Epson Stylus Color 440 Inkjet Printer

by Epson

Product Details

Product Manual [6.75mb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.5 x 11 inches ; 14.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 15 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00000J46J
• Item model number: C255001
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Epson is pleased to present the Stylus Color 440, the fun and productive inkjet printer that keeps an eye on the bottom line while giving home users plenty of eye-popping performance. The Epson Stylus Color 440 is the perfect printer for small office or home use. You can print anything from reports and resumes to photos and greetings cards.

With resolutions up to 720 x 720 dpi and Epson's Micro Piezo technology, you get amazingly realistic photographic images, vivid color graphics, and razor-sharp black text. Epson's specially formulated ink cartridges and wide variety of inkjet papers offer the greatest flexibility for getting the results you want.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Best in price point, but I still love my HP 832C much more, August 11, 2000

By 

Clifford Forster - See all my reviews

This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 440 Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

I had a Epson model 440 for about a year and a half, and when I bought it, it was about a $150 machine. Now where I definately would know that this printer is not worth nearly that in todays ever advanceing photo printing market I will tell you that its a fairly good value for its current price.

The Epson 440 always produced nice images for me. The color photo printouts I would make on photo stock paper were very nice. The features on this printer are nice too, the software is very easy to use and helps a great deal with many projects. I also like the feature that lets you know when the ink is about to run out, that is a big help.

Here is the bad news though, first of all the Epson 440 is pretty slow compaired to many of the HP printers I have used. Even the HP printers near the same price point are faster. My Epson 440 sometimes apeared to be tempermental too, not running some more complex print jobs. I do not think this was my main computer because I have been running an AMD athlon 800 MGHZ with 256 MB of ram on the motherboard, so I am sure the printer was limited. I run some of the same jobs without a hitch on my HP 832C which I find to be a fantastic printer. Last but not least is the Epson 440 is the loudest thing on mother earth, the thing rattles hums and shakes every time it squezes a print out which makes it difficult to get along with. On contrast most HP printers are very Quiet.

So here is my final scoop, if you are short on cash and need a decent printer to get you by, try the Epson 440, but if you have the money spend it on a higher model HP printer.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good for casual home users, bad for business users, July 10, 2000

By 

keviny01 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 440 Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

Despite costing [little] and being able to print in very good text and graphics quality, this printer is a disaster in ink management. The ink head would get clogged if the printer hasn't been used for over a day, and it would require self-cleaning, which takes 2 minutes. If you don't use the printer at least once a day, expect to wait 2 minutes for the printer to self-clean itself every time you turn it on, which could annoy the hell out of you. Moreover, the cleaning uses so much ink that you could run out of ink at an alarming speed -- after printing as few as 70 pages. For the most casual home users this may be tolerable. But business users, beware. The frequent clogging, cleaning, ink replacements that would occur with this printer would seriously affect the work of ANY business user.

I've used Epson Stylus Color model 400, 440, and 600, and they all had this problem. Avoid this line of printers altogether (which also includes model 800, and others).

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best printer for your money!!!!, August 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Epson Stylus Color 440 Inkjet Printer (Office Product)

The reviews say that you won't get spectacular print quality with plain paper, but I'm quite impressed with the consistent sharp and bold prints. Also the cartridges are cheap compared to other brands such as Lexmark. It avg's about 5 cents ppg for B & W and about 11 cents ppg for Color prints. It's not going to roll out fast like those nice laser printers but you're not going to fork out a chunk of change when you purchase this. When you buy cartridges, don't buy the Epson brand ones. You can get these generic brand equivalents off the net for half what Epson charges. If you really want a good deal on this printer, I would buy it soon.