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Features
It runs on Epson’s new Claria six-ink cartridge system, which is cheaper than traditional multicolour ink cartridge systems from the company, at £6.99 per cartridge and less still for a pack. It still eats ink at a fair lick, and those with a desire to print through dozens of A4 prints might want to look at a continuous ink system, such as the £50 kit from www.inkexpress.co.uk

The printer delivers what is fairly typical of the budget ink-jet breed today; USB 2 connection, Edge-to-edge printing, an option to print onto white-labelled CD blanks and a 1,440dpi print resolution. It doesn’t have the brace of front-mounted card readers though, so it isn’t designed as a PictBridge standalone device. Epson’s Stylus Photo R285 will happily print on paper up to 255gsm, which makes it fine for handling Epson’s own photo papers up to and including Premium Gloss, but fine art and rag papers will be just too thick for the printer. Using Epson paper and ink is suggested to give the print a 98year life expectancy, under glass at least.

Performance
Epson has made some big claims about print speed for the Epson Stylus Photo R285, but these claims are not really appropriate for its home photo printing, although the 12 second 10x15cm photo print seems a bit enthusiastic, even in draft mode. The selection of black, yellow, cyan, light cyan, magenta and light magenta inks gives good rich and vibrant colour prints in best quality mode, but – like most budget printers – this is not so hot for black and white printing. Here, we found it delivered a light and cool tone print with a hint too much cyan and little of the richness in deep shadows that mark out a printer as something special in monochrome. That’s not the point of the R285 though – those vivid, colourful and finely detailed A4s are its raison d’etre.

The Epson Stylus Photo R285 seems particularly good at reproducing the range of tones in skies (those two cyan cartridges help, we reckon) and landscape enthusiasts will love the results it produces for that alone. We’re not so convinced by the performance when it comes to reproducing flesh tones, which can stress the magenta in Caucasian skin – not enough to make everyone look like they have high blood pressure, but just enough to shift faces from ‘ruddy’ to ‘windswept’.

Conclusion
Perhaps it’s the lot of budget printers that we become exceptionally hard on them. We want the quality of something like the Stylus Photo R2400 from the Epson Stylus Photo R285, forgetting that a $150 printer is not a $1000 printer in the process.
for $150 price tag, this printer offers a lot; the inks are not ‘that’ expensive by comparison (although they take a long time to dry) and the colour print image is very good, especially for landscape photographers.

Options:
for sometime now i have been using a Rihac CISS (Continous Ink Supply System) without any flaws. I print hundreds of photographs. The CISS has been my best investment yet.
Whats CISS?
CISS stands for ‘Continuous Ink Supply System’. A CISS is used instead of standard inkjet cartridges. Simply explained the CISS is a self contained unit with its own cartridges fed by tubing from a large ink reservoir which sits beside your printer. The system acts like a giant cartridge by feeding ink to the printer when required and can save up to 95% over the cost of using cartridges

Epson R285 install disks:
Epson R285 Install Disk 1 (2)
Epson R285 Install Disk 2 (2)
Epson R285 Install Disk 3 (2)