Monday, December 13, 2004
Epson Stylus C86 Printer Review
| Epson C86 - All-Purpose Inkjet Printer For Home and Home Office
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Epson C86 is a small and compact inkjet printer. It comes with a small volume black ink cartridge.
Epson C86 includes separate inks for higher quality and minimum ink cartridge cost. It is the only printer in its class which uses separate ink cartridges. Epson Stylus C86 also provides DuraBrite inks which create high quality text, graphics and photos up to a class-leading 5,760 optimized dpi. And these inks are also water-, smudge- and light-resistant.
Epson C86 uses high-capacity ink cartridges for more pages per ink cartridge and relatively lower cost per page.
Detailed Specs:
- Print speed: 22 ppm - B/W; 12 ppm - color
- Print resolution: 5760 dpi x 720 dpi
- Printing Technology: Inkjet
- Inkjet cartridges: One black ink cartridge, one yellow ink cartridge, one cyan ink cartridge and one majenta ink cartridge
- Input capacity: 120 sheets
- Paper types: Envelopes, transparencies, plain paper, photo paper, cards
- Paper sizes: letter, legal, executive, 4" x 6", 5" x 7", 8" x 10"
- Two-sided printing: Manual
- Interface: USB
- Operating systems: Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Mac OS 8 or higher
- Width: 17.7", height: 7.6", depth: 9.5"
- Weight: 13 pounds
MSRP for Epson Stylus C86: $99.99
Epson C86 uses the below ink cartridges:
) OEM #: T043120 Color: Black Yield: 950 pages |
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) OEM #: T044120 Color: Black Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T044220 Color: Cyan Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T044320 Color: Magenta Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T044420 Color: Yellow Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: C64/84 Color: Set |
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) OEM #: T043120 Color: Black Yield: 950 pages |
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) OEM #: T044120 Color: Black Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T044220 Color: Cyan Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T044320 Color: Magenta Yield: 400 pages |
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) OEM #: T044420 Color: Yellow Yield: 400 pages |
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Reviews Summary:
The summary is based on testimonials of the Epson Stylus C86 users and editors in various sources such as PC Magazine, Cnet, PCWorld etc.
It takes just a couple of minutes to load the Epson Stylus C86 Driver that comes loaded on a CD. Epson C86 is capable of full borderless print on paper up to 8.5" x 11". So, you can print full page pictures instead of having the white border around all the pictures.
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Related links for Epson C86:
Epson C86 ink cartridges at PrintCountry.com
Buy this printer at Amazon.com
Epson's Related Page
Remanufactured ink cartridges
Epson Stylus C86 Driver
