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EPSON STYLUS PHOTO RX600 INKJET
PRINTER.

Epson Stylus Photo RX600 inkjet printer
Product description
The Epson RX600 can act like a colour (or B&W)
photocopier. The Epson can print pictures from prints, negatives
or any of the standard digital media cards. You can adjust the images
contrast, brightness saturation and sharpness as well as select
printing with additional information such as the shooting date.
The front panel contains a colour LCD panel which can be tilted
to suit your viewing angle and is used to display photos and menu
options. The rest of the front is taken up with a number of buttons
for accessing the various functions. Underneath the panel is the
card reader which can handle most common card formats. We tested
it with 128Mb and 256Mb Compact Flash cards and it worked fine.
The RX600 also allows scans to be made to a memory card if desired.
Epson Stylus Photo RX600
An unusual feature is a front mounted USB socket. This allows you
to connect external devices such as CD writers, hard drives or ZIP
drives which can be used to archive images.
Scanning is done at a maximum of 2400dpi. We scanned in several
photos, magazine pages and slides (the latter at the full 2400dpi)
and founds the results to be very good indeed. The scanner also
has dust and scratch removal implemented via software. A dedicated
slide scanner would produce better images but for all but the most
demanding, the RX600 will produce pleasing results.
Special Features
A neat trick is the ability to produce contact sheets from a memory
card or other source which you can then mark with a pen to indicate
the ones you want. When the contact sheet is placed on the scanner,
the RX600 uses the pen marks to work out which prints to make. Very
funky and very useful indeed.
Running costs ought to be reduced by the use of six separate ink
cartridges. Rather than throw away a whole colour cartridge if just
one colour has run out, you only have to replace a single colour.
You can happily print out all those pictures with blue skies without
worrying so much.
The Epson RX600 supports an optional Bluetooth adaptor as an additional
connectivity option. Photographers will appreciate the PictBridge
and USB DIRECT-PRINT support, assuming the use of a compatible camera.
We used a Canon EOS 300D digital SLR in our tests and tried prints
with and without these modes being enabled and the results were
marginally superior when enabled.
Quality
As noted, scanning is very good and reasonably quick although the
adaptor only allows for 4 slides or 8 negatives at a time. Epson
really ought to have included an 8 slide adaptor; after all its
just a plastic sheet. When scanning you can go with either an automatic
mode which identifies the type of document or film being scanned
or a more manual mode with lots of additional adjustment options.
The print resolution of 5760dpi combined with the 6 separate ink
cartridges produces very good photo prints. Epson claim longer lasting
prints with their new ink formulations. However, one of the benefits
of home printing is the ease of running off another copy if a picture
starts to get a bit sun-bleached.
You can of course use it for normal printing duties. We tried a
few web pages and some documents and they all looked fine although
all printing could have been faster. Canon has recently raised the
bar in ink-jet print speeds and Epson have a bit of catching up
to do here. The paper tray at the back can hold a good sized stack
of paper.
Software
The RX600 comes with a fistful of software titles. As well as Epsons
integrated software for managing scanning/copying/printing tasks,
you also get ArcSoft PhotoImpression and Greeting Card Creator,
ABBYY Finereader OCR and more.
Conclusion
Photographers are clearly the target market. If you want an all
in one unit that covers all your scanning, copying, printing and
archival needs then the Epson RX600 is the unit for you. The quality
of printing and scanning are both top notch and the ability to do
so much without going near a PC or Mac is commendable. For extra
peace of mind an extended 3 year warranty is available. This is
one piece of kit Im genuinely sorry to see going back to the
manufacturer now the review is finished.
Printer inkjet cartridges for this Epson inkjet printer
are available in compatible form from the leading UK manufacturer
of Epson compatible inkjet printer cartridges, which can be used
in the Epson stylus RX600 inkjet printers from Epson. The Jettec
equivalent to the T048340 Epson magenta High capacity inkjet printer
cartridge is E92M. This can be found by searching for the Epson
OEM reference T048340 or printer model Epson Stylus RX600 inkjet
printer.
Epson Stylus T048340 Epson compatible Jettec
High capacity magenta inkjet printer cartridge
The Epson printer inkjet cartridge T048340 for use in the Epson
RX600 Stylus inkjet printer is available in the Jettec compatible
brand, which can be used in a wide range of Epson inkjet printers.
Jettec offer a wide range of compatible Epson inkjet cartridges,
which offer the customer 30% more ink compared to the Epson original
inkjet printer cartridge T048340.
On offer is a high quality Jettec compatible Epson magenta high capacity
inkjet cartridge compatible with the Epson Stylus RX600 Colour inkjet
Printers.
Epson OEM reference:T048340
Jettec OEM reference:E92M
Also used in Epson stylus Photo R200, Epson stylus Photo R300,
Epson Stylus Photo RX500, Epson Stylus Photo RX600.
We have supplies for all Epson Stylus inkjet printers - if you
would like to view compatible range of Epson inkjet printer cartridges,
please use our product finder on our website.
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