Customer Reviews

Stylus Photo RX500 All-In-One Printer, Scanner, Copier, Card Reader

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I bought this printer some months ago, and I only used a few times for printing, since I actually bought it for scanning. But after weeks I realized that every time I turned on the printer, even for scanning, the level of ink was decreasing. So this printer not only takes about a minute to get ready after you turn it on (wasting ink unnecessarily), but actually at the end it will tell you that the cartridges are empty when indeed you can hear that there is some ink in them. Once it tells you that one of the cartridges is empty...it won't print at all!!.

This is the only all in one printer I have ever owned and I bought it in 2004. The scanner part of the unit is good and works well for negatives and slides. The printer's color matching ability is good. The scanner refuses to work on any level if the ink is out and this is why I gave it a low review. Also, the ink cartridges don't last long and will ask to be replaced when there is enough ink for 3 or 4 more documents. Also, you don't have the option to print just black and white, they say this is because it keeps the color ink fresh. Also, the card reader doesn't read sdmc cards over 1mb. Overall, I am unsatisfied with this printer and wish I would have bought something better for this kind of money.

Bought this printer because it's supposed to work with all Paper Source products. Did 60 recipe cards and 75 wedding invitations (3 sheets an invite), no problem whatsoever - in brown. It worked beautifully with my Dell Computer, fed funny sized sheets (4x6 recipe cards) and printed faster than I could cut, which was all that mattered.