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Epson Stylus Photo R290
By: Laiq Qureshi   |   Jun 07, 2008
  • 4
Good price
Vibrant colors
No banding
No ink spillage
Aligning cartridge takes some time

The Epson R290 is positioned at a very comfortable place on the shelves, both with regard to the customer's needs as well as Epson's own portfolio. This photo printer will not fail to satisfy you, especially after you hear the price. Epson is a strong contender in the printer market, and the R290's performance in our lab was as expected.


The printer is light, which helps should you require to move it every now and then. It's even lighter on your pocket, but more on that later. At 450 x 282 x 187 mm, there's little bulk. It weighs about 5.4Kg, which is not much; traditionally printers tend to be bigger and heavier. Anyway, once installed, printers are the last thing you would want to move around.

This printer doesn’t have a screen, but that’s all right (you won’t miss it). Cartridge installation is easy, there’s nothing to it. Only remember to install the driver CD before you plug the printer in. This way you know where to begin.

 

This is an A4 printer, which means it can manage 8x10, 5x7, 4x6, 3.5x5, 5x8, A6, A5, B5, Half Letter, Envelopes No 10, DL, C6, Letter and Legal. The device performed really well in our time tests, and normal text printouts were a breeze. In fact, the R290 did pretty well in printing color-intensive pictures as well.


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1. Aligning the heads is an automatic process performed by your printer, which most printers handle duly. If not you have to manually approach the settings and bring it up.

2. I do think Rs 11,500 is a good price for this printer, considering it prints faster and better than most photo printers we have tested. Usually, the rating is based on performance and features added together, but performance more so. The printer does perform to garner this rating. Read performance if you haven't yet!!

3. Photo Printers generally tend to weigh around 3.5-6 Kg. It's a cursory mention rather than necessary specific. You don't generally tend to go jogging with it.

4. Read point number two

WTFs/Come Agains: How about raising some legitimate doubts rather than just copy paste from the review. What is it you want clarified??
Laiq @ Jun 10, 2008
Actually, the reviewer meant that Rs. 11500 is a good price for a "decent PHOTO Printer" not just Colour Printer.
Talha @ Jun 07, 2008
Qureshi's first review? Editor sleeping?
Please elaborate on the "aligning cartridge takes some time".
The time quoted for printing colour image does not mention the size.
Are you sure 11500 is a "good price" for an inkjet colour printer?
What is the dpi?

Faulty assumptions:
"It weighs about 5.4Kg, which is not much; traditionally printers tend to be bigger and heavier."
"This photo printer will not fail to satisfy you, especially after you hear the price" (this would have sounded OK, if the price were half of what is stated).

WTFs/Come agains :
"This printer doesn’t have a screen, but that’s all right (you won’t miss it). ""Cartridge installation is easy, there’s nothing to it. "
"Only remember to install the driver CD before you plug the printer in. This way you know where to begin."
igmaer calicut @ Jun 07, 2008
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