Epson Stylus Color 680 Review

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Epson Stylus Color 680
1.4 stars
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abdnray's Review of Epson Stylus Color 680 Inkjet Printer

18th Feb 2006

Overall Rating

0.5 stars
  • Value for money
    0.5 stars
  • Ink Consumption
    Poor
  • Ease of Set Up
    4 stars
  • Time Inkjet Printer Owned
    Over 1 Year
  • Print Quality
    3 stars
Good Points

The printer can produce crisp, clear black & white or colour prints, even when using compatible inks cartridges.
Can produce A4 text and graphic prints with as little as a 3mm border all round.


Bad Points

Frequent paper feed problems.
Heavy ink usage.
Print head fouling of paper.
Very noisy.


General Comments

The Epson Stylus Color 680 has the potential to be a good printer! The print quality is clean and sharp, and the print program enables the user to expand the print area to as little as 3mm borders all round on an A4 or letter page size, which is good when photocopying books or texts. Alas, it is let down by frequent paper feed problems. It feeds multiple sheets of paper, and jams. The print cartridges need frequent charging, which prompts the feed rollers to turn in reverse, pulling previously printed media back into the printer, fouling print heads and smearing inks across rollers and printer parts. Multiple sheets of paper (two to six, or more, sheets at a time) are frequently drawn in by the printer causing jams or fouling of print heads.
Consequently, it is impossible to trust the printer to simply print as expected. It needs to be supervised for every sheet printed.

The printer consumes large volumes of ink, and operating costs are only reasonable when using compatible makes of ink cartridges. Cartridges (Epson or compatible makes) are 'chipped', therefore, they have to be discarded when empty.

The printer is noisy in operation, and is likely to disturb any other people in the same room.

Epson manufactured this printer for only a very brief time, and this shouldn't come as a surprise, given the frequent criticisms of its performance.

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