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Epson RX420
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Average Ratings for Epson RX420

  • Quality2.5 stars
  • Value for Money1.6 stars
  • Reviewer Ratings1.8 stars
  • Overall Rating1.9 stars

21 Reviews For Epson RX420

  • Guest 21st Sep 2009

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    I bought this Epson RX420 printer from Comet after a chat with the salesman as to what was a good all round printer.Within 2 days,it had started to print randomly & went back for repair.After being returned,i had to buy some more ink as it had apparently used it in the repair process.....
    Summary since then:Very heavy on ink usage-clarity of colour when printing is not very good (ie:lots of light red & blue where there shouldn't be) - & now,having recently changed the ink cartridges (AGAIN....)it has suddenly put the ink light on & whatever i try & do to reset it,the darn thing won't go out...
    Will be buying an HP next,as Epson have obviously not got to grips with the quality side of things...........

  • Guest 12th Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    I paid under £50 for the RX 425 just over two years ago. For its specification it was cheap. I had an Epson printer before that and was happy with that. I was moved to write this review when I saw the overall hugely negative reviews that have gone before. I am at a loss to understand how the reviews can be so bad unless people are reviewing what is a budget machine using premium machine expectations.

  • Southern Star 11th Dec 2008

    Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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    This is a budget printer that I picked up cheaply for under £50. I get Think+ cartridges from Choice and their performance is identical to the originals at a fraction of the price. The only reason I wrote this review was because I was amazed by the hugely negative tone of most of the earlier reviews.

  • Guest 29th Nov 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    Epson seems to be a big brother company which adds spyware to your system. Never again. If you want a printer that always lets you down when it is most important, buy an epson. Any excuse, it stops.

  • Guest 17th Sep 2008

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    I wish I never bought it. I only wanted a simple printer. Was persuaded by slick salesman to get rid of my cheap, small, perfectly working HP. Now (because I have not yet accepted that it is a dud and I need to get rid) I have no working printer, which has caused untold hassle in my life and career. Never again

  • SlartyUK 9th Sep 2008

    Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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    I have owned many epson printers and found them all to be very good, yes they do use a bit too much ink and yes it is expensive, but I only use genuine cartridges and have never had blocked heads etc. I am still using my epson r200 very succesfully and print most days.

  • Guest 31st Jul 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    Was working ok but now after less than 2 years it pulls the paper in crookedly and them prints only half the page very ertically... plus the print is blurred. I've tried to trouble shoot but to no avail... very disappointed.

  • Guest 11th Jun 2008

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    Cheap cartridges...
    Heavy on ink use, colour spoor. Ink waste pad get full. Bin printer, not worth replacing. Very average for me, wouldn't go Epson again.

  • Guest 16th Mar 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    Good until it just started printing strips of colour.
    Uses ink too fast, just prints strips now no text or images. Pain in the neck as far as I am concerened. Never buy Epson printer again as far as I am concerned.
    Never been used that much and is totally useless now, its for the bin in my experience. I do not recommend this model Epson RX420.

  • geoffk Rank: Staff Sergeant 3rd Feb 2008

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    My Epson printer go through a routine each time they are turned on, so it uses ink even if you don't print any thing! The cartridges are very small capicity about 6ml each. Mine ran out after 3 months and I just use the scanner now. I recovered my old HP deskjet from the loft and now use it on draft b/w only.
    Remember there two printer manufactures HP and the rest!

  • simpletron 25th Jan 2008

    Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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    Due to not being able to print black text even though the cartridge is full I will not buy from this brand again. It is bad enough that it consumes ink like there is no tomorrow.

  • Mr Fussy 22nd Dec 2007

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    It is so frustrating you just want to smash it to pieces. It uses huge amounts of ink to clean heads - cannot clean heads without over 10% ink in all 4 cartridges - doesn't always work after 6 or more cleans.

  • data 14th Oct 2007

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    Will not buy another all in one printer by Epson rx420

  • PrimeTime Rank: Sergeant 7th Oct 2007

    Reviewer rating: 3 stars


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    No complaints in general. Nothing impressive, nothing too bad. Can't comment on the ink consumption much, got a good deal with Cartridge Monkey and got something like a total of 25 cartridges for 50 pounds, and still have not used them. Printer is OK, software for scanner is OK, and it is a lot cheaper now, I guess.

  • mikecres 18th Aug 2007

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    The Epson RX420 is unreliable, uses huge amount of ink, very poor value for money

  • nomoreepson 27th May 2007

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    We have had 2 Epson printers in the past both ended up in the bin due to new cartridges every 2 weeks even though printer was not used.
    We thought that maybe Epson had sorted this out by now and tried the RX420 as we were looking at an all-in-one and guess what? We were wrong... 3 months old and 3 sets of replaced inks and all we did was print 16 photos 4 to an A4 page thats 4 A4 pages then blue would not print had to clean heads 3 times guess what red ran out new set of cartridges at £29 ...

  • Swampcroc 7th Feb 2007

    Reviewer rating: 1.5 stars


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    Will not print after only 18 months of fairly light use - and the Epson service centre have quoted me £60 to fix it - this is to replace some shaped foam pads! Often had to replace half full cartridges as the heads had become clogged. This will be my last Epson printer.

  • hazeldinka Rank: Sergeant 7th Sep 2006

    Reviewer rating: 1 stars


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    I have owned three successive Epson printers, and to be honest, I have been disappointed with each. More fool me I guess! The Epson RX420 multifunction printer is definitely the better built and most reliable of them, but there are three things that are definite disadvantages:

    1) I cannot get it to print black documents when there is ample black left, but no colour ink remaining - this REALLY gets me. I rarely do photos, but frequently print documents out, and it is very inconvenient when I h ...

  • twoller 12th Jul 2006

    Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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    I wouldn't even consider having an Epson RX420 given me for free! Print quality when it works is good. Scanner is great, and copies well. The heads continually block and it uses up so much ink to do it that by the time you`ve got that one working, another cartridge has run out. So much so that after 18 months it wouldn't work anymore as it had come to the end of it's life and needed to be serviced, which meant throw it in the bin.

  • epsonuser 17th Oct 2005

    Reviewer rating: 2 stars


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    In 3 weeks time I had to replace 4 cartridges in my Epson RX420. Not due much printing but to 'cleaning' printerheads

    Second set of original Epson ink was gone within a week. Not by printing but "head cleaning"
    To me this was the last Epson adventure. Cartridges needed to be replaced at the same time anyway ( no cost reduction by selling colors apart)

    At the cost of 40 euro for four sets of ink...

    Sorry Epson.... you make a party of this, selling a great printer but "laughing" at all ...