Thursday, December 08, 2005
Epson Stylus Photo R340 Printer Review & Printer Ink Cartridges
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Epson R340 Printer Key Features:
- Convenient separate printer ink cartridges
- Premium photo viewer for easy selection & cropping photos
- Direct photo printing from memory cards or PictBridge-enabled digital cameras
- Brilliant, long lasting 6-color photo ink
- Borderfree printing in popular photo sizes
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Important Printer Buying Tip: ALWAYS check for the ink cartridge prices before you purchase a printer. Why? Sometimes cheaper printers end up costing more because its ink cartridges may be way expensive. You should calculate the "cost of ownership" per month. The math is simple: (number of prints per month) times (cost of the cartridge) divided by (the yield of the cartridge). Yield is the number of pages that can be printed with one particular cartridge. For example, assume that average home user prints 150 black pages per month using a black cartridge that yields 200 pages and costs $28. The monthly "cost of ownership" is (150 pages) x ($28) = $21 200 pages Also look at the printer ink alternatives; besides the original manufacturer's cartridges (OEMs), you may have the selection of remanufactured cartridges, compatible ink cartridges, and ink refill kits. |
Below is the list of Epson R340 compatible printer ink cartridges:
) OEM #: T048120 Color: Black Yield: 630 pages |
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) OEM #: T048220 Color: Cyan Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048320 Color: Magenta Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048420 Color: Yellow Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048520 Color: Light Cyan Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048620 Color: Light Magenta Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048SET Color: Set |
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) OEM #: T048120 Color: Black Yield: 630 pages |
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) OEM #: T048220 Color: Cyan Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048320 Color: Magenta Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048420 Color: Yellow Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048520 Color: Light Cyan Yield: 430 pages |
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) OEM #: T048620 Color: Light Magenta Yield: 430 pages |
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Detailed Specs (Epson R340):
Product Description for Epson Stylus Photo R340 (From the Manufacturer, Epson)
It's very easy to get great frame-ready photos directly from memory card or digital camera. Epson Stylus Photo R340 lets you select, crop and print your favorite photos without ever turning on your PC. Its built-in premium photo viewer, so you can see every brilliant detail before you choose to print.
It's all right at your fingertips with the Epson Stylus Photo R340. Create a customized CD as a gift or party favor. Or, print stunning photos to place on the mantle or in the family album. Whatever you do, your projects are sure to impress, thanks to remarkable resolution and vibrant six-color photo ink.
Best of all, the Epson Stylus Photo R340 was made to accommodate your busy lifestyle. Need a photo from the reunion before you rush out the door to visit family? No problem. With high speed printing, you can quickly print photos they're sure to enjoy. This ink jet is so versatile, you can save or print from practically any storage device. Just connect to your external CD-R, Zip or flash memory drive. You don't even need your computer.
What's in the Box:
Epson Stylus Photo R340 ink jet printer, cyan printer ink cartridge (T048220), light cyan printer ink cartridge (T048520), magenta printer ink cartridge (T048320), light magenta printer ink cartridge (T048620), yellow printer ink cartridge (T048420), black printer ink cartridge (T048120), CD print tray and software, printer documentation, CD-ROM containing printer drivers & software (Windows and Macintosh)
Epson R340 Street Price: $176.99 - $242.00
PCMAGAZINE.com Editors' review:
All those familiar with the Epson Stylus Photo R220 need to know about the Epson Stylus Photo R340 printer ($200 street) is that it's effectively the same printer gussied up with photo-related features and costs twice as much. Print speed and output quality are nearly identical, and both let you print directly on a printable optical disc, so you don't need paste-on labels. More importantly, both are best used as second printers primarily for photos. They can function as single, all-purpose home printers, but only if you don't mind waiting for output.
The additional features in the Epson Stylus Photo R340 include direct printing from PictBridge cameras and memory cards, assisted by a front-panel menu and 2.4-inch LCD to let you preview your photos. Epson also added a port for plugging in USB storage devices including thumb drives, ZIP drives, and CD and DVD burners and drives. You can use any of these for direct printing and (except for CD and DVD drives) for saving images from a camera memory card so you can make room on the card for more photos.
The Epson R340 is slightly larger than the Epson R220, at 8.6 by 19.6 by 10.4 inches (HWD), but is essentially an R220 clone. To set up the printer, you insert the six ink cartridges—cyan, yellow, magenta, black, light-cyan, and light-magenta—load paper, run the automated installation routine, and plug in the USB cable. Input capacity is the same for both printers too, at 120 sheets—but what is acceptable paper capacity in a $100 printer feels skimpy at $200.
Much the same can be said about performance. Although the two printers handed in similar times on our test suites the Epson R340 printer earned a lower performance rating overall, because it's a more expensive printer. Its total time on our business applications suite was 28 minutes 16 seconds; the R220's was 27:45. The two printers were within a few seconds of each other on each individual test. By comparison, the Editors' Choice HP Photosmart 8250 printer's total time was just 15:01.
On our photo-printing tests, the Epson R340 printer averaged 2 minutes for each 4-by-6 photo and 4:06 for 8-by-10s, essentially tying the R220. The 8250 averaged 1:07 for 4-by-6s and 2:46 for 8-by-10s.
The R340's output quality was good for text and graphics, and very good for photos. But these ratings are lower overall than those of the Photosmart 8250. The text rating is also slightly lower than what the R220 earned, but the text output for the R220 and R340 is very similar.
More than half the test fonts for both printers were easily readable at 5 points, with some readable at 4 and none needing more than 12. With the R340, however, fewer fonts were readable at 4 points, a difference that's small enough to be a matter of variation between individual printers. In any case, unless you have an unusual need for small fonts, the text should be good enough for anything you're likely to print.
Graphics showed only minor flaws, including banding in one image in default mode and a tendency to lose thin lines. The output is certainly good enough for internal business use, and marginally good enough to give a client when you need to project a professional image.
Most photos qualified as true photo quality, making them good enough for albums and framing. But on a few test photos some of the colors had a muddy look, and our monochrome photo showed tints of varying colors at different gray levels. If you don't need to print monochrome photos, this obviously won't be a problem. One small plus is that the photos are fully waterproof from the moment they come out of the printer. Touching them with moist hands won't ruin them.
The combination of output quality, photo-related features, waterproof output, and the ability to print on printable optical discs makes the R340 worth considering. But be sure to take a look at the HP Photosmart 8250, as it has somewhat better-looking output and much faster speed.
Related links for Epson Stylus Photo R340:
Epson Stylus Photo R340 ink cartridges at PrintCountry.com
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