The first thing you notice about the Epson Stylus SX200 is its size, its amazing compact when you consider that its basically three machines rolled into one. It offers all the functionality of a printer, scanner and photo copier with affordable running costs in terms of the price of it printer cartridges. A set of Epson SX200 ink cartridges consist of four individual ink tanks, one for each colour and this means you only have to change the colours individually as they run out. These type of Epson ink cartridges are far more cost effective than the tri-colour single black cartridges that a lot of competitors printers use. The SX200’s most impressive feature is its print quality, with maximum resolution of 5760 x 1440dpi all manner of documents are clear and sharp and the four colour ink system means they are full of vibrant colour tones. The scanner also works well and is capable of most general task including scanning high resolution photos. It fast too with an A4 picture taking just 25 seconds from start to finish. The copier work to a similar standard and has some great features one of which is the ability to copy documents without the need to be connected to a PC, so you can copy a document any when the PC is switched off and you don’t have time to wait for it to boot up. The only weakness we can find with the SX200 is it printing speed, while it’s adequate for general purpose printing when you start increasing the quality setting however it slows the performance considerably.
