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The Seiko Epson Corporation are one of the largest manufacturers of computer printers in the world.  Their objective is to create value for their users by putting customers first.

The Epson Stylus SX425W is an all in one inkjet printer, standard & high capacity printer ink cartridges are available.  With the added benefit of being wireless you can print, scan or copy from any room in the house.  With the added benefit of PhotoEnhance, it appears you can adjust the contrast & colour of your photos as well as removing red eye, allowing you print your photos with ease.

Specifications

4 Colour inkjet with Epson Micro Piezo technology said to produce excellent colour & clarity at high speeds

Paper capacity – 120 A4 sheets

Print Speed – Black A4 text up to 35 ppm, colour 15 ppm & photos 10 x 15 approx. 15 seconds.

Scan resolution – 1200 2400 dpi

Media size includes – A4, A5, A6, B5, legal & letter

Operating system – Windows XP, Vista, Win 7, Mac OS 10.4.11 or later

LCD colour 3.8 screen

Software – Epson Web Support, Epson Easy Photo Print, EpsonNet Setup, EpsonNet Config, EpsonNet Print, Epson Scan, Epson Event Manager, ABBYY FineReader® 9.0 Sprint (PC), ABBYY FineReader® 8.0 Sprint Plus (Mac)

Now for the reviews

Pcadvisor 3.5 out of 5

The expert review acknowledged the SX425W is easy to use, with well designed software with presets that make printing a variety of documents simple.  They felt it was more cumbersome than others in this group but the benefit of WiFi means you could place it away from the computer if space was an issue.  Overall generates very high quality text, graphics & photos, despite being one of the cheapest models in the stylus range.

Trusted Reviews 7 out of 10

With an array of experience between them, the Trusted Review team declare the good points of Stylus SX425W include the colour LCD display, wireless connection & memory card slots.  On the negative side they thought the print speeds were low & quality not as high as some of it’s competitors.  They did accept that running costs were good when compared to some of their rivals.

Expert Reviews 4 out of 5 stars

The opinion was the great print quality along with reasonable costs are only let down to some extent by slow speeds and poor draft quality.

Another positive point is this multi function printer’s 1,200×2,400dpi scanner, competent memory card support with a small colour screen enables you to connect the printer to your wireless network without the need to configure its wireless settings via USB.

Cnet 3 out of 5

The review team appreciated the range of features the SX425W had to offer for the price along with low running costs.  Not so popular were the slow print speeds, they also felt the photo prints were rather dark.

The overall verdict was that whilst the printer is slow & quality could be better it does offer a lot of features for a low price.  They were also impressed by the low running costs.

So that’s about it, the Epson Stylus SX425W is a four ink model inkjet printer that also offers scanning, copying functionality & easy Wi-fi set up.  With more positives than negatives, this printer seems to have a lot going for it, so long as you don’t expect to print multiple pages in a hurry.

If you decide this is the printer for you then you can buy Epson SX425W Ink Cartridges in our online shop. We have genuine Epson ink & also great value Jet Tec compatible cartridges.

Today, Epson is a household name—and you can find Epson printers, scanners, computers, home theatre projectors, televisions, and other electronics in millions of homes and offices throughout the world. Most people don’t realize that the company’s full name is Seiko Epson, and it’s affiliated with a watch-making corporation that is over a hundred years old.

The story of Epson starts with a Japanese entrepreneur, Kintaro Hattori. He founded K. Hattori & Co., a clockmaking enterprise, in 1881 at the age of 21. Although young, he already had about eight years of business experience as a jeweler.

It was a good time to be a watchmaker. In 1884, the establishment of time zones created a standardization of time that led to an increased need for timepieces, and the rise of railroad traffic at the end of the 19th century intensified this demand further. In 1892, Hattori opened the Seikosha clock making factory in Tokyo. The company made mostly wall clocks, which were the most popular at the time, and employed ten workers.

Over the years, however, the company started producing wristwatches—which became so popular that they replaced the pocket watch as the preferred portable timepiece.  Over time, the name Seikosha was shortened to Seiko. The company developed expertise in micro-engineering through its experience with wristwatches. It used that expertise in 1930 to get into the camera business, producing camera shutters and eventually becoming one of the world’s largest exporters of camera products, most of which were used in other companies’ cameras and marketed under different brand names.

Epson was founded in 1961 under the name Seiki Precision Manufacturing Company, or Shinshu Seiki in Japanese. It was created to manufacture precision components for Seiko watches.  1n 1964, the company won a contract to make highly precise timers for the Olympic Games. The Olympic Committee required timers with small electronic printers built in so that timekeepers could print their results during the games.  To meet this need, the company developed the EP-101, a miniature printer built into a calculator. The acronym “EP” stood for “Electronic Printer.”

The EP-101 was sold to the public in 1968, and the company developed an updated version in 1975.  Company legend states that the workers nicknamed the second version “Son of EP,” which was later transformed into “Epson.” The name was used when Seiko opened an American branch under the name Epson America that year; the new company opened under a name that meant “Son of Electronic Printer.”

The new American company was created to sell original manufacturer’s parts to companies in the computer and electronics industry, and it also started making printers and peripherals of its own. In 1980, when personal computers were being marketed for the first time and there was a demand for affordable home printers to go with them, Epson introduced the MX-80 dot-matrix printer.  This quickly became the industry standard, capturing a 60% share in the home printer market with this product alone due to its reliability, quality of output, and affordable price.

Epson now provides ink cartridge yields based on the ISO/IEC 24711 and 24712 standard for inkjet products.

The new ISO standard is widely recognised as the most reliable method to test inkjet printers under standard conditions for the purpose of comparing achievable ink yields from various competitive printers.

Yields may vary considerably based on images printed, print settings, paper type, frequency of use, humidity and temperature. Since no single yield standard can duplicate a customer’s actual printer usage, Epson recommends that customers choose an inkjet printer based on their expected printing needs, considering page yields as just one factor of evaluation. Other important factors include image quality, fade resistance of prints, reliability and printer features.

The ISO/IEC 24711 and 24712 standard was created by the International Standards Organization for Standardization (ISO) http://www.iso.org/ .with the support of national standards institutes throughout the world, independent experts and industry representatives. Representatives from Epson, Canon, HP, Lexmark and other industry-leading manufacturers worked extensively to achieve a standard that provides customers with a reasonable basis for comparing printer performance.

The following is a brief summary of Epson’s yield testing, conducted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 24711 and 24712 standard:

- Tests are conducted with at least three printers, each using at least three cartridges of each model, not including the first set of installed cartridges.

- A suite of five patterns (shown on the individual product yield pages) is printed continuously, in consecutive order. Cartridges are replaced when the printer indicates cartridges are expended and will not print without replacing the cartridge.

- Testing is conducted at a controlled temperature in Default Mode on plain paper with print commands from a late model PC with a Microsoft Windows operating system.

- In recognition of various factors that can affect yields, declared yields are rounded down (not up) in amounts that are at least sufficient to fulfill the standard deviation formula built into the ISO standard to assure accuracy and reliability.

We are pleased to announce that the award winning UK manufacturer Jettec have now launched their Extra Life compatible cartridges suitable for use in the Epson D120 inkjet printer. The Jettec compatible cartridges are used instead of the following Epson ink cartridges -

E111B – Replaces Epson T0711 Black and prints up to 10% more pages.

E111C – Replaces Epson T0712 Cyan and prints up to 15% more pages.

E111M – Replaces Epson T0713 Magenta and prints up to 15% more pages.

E111Y – Replaces Epson T0714 Yellow and prints up to 15% more pages.

E111B/C/M/Y Replaces Epson T0715 Quad Pack.

Jettec Ink cartridges are the highest quality compatible ink cartridge available for the Epson D120 inkjet printer and offer a considerable cost saving compared to using the genuine Epson ink cartridges.

Buy your Jettec compatible cartridges through an authorised supplier such as Ink and Media Ltd and you will also be covered by their 100% satisfaction guarantee.