Electronics : Epson Stylus SX600FW All In One Printer with Fax and WiFi

Rating: - Epson Printer sx600
I bought this printer as a Epsom replacement, However I did have problems setting it up as the references were not clear. However, my son managed to complete the task and it all works, so I am very pleased. It is much better than a man as it can multitask, but it is evident that a man wrote the instructions. Perhaps Epsom could employ someone with no IT skills to write their manuals and test them. On the important note, the printer/fax/scanner is fast and efficient and would strongly recommend this product.

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Rating: - ok for the cash if you get one in working order.. 8/10
i brought this as a replacement for a fantastic epson r300 i have had for 4 years that as now died, so always go for top range epson printers.

this is my first ever all in one effort for the home - office and the wifi was the biggest reason i brought this. this is one fast printer and scanner and copy feeder. wants to take off from the table as it makes such a racket at speed when printing put i think this can be slowed down in the software?. comes with a handy memory card reader for (hc sd cards) also and a usb port for you camara to print direct.

only points i would say is only 4 colour tanks so for photos the bigger brother sx700w might be a better modal if you can afford it as its £50 more but you get better scanner and 6 ink tanks with the sx700. but for every day printing and scanning this as to be the best buy of the year.

i have also read reviews on this printer regarding the way it drinks the ink? but epson have given you a high capacity black with the machine.

this is my second machine this week from amazon as the first one kept saying paper jam in sheet feeder when i first installed it out of the box when there was no paper in the machine at the time, but amazon replaced the faulty machine within 3 days and i must say the second machine is working fine, so fully test item when you recieve it and if you get this paper jam fault with feeder contact amazon asap and have item replaced as you could spent half the day trying to fix the unfixable like me.

all in all a great buy at this new price and amazon are much cheaper than the epson's websites (shame on you epson) and any other online site i have looked at. so get your bargain from amazon and there always ready to help if things go wrong like my order did. 10/10 amazon for support.

i would tell you to test copy a sheet just in case you get this paper jam error on the sheet feeder if you do send it back, as you will never clear the thing and it just locks the machine up, same if you run out of the ink in any tank it will not let you do a thing until you install new cart.

0/10 for epson's own website for being so expensive on the own products..

as i found out, it can take you more than 10 minutes just to unpack the thing and a good hour to set up inks and software and test print head linement. so the reviewer who said 10 minutes must have not put his clocks back a hour or working it without a pc as it took me over 1 hour at the least.

came with some free glossy paper thanks epson only wish you would give us all a cheap usb cable as you never get them anymore with printers why?

anyway wifi is the point in this machine and the way to go, as you do not have to keep the machine in the same room as the pc, it works a good way from the wifi point. shame there not got wire free fax machines yet ? then it would be totally wire free. i also found the software disk might need to be upgraded online as newer versions are on the epson website.

i found it best to install the disks that came with it first to get it working and then upgrade online as i found the disk had a software setup only option to get it working that i could not find on epsons drivers online.

apart from rip of ink costs and the odd problem's i have had, i am still happy with machine. over all 8/10 good effort epson.

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Rating: - Great printer!!
I bought this for £95 delivered from somewhere else but it's a great printer (so far!!). The quality is excellent, it's fast and quiet and was relatively easy to set up. Took a bit of experimentation as we have an Orange Livebox so I had to press a button on there in order for the printer to communicate with the computer but once I had figured that out it was perfect!! Great to have the printer upstairs and be able to print to it anywhere in the house. Not sure if we'll ever use the fax option but nice to have it anyway. And the sheet-feeder for the photocopier is cool.

Also, the screen on the printer is good, easy to navigate and clear. The memory card reader can be used so that all computers within the wireless network can access the contents. A good feature I think and you can select read-only if you like so that your piccys don't get deleted.

A great price and so far we're really pleased with it!!

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Rating: - Excellent Value for money
I Bought this printer just over a week ago, and it only took about 10 minutes to set up, which included installing all the software then connecting to the Wireless router using the software supplied on the installation CD.

The only problem I found was, in order to set up the wireless connection, you first had to connect the printer to the computer using the supplied Network Cable as your computer needs to send information regarding your wireless network setup to the printer to allow it to connect.. However, once this is done and the settings have been sent, you can disconnect this lead and set up the wireless connection using your WPA or WEP code to make it secure (Just remember that WEP codes are case sensitive).

Once up and running the print quality is excellent with pure pages of text coming through at remarkable speed, the photo quality is OK but not fantastic, so if you are after it for photographic quality prints I would look at a higher model in the range which come with 6 inks rather than 4..

Personally I bought it for the WIFI which is an excellent addition to the Epson range allowing me to connect this printer to all the machines in my business... the scanning / faxing facilities are both excellent as well as the Copying facilities for both Black and white, and colour. I did tests on the colour copying which showed little or no difference from the original copy, and only took about 20 seconds for an A4 sheet of colour images and text. The on screen interface is also quite easy to use once you get used to which features are under which heading

All in all I would say it an excellent little all in one printer with the added bonus of WIFI at a very good price, I bought a DX9400F for a client less than 3 months ago which was more expensive, and this printer has the same features plus WIFI for at least £30-40 less... Excellent Value...