Epson Stylus Color 760 Ink-Jet Printer (PC/Mac)

by Epson

Product Details

Product Manual [2.62mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 11 inches ; 15.5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 16 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002JUZ1
• Item model number: C298001
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Epson Stylus Color 760 is ideal for small offices with big ideas. Your presentations, reports, newsletters, and digital photos will grab your audience with 1,440 dpi Photo Quality color images and crisp, laser-sharp black text.

With up to 7 ppm black and 6 ppm color print speeds, the ultrasmall 4 picoliter ink droplets will bring to life whatever you're printing--on all types of paper and transparent media. Whether you're running a PC or Macintosh, your work will shine, courtesy of the printer's Epson Perfect Picture Imaging System, which features Micro Piezo ink-jet technology, smooth AcuPhoto halftoning, and quick-drying inks that won't bleed or smudge.

The software package you'll get with the Epson Stylus Color 760 includes eFax, for easy retrieval of your faxes via e-mail, plus big-office photo editing from Polaroid PhotoMAX Pro and Arcsoft PhotoPrinter SE. You can even send away for additional popular titles, including Corel Ventura, Rand-McNally Route Planner, and Jack Nicklaus Golf.

The Epson Stylus Color 760 connects to a Macintosh computer using its built-in USB port or to a Windows PC using the USB port or standard parallel port. In addition, you can share the printer on an Ethernet network using the Axis 1440 print server (available as an option through Epson Accessories), specially designed for Epson printers.

From Winmag®

There's no question that you will appreciate Epson's new Stylus Color 760 and Stylus Color 860--both are quieter than previous models--a welcome change. Still, for those looking for little or no interruption in a workspace's peace and quiet, the HP DeskJet 970 Cse on our WinList wins by a mile.

I connected each printer via the USB port (parallel port connection is also provided) after I found a cable--it's not supplied. Set up was relatively painless (the only pain was due to a Windows 98 anomaly) and within minutes a test page emerged, clear and crisp.

Printing on plain paper with the 760, at the default speed setting, our twenty-page test document tested out at 4 pages per minute, slower than the 7 ppm maximum touted by the manufacturer. Characters were black with some artifacts due to the inexpensive paper. When printed on higher grade paper, output was almost laser quality. But timing significantly changed when I printed the same document at the highest quality setting--1.2 ppm, or sixteen minutes and twenty seconds. The trade off: Output was excellent.

A three-page mixed text and graphics document was produced at 3 ppm, with good color reproduction and the same clear, sharp text.

Printing a full page graphic on glossy paper took almost eleven minutes and the colors showed rich reds, bright yellows, and deep blues along with good shadow quality. Four by six digital camera photos printed in less than a minute and were good enough to share.

The Stylus Color 860 is faster, printing the twenty-page test document at 5.3 ppm, still slower than the manufacturer's "up to 9.5 ppm" claim. The three-page mixed text and graphics document printed at 3.5 ppm. Each document exhibited very good, solid black text; and the graphics were as expected, more than acceptable at the default settings. An 8 by 10 inch digital camera photo of a darling baby, using the speed setting, popped out in one minute thirty-five seconds--with no complaints from the parents.

The print driver for both the 760 and 860 provide plenty of choices for a variety of printing needs. The default settings will usually produce excellent results, but if you wish to adjust the printing mode you can select PhotoEnhance, designed for scanned or digitally captured images, including sepia and soft focus effects. Custom settings provide you an extensive level of control over printed output, including color management, print quality dpi settings (ranging from 180 x 180 to 1440 x 720 dpi), limited halftoning, sharpness and tone modifications; you can save your settings for later use. Reducing and enlarging an image to fit a specific size of media is quickly accomplished. The driver also tracks the ink levels in the cartridges.

In addition to selecting 2- and 4-up printing, you can select the order of the pages on the single sheet and decide if you want them framed or not. Four, nine or sixteen page poster layouts are available and it only takes a few mouse clicks to add cutting lines, overlapping panels or to omit panels in which no printing occurs. A watermark can be placed almost anywhere on the page and you can determine its text as well as its color, density and size. Unfortunately, there is no provision in the driver for two-sided (duplex) printing.

The printer handles up to 100 sheets of paper or 10 envelopes in the input tray, and approximately 30 sheets in the output tray. Printing on cards, transparencies, labels, iron-on transfers and banners is also available; there is no straight through paper path. The Stylus Color 760 weighs approximately 12.8 pounds, the 860, 13.2 pounds; and with their papers trays fully extended both measure 6.9 by 17.7 by 25.5 inches (HWD). Epson says its black cartridge life is around 900 pages for letter-type documents, and the color cartridge will print approximately 300 pages with 15% coverage. If you're planning to print a lot of photos or graphic images, you can be sure the cartridge life will be much less. The Stylus Color 860 has a smoke-colored cover so you can preview output.

The 760 and 860 come with a nice software bundle that includes Polaroid PhotoMax Pro SE, ArcSoft PhotoPrinter SE, e-fax and Epson Film Factory.

Though overall color quality was not as saturated and rich as the HP DeskJet 970Cse, at $199 after rebate the Epson 760 does deserve a place on our WinList as a first-rate printer for the economy minded. The Stylus Color 860, priced at $279, is faster and produces the same fine quality output.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Difficult out of the box, but worth the trouble, January 9, 2000

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Tony Caivano (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 760 Ink-Jet Printer (PC/Mac) (Office Product)

I bought the 760 after looking long and hard for a new printer that could make my digital photos look like real photos. Out of the box the printer balked at first -- FOLLOW THE SETUP INSTRUCTIONS PERFECTLY! I also considered the Photosmart 1100, but I didn't need an on-board card reader. The photo capabilities of the 760 are impressive. We can't tell the difference between the inkjet photos and the photoshop prints.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars can print nice pictures... when it works, December 13, 1999

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Bruce Smith (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 760 Ink-Jet Printer (PC/Mac) (Office Product)

I bought an Epson 760 with very high expecations, almost 2 months ago. I'm replacing it with an HP. The Epson 760 can print very nice photos, but I've found the software and the documentation too unreliable. The pretty pictures are not worth the hassles.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sharp and Quiet, August 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 760 Ink-Jet Printer (PC/Mac) (Office Product)

After My Loud HP ,My Broke down Lexmark, I finally found the printer I need . Sharp text easy to set up and very quiet.With a 98 dollar price tag plus a 30 dollar rebate 68 dollar net can't be beat for a printer of this quality .............