Epson Stylus R200 Photo Printer Review

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Hey Scott from New Jersey again and the item that I have for you here today is the Epson Stylus R200 printer. The great thing about this printer is you can print directly on to CDs. You just buy inkjet printable CDs. For example here I have a silver silver CDR. The service of the CDR will stick to the ink that it wants to print on it so it's really cool. Wouldn't recommend it for the thermo printing because they have separate CDRs for that. The thing is this printer comes with is a CD guide that actually slides into the second half of this printer. It has a little put down it's right here and then the tray has arrows on it and the arrows that are on here you simply line up in that. You place your CD on this guide you place it into here. It sure just slide right in. A little con that I have about the R200 printer however is the rollers inside. Sometimes they'll slip so you have to watch this when it's going in. Sometimes you just give a little push and once it gets in it's fine. The new printers that they just came out with are the R300 and I believe the R800 fixed that problem. Now it usually takes roughly about 30 seconds for the print a CD. Now it came with software it's called the Epson Print CD Software. It's really simple to use. It's basically a drag and drop program. It comes with the text editor on it. You want to just put text on the CD or it also has a graphics option so you can put graphics text everything that you want on it. It has a full color printer but of course the silver CDs that I got the colors you got mix and match with. Some colors don't show up so well on them. They also have white inkjet printable CDs. I'd recommend that for full color printing. It's really simple to print. You just say okay and then it will take the CD in. Now the Epson R200 model it's a USB printer. It doesn't come with the cable when you buy it out of the box which was a con for me. Another con about this one however is the ink prices. It paint about seven cartridges. It's not the standard what is it red green and blue and black cartridges. It has different types as cyan yellow light glue dark blue coz it's like a full color amazing photo printer. The CD is almost done now. It's been roughly about 30 seconds since the last time I spoke with you. How I have this set up is that I have it set up in a pool. I actually have two R200s. I have one up here and one is the bottom. I only bought them because at Staples they were marking them down for about 38 dollars a piece on the clearance racks. So it could be a little you know a little outdated whatnot but the R300s about I think it still sells for about 199 dollars. So if you need on CD printing this is the one to go with. All _____ CDs down here so you just take it out of the tray and then you look at what was printed on the CD. Nice and easy. Now this is the Epson R200 photo stylus printer. It has the CD printing option and then all printing option. I'd probably rate this about a six on the scale of one to ten as being good not good. So you know what let's change it to a five. I'd recommend it more as a five. I would say go with the higher end printer like the R300 or the R800. But you know I bought it you watched it there you go. Epson R200.