Customer Reviews

Epson C40UX Inkjet Printer

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(12)

 

 

Its lightweight, good looking, pretty fast, and prints great photos. Its USB connection is quite fast, its got a convenient paper input, paper output tray. The software supplied is great,especially for photos. Doesnt occupy too much of space. Simple to operate with just two buttons. I feel its pretty good for personal use in home or for students.
But it does make I think more amount of noise. This could have been better done with.
I have always liked Epson printers because they use a differnt technology than thermal inkjet printers, they give better resolution and ink dries quicker. the cartridges are also cheaper than HP. After all, in the long run, the cartridge cost matters much more than the initial cost of the printer.
On the whole, I feel its a winner with the 49.99 dollar price tag right now with the rebate. But yeah, as with most printers, it doesnt ship with a USB cable. But it includes both black and color ink cartridges.

Just purchased the Epson C40UX printer to replace a Lexmark that stopped working. I was on a budget and after doing some research decided to try the C40UX at only [price]! What a pleasant surprise! This machine prints flawlessly! Pros: nice size (not too big a machine); beautiful quality text and graphics; excellent low price! Cons: Very noisy; Black inktank is too small (will probably require many replacements if you do alot of printing); also, color cartridge is combined (separate ink tanks are more economical in my opinion).

Maximum value and quality for the money. Print quality approaching that of printers costing three times as much.
Noisy operation, but who cares! Added bonus is the availability of inexpensive refill cartridges.

Need a Budget printer?? Buy this one!!!

If you're looking at "low-end" printers, the choices come down to Canon, HP and Epson. I currently have all 3, and the C40 is my favorite. The Canon simply isn't made as rugged as the other two. The HP is the quietest, smoothest and most dependable printer due to its bottom-feed system but at a considerable cost in speed. The Epson is dependable enough, and when it misfeeds or jams, it's no big deal to fix the problem. And the noise is a small trade-off, in my opinion, for both the Epson's outstanding print quality and speed.

I suspect that some of the problems expressed by other owners are related to having the machine at its slowest setting and to the use of inferior "clone" cartridges. The reason these machines are so cheap is that the manufacturers make their profit in the sale of ink cartridges. The reason they sell so many of those costly ink cartridges, as many of us have discovered, is that many of the imitations not only perform poorly (sometimes not at all) but can gum up your printhead. Leaving a machine idle for an extended period of time will also lead to spotty quality. Still, I've always been able to restore the machine back to its original sharpness and consistency through several cleaning cycles using an Epson cartridge.

This is a good printer. It's not expensive and it does the job just great. I needed quickly a printer to print several hundred pages and this one was a good choice. I finished a whole black cartridge for one day (about 200 pages for the first one and then close to 300 for subsequent ones), but I am very happy with final result - good quality at reasonable price.

The printer is small, easy to use, software is OK - a good choice

For fifty dollars , this is an excellent printer. It is a bit louder than other printers, but the print quality is outstanding for the price range, if you need a printer to print mainly text documents black and in color , this is the printer for you.

Looking at the printer, it was very small and i kept wondering if it was a good buy. Just yesterday night i had to print 45 pages in the manner of 42 then 3 pages. It started work and kept working while my computer was stilling processing the last 3 pages the 42 were out. The print quality is good, no paper jams, yes it is a little powerhouse.

Great little printer. Started printing pic's right out of the box exelent resolution!!! And the usb conection makes it very convinient.

I changed from a Canon 4200sp to the Epson stylus c41ux and I was very impressed with it's ease of installation and print quality. Great value!!

I recieved this printer with My new Mac. I didn't expect much from it because it was free, but I was very supprised at the quality prints I got after fiddeling around in the print options. I am a first year graphic design major so this will help me out alot because i will be doing a ton of printing. no problems installing. It is very noisy and a couple of times it told me that there was a paper jam when there actually wasn't, no big deal. Overall I am happy and would have paid [...] for this if it had not been free.