Epson Stylus Photo R220 - Expert Reviews

Review summary: Technology: Ink Jet, Potential Use: All-purpose

Pros: Good output quality. Prints directly on printable optical discs. Photo print speed is very good for the price range.

Cons: Does not print directly from camera or PC cards. No memory card slots. Poor performance on our business applications suite.

Verdict: The Epson Stylus Photo R220 handles photos very well and is reasonably good at printing graphics, but it's a marginal choice for printing text.

Review summary: The Epson Stylus Photo series has been consistently impressive in recent years in producing high quality photo images, with a good range of both hardware and software extras to appeal to both casual photographers and intensive ...

Verdict: If you're on a limited budget and want to produce good quality photos on standard formats via your PC, then this is a reasonable bargain. The lack of memory card slots is a serious deficiency, though, and it would probably be wiser to spend more for ...

Verdict: So an ordinary text printer, a good quality photo printer and a very nice CD printer. Text print speeds were poor, I am not over concerned with image printing speeds - only quality - but they were good, and the CD image and text quality was ...

Verdict: The Epson Stylus Photo R220 printer has been priced very competitively at £69.99. You will need Windows 98SE or later with a Pentium III 1 GHz processor, 256MB of RAM and 550MB of hard disk space or Mac OS 9.1 and later with PowerPC G4 700MHz with ...

Review summary: Epson's latest inkjet photo printer is designed for home users looking to produce cost-effective photographs up to A4 in size, as well as personalise printable CDs and DVDs. It's far from being the most complete photo studio, but its ...