Epson C45 Inkjet Printer

I currently took a new epson printer for my benefit thought that it could help me out running to printer shop. But it made me dissapointed becuase it works slowly. The procedure to take print is quite complicated and its not highly duarable as I thought. And I really got a bad experience with it. Choose best for your benefit I can say

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The Espon C45 Inkjet printer is the worst to buy in its category as compared to some of the top brands which offer the printers at the same price. I thought that it is a good deal when time of buying it as it offers much more features that the other same priced printers but that was my mistake. Only feature doesn't mean everything and a good product is enough on itself. This printer does give much more features but it doesn't work properly and always leaves you annoyed. The printing speed of this printer is the worst. The print comes out so slow that is better to take a tea break while it is printing the papers. Its paper handling is also not good and most of the time something gets stuck in the printer because of which you have to open it and repair the problem in the middle of a series.

I have used this printer not so long ago and I ended up buying a new one and selling it second hand so I will never recommend this printer to anyone, whether for domestic use or for office as if you buy it, you will require a new one not much long after.

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Hello friends today iam saying some the my experiance wiith all of you friends so that epson inkjet printer sk it will be very difficult to operate tahta printer so it wipl be very tough to gives the output of the xerox copies of the machine so iy will be very tough to give the output of the xerox copies after long time of the xerix copies

some tine it wi be very slow to vove the output of the printer and the ink bottles wipl be used only that the hunxread papers only after taht you can buy the new

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Epson  company is specialy world wild famus for its printer. C45 inkjet printer is also belongs to epson company.

Black text( memo) A4 - Approx. 12 PPM( economy) *1

Colour text( memo) A4 - Approx. 5.4 PPM( economy) *2

TEXT & Photo A4 Approx. 0.9 PMM ( Normal) * 3

Photo A4 288+ sec per photo ( Fine) * 4

Second rating refers to the time taken to print one page. ppm rating refers to the number of pages printed in one minute. The computer environment we test under is as follows: CPU: 1GHZ Pentium III; RAM: 128MB; OS: Windows ME; Interface/Connectivity: USB.

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This is my printer its epson c45, I have been using this since 1 year I bought it for 3500 that was quite enough and its very satisfactory, the best thing I liked is its printing quality is very good , and its only for home usage guys.

You can have more details about this product here,

https://epson.com.au/products/inkjet/c45_consumables.asp

Coming to this it has equipped with usb port, for inkjet im using black one for 400 and colour one for 750/- thats quite good enough, well iam able 2 print more than 160+ pages for a single inkjet thats quite good enough guys, it can print photos too in very good quality.

Any 1 planning for a small budget printer this is an good option.

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I am using Epson C45 printer for more than 2 years, so I can surely say something about it. I was previously using Epson C41 SX printer for 2.5 years and then I bought the C45 printer, because of the previous good experience of Epson printer.

The main reason for buying the Epson C45 printer was, its very cheap cartridges. I always use compatible cartridges, which give me same quality as original one. The compatible black cartridge costs Rs. 80/- in Pune and colour cartridge costs Rs. 160/-. This is really the small price and therefore there is no need to refill the cartridges. You can always use the new one and get the same print quality everytime.

Although I have bought this printer, because of low cost of cartridges, but when I printed the first photo on glossy paper, it came as lab quality photo. The photo was looking excellent on full A4 paper. It took long time (12 minutes) to print the A4 size photo, but that is OK time, because it is not targeted as a regular photo printer. So home user, who wants A4 size photos, can wait for this much time.

I print near about 100 black text pages every month. The regular black text print quality is not the best in class, but still ok for regular use. The print speed is low to medium as compared to other printer in this class. It prints at 3-4 ppm in black at normal setting. Although it states as 14ppm on the box, it must be in the draft mode. The print quality in the draft mode is too bad, and not even usable for rough prints. So I always use normal quality setting. Changing the mode to 'Fine' quality does not make any noticeable difference in the black text, but takes almost 3 times more time. However the print speed is surely sufficient for home and personal use.

The colour document containing photos and text, looks good when printed and speed is also ok. It took near about 4 minutes to print 10 documents containing photos and text in normal quality.

The printer driver software is really good and gives you very accurate level of ink, and allows you to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, individual colour saturation, edge smoothing etc. Its really superb control.

Epson uses a small chip fitted to every cartridge for measuring the ink levels accurately. The chip counter turns to zero, when the cartridge is empty. So this type of cartridges require a special chip resetter device, if you want to refill them. It is available at almost every shop of refilling, so you don't have to worry, if you want to refill the cartridges.

The printer is really very reliable. Both of Epson printers (C41 and C45) have never given me a single trouble in 4.5 years. I really appreciate the manufacturing quality of Epson.

This printer uses the fix head for printing. This means, you only replace the ink tanks every time. This is the reason behind the low cost of cartridges. This also means, you should change your printer after 4 years and buy a new one.

All in all, this is a good printer for home user, who especially wants a low cost cartridges and do not want highly professional print quality and speeds.

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Hello Reader!

I bought the Epson Stylus C45 around 2 months back at Chenoy Trade Centre, Secunderabad for about 2.4K. The deal at the time was - 1 black cartridge free, 2 years on-site warranty. Very very powerful printer driver, loads of options. B&W Prints are ok. Color prints are not ok, massive color caliberation required. The good part is over.

The printer is squarely aimed-designed-built for the low end user. Compared to a Canon design, this looks like a brick.

The paper tray is slide-out plastic tray at the bottom. Its curved and even on full extension doesnt fit an A4 page. Also, if kept slightly unbalanced, the tray rubs against the table surface i.e. the tray is not covered at the bottom with a lid. Kinda like a Kinetic rubbing on a speed breaker.

The rear paper-in has a weird tray that allows the A4 paper to curve backwards. If you load too many sheets, multiple papers tend to enter and jam the feeder.

The printer is noisy during operation. Not the most silent equipment in my house. Wont crib too much though (have used DMPs in the past).

Printer tends to waste phenomenal amount of ink everytime you switch it on/off, press paper-feed. Result: cartridge runs out. My first black cartridge ran out in 55 black prints. Hell, at 450/- per cartridge, the cost of ink per print alone is 8.20/-.

After a cartridge change, recently the printer developed serious paper feed issues. The paper just wouldnt enter the printer. After loads of paper-feed cycles, the printer finally started to load paper. The cause: A tiny piece of thermocol from printer packaging. The remaining thermocol is ground up and smeared against the metal roller inside the printer. In this context, if you see white/pink cream inside the printer, dont wipe it off. Its grease and essential for the lubrication of the printer head.

One worrying factor while loading paper by pressing paper feed that I observed was - the printer seemed to recharge/clean the jet after every so many paper feeds. If true, this is dumb electronics. Not only, I wasted 8/- per paper eject, the waste ink sponge will become full too and will require factory service (Epson's recommendation).

Another piece of dumb electronics is the cartridge ID chip. Stuck to the cartridge is a tiny smart chip. The chip is supposed to count the number of prints taken using the cartridge. Its not a measurement of ink remaining - just print count. The printer driver decrements the amount of ink remaining based on the count from the chip - not a real measurement of ink remaining. I dis-assembled a ink cartridge to verify. Inside, its all plastic. No wiring or chips to measure ink volume.

If you pop-in a non-Epson cartridge (less than 350/- for black), the printer warns you against using non-approved ink. This looks to me like a clear case of MRTPC. Heck, in this age of complex Intellectual Property laws & DMCA in US, I am sure enough clauses exist to render MRTPC completely in-effective.

The ink cartridge maybe cheaper than HP, but in HP you get a brand new head and more ink. Upto 18ml vs 5ml of Epson.

The 2 year warranty is a good option, though I suspect, when the time comes, Epson will claim inability to repair the printer and offer a Buy-back instead. Or they will give me a repair bill higher than the printer's original cost.

Any advise as to which legal clause I can use against such tactics?

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I purchased this printer one month back mainly for printing letters and special document. For other office I have dotmatrix printer. Even though Hewlet Packard is the industry standard in Inkjet printers, this printer from Epson offers great features at low cost. It retails around Rs.2800/- and the wholesale price at Rs.2400/-.

It is a USB port printer; hence it cannot be installed on very old Computers (without Usb port). Before buying this printer please check whether you have USB port on the Computer. Installation was smooth and didn?t give any problems. I have found that the installation on AMD machines can be tricky sometimes.

One of my friends tried to install a cannon Inkjet printer (USB) on an AMD machine with windows Me. The vender insisted that it could not be done on WinMe as the driver software does not support winMe. After a days trial I found one of the jumper setting on the motherboard was not correctly set.

This was corrected and it got installed. I have written this only to show that due to ignorance of the vendors customers are put to great hardships of changing the operating systems, which requires formatting of the hard drives and re-installing all the software that they use, this could be dangerous sometimes.

Coming back to C45, it offers some special features such as photo printing with two settings (normal and top-quality). Which means you can actually print photos of your near and dear ones at home. The advanced settings are great. You can control the printing at greater level. But this is recommended for those who know what they are doing. You may experiment with it. But for most users the ordinary settings itself is simple and easy to understand.

Another feature, which even the Hewlett does not offer, is the reduction of the printing size. It allows the user to adjust the printing to the size of the paper. Suppose you have a document which is set for normal 10X12 paper (normal dot-matrix paper) and want to print on an A4 size paper.

Normally you will have change the setting of the paper size, which in turn will upset the page layout on the document. Imagine changing the layout for a 25 or above page document. This could be a pain in neck, as you will have to change it back manually if you want print on a dot matrix again.

With Epson you can simply select the Page Layout, select Reduce/Enlarge Document and select the paper size. The printer shall automatically adjust printing to the size of the paper. This is like reducing or enlarging while taking a Xerox.

I have used Inkjet?s from Hewlett and it does not offer this feature, at-least on low cost (home use) printers. One last thing even though it looks like as breadbox, the printing is reasonably fast and less noisy. The ink cartridge is also cheap compared to Hp. Black ink sells around Rs 450/ and color Rs 750/- (Hewlett ? RS 1200/- and 1800/-). I have not checked how many prints one can get out of a refill, but already printed about 100 pages mostly black. Still 50% of black is reaming.

Cheap refill of the ink is not recommended as it may damage the printer head due to low quality of ink. The Epson ink uses a special quick dry technology, which means you don?t have to wait till the ink dries on the paper (it does not smear like hp). I hope this review might be useful to those who want to buy an inkjet printer.

Printers from Lexmark and Cannon are also available in the market, but I have found Epson to be rich with features that one can actually use at reasonable cost.

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