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Does what it says on the tin and print quality on the fixed 6x4(15x10) size is quite reasonable.

As with most such printers that use combined colour ink cartridges, consumable costs can rack up if you do a lot of printing. But for printing a few snaps here and there, for people who don't want to wait for ordered prints, it's good.

I bought this printer second hand on Market Place. The description was "As New with disc and manual, only used once" When it arrived the disc and manual were foreign and everything inside was dried up. There was no Windows Vista driver, which was probably my fault as I didn't think to check about that, but I was able to download one from Epson. The seller was not interested and said it was alright when it left her. It took half a brand new cartridge which I had already bought and half a packet of paper to get the printer to work. But after saying that, now it is working it is absolutely great, I wouldn't be without it as it is a perfect partner for my little Dell mini notebook.

I found that this is a great little printer and it produces good postcard sized prints which is just what I wanted. However when I ordered one for my daughter it came devoid of essential components so be advised - check your parcel before you start using it and do not be put off by Amazon stating that they cannot replace it - they can. They are always there.

I bought one of these refurbished from ebay...big mistake!!
The printer arrived without any ink cartridge and being a refurb unit it had previously been used and the ink jet heads were blocked.(The manual says not to remove the ink cartridge until a replacement is ready!!)
Cleaning the heads uses ink!!
It took a whole cartridge to clean the heads before it could be used luckily I used a compatible ink cartridge £4.95 instead of the original £20+.
The printer cost me £20 if I had used genuine ink cartridges that would have been 20+, then I would have to buy another cartridge £20+ because I used the ink in the other cartridge cleaning the heads!!
So effectivley my £20 bargain would have cost £60+.

I know what these printers can do and when they are working they are great little things my parents own one (£40 NEW)which made me buy this BARGAIN!!

Anyway all I am saying is spend the extra and buy it new they are worth it and the results from such a small printer are great.

Having bought this printer, I was initially very impressed with the look of the output, even at the standard quality level. However, I was suprised to find that the printer displayed a low ink level message after printing just 6 photos. On raising this with support, I was told that the printer often displays this in error. This was true, the printer managed another 2 photos, before running dry.
Given that you only get to buy the ink in a combi paper/ink pack, I now have dozens of wasted photo sheets. For me, £2.75 per photo (not including the cost of the printer) seems a little expensive. Very disappointed with this product.