Epson Stylus C60 Ink Cartridges

Epson C60 Printer Review

For a budget printer, the Epson Stylus C60 is about average. It is inexpensive off the shelf and the replacement printer ink is reasonably priced, making this machine a good value. It only offers a single function and prints at a mediocre pace, but it will create text documents and color images with clarity and bold coloring. The C60 is designed to be used in a home, but micro offices could also use this to handle basic daily tasks.

Weighing only 6.3 pounds, this unit is easy to install and move around. When the trays are not extended, it makes a small footprint of approximately 18.8x10x5 inches. Two Epson C60 ink cartridges are installed, each with nozzles designated for ejecting small dots of printer ink onto the pages. The black Stylus C60 ink is ejected through 144 nozzles, while the other colors have 48 nozzles each. This ultimately creates an enhanced maximum resolution of 2880x720 dpi.

Compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems and connected via USB and parallel ports, the C60 will work in most environments. Only about 12 pages per minute can be printed in black-and-white, while the color pages are produced at a rate of about 8 pages per minute. Printing pictures is an even slower process, with a 4x6-inch photo taking about a minute and a half to print and an 8x10-inch photo taking nearly 4 minutes.

The Stylus C60 ink cartridges can yield 420 pages and 600 pages for the tricolor and black supply, respectively. These yields are not bad for an inkjet printer, but high-volume printing will burn through these supplies quickly. Some vendors offer third-party Epson C60 ink, which costs less than a third of the OEM products.

This round, gray and white inkjet printer has a standard input tray that can hold up to 100 sheets of plain paper and an output tray that will catch up to 30 documents. Various media types are supported, including photo paper, envelopes, iron-on transfers, and self-adhesive sheets. Users can change the media type using the control panel, which also features an automatic detector for when Epson C60 ink runs low.

Overall, the Epson Stylus C60 is a simple printer that is compact and affordable. It is considered an average unit, but will be a good addition to a home with light printing needs.