The low-down on the Epson Stylus D92
Designed to be a cheap solution to everyday general printing task the Stylus D92 is the entry level inkjet of the Epson range. Epson D92 ink cartridges consist of four separate inks one for each colour, these makes buying printer cartridges for the D92 much more economical because it means you only have to change the colour that is empty and no ink gets wasted unlike tri-colour mono block cartridges. This doesn’t mean however that the printer ink cartridges are cheap, in fact they cost just as much as the printer itself and they don’t print all that much either. It is a common trick used by printer manufacturers to price a printer as cheap as possible in order to convince you that it’s a bargain and this is not the only trick they try. With the Stylus D92 Epson have bent the true quite a lot on the spec sheet make it seem like it’s a very fast printer but in fact its actually a very slow printer. Epson Claim it’s possible to print 25 pages per minute with the D92 but the best ours could manage was seven pages of text in draft quality which is barley readable. Increasing the print quality setting certainly works in terms of print quality but slows the printer down even more. To print photos the printer really needs to be in the photo quality setting but this results in a 6×4 photo taking over fives minutes to complete. Although there is nothing wrong with the print quality of the D92 the low speed is to hard to ignore and it makes using the D92 a unpleasant experience.