used it a few times. Last week when I turned it on, I heard plastic crunching, and as it turns out, a bunch of the plastic parts inside the printer broke off for no apparent reason. It does not work at all now, so I have to buy a new printer, and it definately won't be an Epson.

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Summary: Very good printer
Review: This printer has excellent photo quality printing capability. The photos I printed from this printer were of a quality akin to prints from a high quality lab. Given, the tiny price and wonderful capabilities of this printer, i recommend it strongly. Yes the printer heads need cleaning periodically, but thats cool, because the cleaing process is automated. Simply clicking the Maintenance button, cleans the printer head in a matter of 60 seconds or less.