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| Print Quality | 6.3/10 |
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| Ease of Set Up | 7.1/10 |
| Value for Money | 5.9/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 5.1/10 |
| Overall Rating | 5.8/10 |
Full review by
Guest.
on 5th Aug 2008
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User Rating : 4
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Good Points: It was small and compact.
Bad Points: Ink ran out quickly.Slow in printing.I was used to a laser printer.
General comments: I purchased this Epson C42 printer for home use. I found that the ink cartridges ran out very quickly and cost a lot to replace. I tended to use my printer quite a bit at home and was amazed at how quickly I was going through the ink. I use Hewlett Packard Laserjet 4 printer. It's great. The only thing it is black and white only. When it is of no longer use I will invest in a colour/black/white printer, with perhaps a scanner, photocopier, but at the moment it's fine.
Guest.'s review and ratings | 111 words
Review by
aliiiliii
on 4th Mar 2008
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User Rating : 10
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Epson C42 Plus is an excellent printer in my opinion as its great value for money, intact the only bad thing I have to say about it is the shape and size as I am slightly annoyed. However still recommend this Epson printer.
aliiiliii's full review | 43 words
Review by
stonedeusx
on 18th Jul 2007
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User Rating : 9
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Good purchase, especially for the price.
stonedeusx's full review | 54 words
Review by
fordfiesta9
on 23rd Sep 2006
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User Rating : 8
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Great for everyday use.
Really cheap on ink cartridges (only £10 for 5 back and 5 colour).
It is probably the best out there for general home use.
fordfiesta9's full review | 49 words
Review by
Balthazar
on 16th Jun 2006
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Simply rubbish. I really do hope the Epson C42 Plus are no longer for sale but, just in case anybody spots one on e-bay for a quid... don't bother, it's not worth paying even that much.
In the three years I have owned this excuse of a printer I have tried to print out a photo just once. It was so poor I felt that trying again would be too depressing for words.
Fortunately I only really bought it for printing the occasional bit of text. Even so I have spent many times the original cost of the p ...
Balthazar's full review | 272 words
Review by
eric01
on 27th May 2005
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User Rating : 9
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Epson C42 Plus: I am thinking that some of the people who had bad results on there printing had got one of the following wrong. 1 Paper. 2 Ink source. 3 Settings. 4 Resolution of camera. I have a Fuji 3800 at 3.1 mega pixels set on 3.1 normal.
eric01's full review | 59 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
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on 12th Apr 2005
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User Rating : 8
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I Can certainly recommend the Epson C42 Plus printer for both text and photograph prints.
Jim Ballantyne's full review | 61 words
Review by
Jon0781
on 4th Feb 2005
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User Rating : 6
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I have had a Epson C42ux now for 3 years and it is now starting to break, it is good if you want a fairly cheap printer for simple stuff. DO NOT BUY THIS PRINTER FOR PRINTING PHOTOS BECAUSE IT IS RUBBISH FOR THAT!!!
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Review by
lavyrnia
on 18th Nov 2004
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I bought the Epson C42 Plus printer quite cheap alongside a new laptop and scanner, and thank god I hadn't paid much for it. It was retailing at around £70 but it wasn't even worth the £25 I paid.
Right from the start the quality has been questionable - and I have only had one printer before and am not exactly an expert but I could still notice it - the white lines cutting through my text, the pink tint to photographs and so on.
Not to mention the way that it will monitor your ...
lavyrnia's full review | 207 words
Review by
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on 3rd Nov 2004
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I'd like to revisit my earlier review of the Epson C42 Plus Inkjet Printer with the benefit of hindsight after using this excuse for a printer for over a year. When I first purchased the printer, I gave it a '7' because of the low purchase price and 'good for the money' print quality. However, this initial enthusiasm didn't take long to wear off. But where to begin?...
I've already mentioned the ridiculous 'intellichip' cartridge system in my earlier review. This effectively 'guesses' whe ...
madra's full review | 433 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
cheese lizard
on 24th Apr 2004
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User Rating : 9
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I purchased this Epson C42 Plus Inkjet Printer from PC World for about £35 at least two year ago, it was a customer return, new in the box with the demo cartridges.
In all this time it has served me well, I have not had any problems with it whatsoever.
Inkrite replacement cartridges are all I use in this printer. They cost a fraction of the price of Epson cartridges.
cheese lizard's full review | 93 words
Review by
pixie.
on 6th Jul 2003
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With having a digital camera I bought the Epson c42 so that I could print good photo's. I have always owned an epson printer and have been very pleased with the finished results but this c42 printer turned out to be a lemon. The print quality is extremely dull even on enhanced using epson ink, the printer is very slow and very noisey. I don't know if I just got a bad one but I would not recomened the c42 to anyone, (my other printer is a c62 and this is a brilliant printer)
pixie.'s full review | 94 words
Review by
madra.
on 4th Jun 2003
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User Rating : 7
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print quality for the Epson C42 Plus is on a par with other home/office inkjets. nothing spectacular by today's standards but something you'd have paid £100's for only a few years back. available for around £60-70 now, so you can't complain.
my one major gripe with epson's new printers is their 'intellichip' cartridges. there is a chip embedded in the cartridge which supposedly monitors ink levels. in actuality, this chip is not electrically connected to the cartridge in any wa ...
madra.'s full review | 184 words
Review by
compguy.
on 22nd May 2003
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i bought this for general use at college and i could definately tell that this is a cheap printer, it is slow, noisy, and just annoying to use. there are much better values out there.
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Review by
rox015.
on 22nd Apr 2003
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User Rating : 9
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This Epson C42 Plus performed exceptionally well. I bought it two weeks back and i haven't had any problems yet. Ink cartridge shows the same level of ink it did when i bought. One other good thing is that they give you sample glossy photo papers and photo quality ink jet papers along with the printer in the box. It uses the USB cable for easy plug and play, so those who've got xp dont really need to install drivers from the cd, except for the printer software. Another pro is that cartridges ar ...
rox015.'s full review | 154 words
Review by
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on 4th Mar 2003
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User Rating : 2
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This was the worst £60 I've ever spent. The machine was very noisy, exceptionally slow, the print heads block regularly, paper feed gets jammed (it sometimes tries to feed several sheets at once, cartridges are expensive and generally I hate it!
This machine will soon find its way to the tip, I don't know which printer to buy next, but one thing is for sure, it wont be an Epson.
russya.'s full review | 75 words

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