Epson Stylus Color 440 Inkjet Printer

List Price: $95.99

Features:

• Color and black printing
• 720 x 720 dpi resolution
• High-quality output
• Individually replaceable ink tanks
• Generous software bundle

Accessories:
NETGEAR PS121 USB 2.0 Mini Print Server	NETGEAR FWG114P ProSafe 802.11g Wireless VPN Firewall 4-Port 10/100 Switch with USB Server	Epson S020191 Color Inkjet Cartridge	Belkin F2A046-10 IEEE 1284 A-B Parallel Printer Cable (10-FT)	Monster Cable MP AV600 Power Protector

Customer Reviews:

Best in price point, but I still love my HP 832C much more [Posted on 2000-08-11]
I had a Epson model 440 for about a year and a half, and when I bought it, it was about a $150 machine. Now where I definately would know that this printer is not worth nearly that in todays ever advanceing photo printing market I will tell you that its a fairly good value for its current price.

The Epson 440 always produced nice images for me. The color photo printouts I would make on photo stock paper were very nice. The features on this printer are nice too, the software is very easy to use and helps a great deal with many projects. I also like the feature that lets you know when the ink is about to run out, that is a big help.

Here is the bad news though, first of all the Epson 440 is pretty slow compaired to many of the HP printers I have used. Even the HP printers near the same price point are faster. My Epson 440 sometimes apeared to be tempermental too, not running some more complex print jobs. I do not think this was my main computer because I have been running an AMD athlon 800 MGHZ with 256 MB of ram on the motherboard, so I am sure the printer was limited. I run some of the same jobs without a hitch on my HP 832C which I find to be a fantastic printer. Last but not least is the Epson 440 is the loudest thing on mother earth, the thing rattles hums and shakes every time it squezes a print out which makes it difficult to get along with. On contrast most HP printers are very Quiet.

So here is my final scoop, if you are short on cash and need a decent printer to get you by, try the Epson 440, but if you have the money spend it on a higher model HP printer.

It's ok [Posted on 2000-11-26]
This printer is an ok printer with not too many bad points. We had a new motherboard put in our computer about 2 months ago and this printer hasn't worked right since. We had to hook up our old HP(which worked fine). It prints very well, when it works. We tryed reinstalling the software for it with no success. It also has started having problems at startup where the light blinks like it's getting ready to print something, but it doesn't. We have had more problems with this than with other printers. It prints documents very well-when it works.

good while it lasts [Posted on 2000-12-07]
received my gateway comp in april along with my epson 440 color printer. printer and comp is almost 7 mo.'s old and doesn't work like it use to. have to clean nozzle's and head cleaner, every time in order to get a half readable print. i do not recommend this product.

A hard working unit. [Posted on 2001-12-21]
I have had a great time with this unit, over 10,000 copies.
Now I`m on the 2nd. one, I`m now getting ready to buy the 3rd. one from egghead.com.
I want to be sure that there is a spare on hand when needed.
The color could be some what better, but overall I`m very happy with this product.

Epson Workhorse [Posted on 2003-02-06]
I paid [purchased] this printer over 5 years ago. We have never had a problem with it. Prints nice pictures, but is more suited for school or work projects. We throw away HP's @ work every 6 months. I'll stick with Epson.

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