Epson Stylus CX 5200 or similar?

[Falcon]

I've been looking at an Epson Stylus CX 5200 Multifunction printer,
but was wondering if HP or Canon makes a similar product in the same
pricerange and which one is prefered?
Any comments, good or bad are welcome.

Falcon

 

[Clark W. Griswold, Jr.]

I've been looking at an Epson Stylus CX 5200 Multifunction printer,
but was wondering if HP or Canon makes a similar product in the same
pricerange and which one is prefered?
Any comments, good or bad are welcome.

IIRC, the CX5200 is no longer in production. It has been replaced by the CX5400.
The CX5400 is faster, but uses different cartridges than the 5200. The three
color cartridges are separate. It's available for around US$129 after rebates.

HP sells a competing model PSC1350 for around $149. It's a bit slower, boxy
looking and the ink cartridges hold less ink. It also uses a single color cart
with three inks. There's an even slower PSC2110 available for $98 after rebate.

My preference is the Epson, but I've had good experiences with HP printers in
the past.

 

[Richard]

The CX5400 uses the same four cartrdiges as the CX5200. The CX3200 used a
combined colour cartridge.

Performance on CX5200 good. Am pleased with scanner. Did suffer from
blocked heads on in-warranty printer but immediately replaced.

Richard

 

[Clark W. Griswold, Jr.]

The CX5400 uses the same four cartrdiges as the CX5200. The CX3200 used a
combined colour cartridge.

My mistake.

Performance on CX5200 good. Am pleased with scanner. Did suffer from
blocked heads on in-warranty printer but immediately replaced.

I haven't fired my 5400 up at home yet, but in the store it appears that Epson
has finially eliminated that characteristic "clunk & clean" cycle before every
print job. Printing was very quiet.

Other than a slightly faster 4x6 photo print speed, border free 8x10s and a
slightly lighter weight, it's difficult to see any difference between the cx5200
and cx5400.

 

[devraj50]

I can't comment on the earlier models but I love my CX5400. Very responsive
and smooth. I had read some reviews of the 5200 which talked about the paper
feed being clunky. The 5400 has fixed that problem in the text mode but it
still is a little clunky (startling) in the draft mode.

The only problem I have, seems to be the scan/fax part of the software if
you want to do a fax with several sheets of paper. It is very clumsy. What I
now do is scan the sheets into MS Word and then fax from msword.

devraj