Epson Stylus Photo Px720wd

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Epson Stylus Photo Px720wd
  • Page 1Epson Stylus Photo PX720WD Review
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  • Page 3Feature Table Review
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Pros

  • Integrated, powered photo tray
  • Quick turnaround of duplex pages
  • Fast photo prints

Cons

  • Black print on plain paper can be fuzzy
  • Noisy paper feed
  • Comparatively pricey colour print

Key Specifications

  • Review Price: £122.00
  • Touch panel controls
  • Automated direct CD/DVD print
  • Duplex print
  • Wireless connection as standard
  • Six-ink colour print

Epson has two ranges of inkjet all-in-one printers, aimed mainly at photo enthusiasts and small business customers. The Stylus PX720WD is at the top of the photo printer range and includes all of the features most amateur photographers will be looking for.

Epson Stylus Photo Printer

It’s a surprisingly squat printer, mainly due to the lack of an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and the scanner lid being recessed into the top of the machine. The front panel is straight-cut, with just a silver strip around halfway down it to act as a highlight.

Above the strip is the control panel, which is completely smooth apart from a power button in its top, left-hand corner. It’s divided between a 63mm LCD screen and single-function touch controls, which illuminate as their functions become available. The touch controls are very positive and cover all the standard functions, normally provided by push-buttons.
In the lower half of the control panel is a 120-sheet plain paper tray, with a powered, 20-sheet, photo paper tray set in above it, which the printer calls in automatically, when you select photo print.

To the right of the paper tray are memory cards slots, including CompactFlash, for those with larger or older cameras, particularly DSLRs. There’s a PictBridge socket, too, which doubles up for USB drives.

The symbol at the bottom left of the control panel is labelled CD Tray and, when you touch this, a motorised tray for CD and DVD media slides out, so you can load discs for direct printing. This is a much neater solution than having a separate, manual load-tray, as on some Canon and HP machines.
At the back are sockets for USB and Ethernet, but the printer also supports wireless connection, with a wizard for push-button or passcode setup. When you hinge the scanner section of the printer back, you have direct access to the six ink cartridges which clip into the fixed, piezo-electric print head.

Epson provides its own scan and page management software and includes ABBYY Finereader OCR. Drivers are provided for Windows and OS X and Linux drivers are also available for download.

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About a year ago I bought the previous model, the px700w, and if I'd have reviewed it in the first 3 months I'd have given it five stars.
Things started going wrong very quickly after. The ink seemed to get used up extremely quickly and the expensive genuine cartridges were often 'not recognised' by the printer when they were still half full. The printer kept reporting clogged nozzles and the cleaning not only wasted ink but filled the waste ink pads. One year later my printer won't work any more. There's nothing wrong with it at all, but Epson cap the number of times the clean heads can be cleaned, effectively placing an artificial lifespan on your printer. Getting your printer serviced at this stage is barely cheaper than buying a new printer: exactly what Epson want. This practice seems to have been outlawed in the USA but not in Europe. You'll see lots of similar reviews for this model's predecessors now that people have had time with the device.
Epson may have fixed these problems in this new model, but I wouldn't be too sure.