Epson Does It Again Las Vegas NV

Posted by : Joe Farace

I must confess that I don't know how Epson does it. It seems that each new family of the company's inkjet printers is better, more capable, and less expensive than that the one that came before.

I was reluctant to replace the Epson Stylus Color 900G connected to my Windows computer with the new 980; the 900G has been a workhorse that happily churns out reams of high-quality output. But I couldn't resist Epson's update to the Stylus Color 980, which follows computing's age-old (in Internet years, anyway) imperative to perform better, faster, and cheaper.

The Stylus Color 980 is aimed at the professional and SOHO computer user who wants dependable and fast letter-sized output. Epson claims the unit has an 8.26-by-10.76-inch printable area, but you should also be able to use Epson's 8.3-by-2.75-inch Panoramic paper for printing signs and mini-banners.

Output speed with black text is 13 pages per minute (PPM) and 10.5 PPM in color. Epson claims computer users can print color Microsoft PowerPoint pages in as little as 15 seconds, and high-resolution 8-by-10-inch photos at 720 dpi in approximately 78 seconds. In my own real-world tests (printing photographs and lengthy text-heavy manuscripts) the Stylus Color 980 not only met those specifications but did so in virtual silence.

This printer is better looking than its predecessor, and has "business printer" written all over it. The Stylus Color 980 has USB and Parallel ports built in, an...

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