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Need a cheap, no thrills inkjet printer?

The Stylus D92 is Epson’s entry level inkjet printer and it promises to be a cheap solution to everyday printing. Printer ink cartridges for the D92 consists of four individual printer cartridges one for each colour, this is an economical setup as its means you only change the single cartridges when it is empty. The economy stops however when you see how much Epson D92 ink cartridges actually cost, there are compatibles avaible however and these are great value for money. The D92’s build quality is good for a budget printer, the design is good and compact and it feels solid so should stand up to normal everyday use, the only weak point is the paper feeder which clip into the back of the machine and feels a little flimsy. Print quality is also quite good; the D92 can print loads of different types of documents including letters, emails and graphics with great quality, it can even print photos. The D92’s weakest point is the speed in which it prints, the official spec sheet says that it can print 25 pages per minute but nobody quite knows where Epson got that figure from, a number of people have tested the D92 and it was producing more like 7 pages per minute in the lowest quality/fast speed setting and 2.5 pages per minute in an average setting. Tests also found that the D92 took over five minutes to print a  single 10×15 photo in it’s photo quality setting. These speeds are slow even for a budget printer and may be the reason for people looking elsewhere for their budget inkjet printer.