Price of Epson Stylus CX8400 Color All-in-One Printer

Product Description

Get picture-perfect prints and increase your productivity with the Epson® CX8400 -- the all-in-one that does it all. No matter what you choose to print, the CX8400 delivers at remarkable speeds. Get black and color text documents up to 32 ppm* thanks to powerful DX3TM print head technology. Select, edit and print your favorite photos. Or, scan, copy and archive important documents. You can even reduce or enlarge vivid, color copies. The 2.5-inch, tilt LCD features simple, intuitive menus and offers easy viewing of every image. Just insert your memory card in the multipurpose card slots and print beautiful photos, PC-free. Or, quickly transfer files. With a convenient PictBridge® interface, the CX8400 makes it easy to print directly from your digital camera as well. Built- in Auto Photo Correction+ means you'll get perfect photos every time. And, with instant-drying DURABrite® Ultra Ink, prints are ready to handle right away. This versatile performer does it all, so you don't have to. It's all at your fingertips with the Epson CX8400.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Product Description
Perfect for personal or business use, the Stylus CX8400 Color All-in-One printer can print text black and color documents at 32 pages per minute and print standard 4 by 6 inch photos in just 26 seconds. This efficient photo printer produces a maximum resolution of 5760 by 1440 dpi for crystal-clear photographs printed with smudge, scratch, fade, and water resistant Claria Hi-Definition ink. Your photos will be preserved up to six times longer than other professional prints for future generations to enjoy, and the Stylus CX8400's Auto Photo Correction corrects overexposed shots to ensure that your images come out red-eye free and beautifully toned.

View, edit, select, and print images easily with this printer, restore old or faded color photos, and print PC-free by using the 2.5-inch tilt color LCD and multipurpose card slot compatible with memory cards, USB flash drives, and digital cameras. Copy features include fit-to-page, reduction, and enlargement capabilities from 25 to 400 percent. In addition, you'll have the freedom and flexibility to archive photos and documents by using the built-in scan-to-PDF feature, and to transfer files from memory card to computer. This printer also comes backed by a 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty.

What's in the Box
CX8400 ink jet all-in-one, 69 black ink cartridge (T069120), 69 cyan ink cartridge (T069220), 69 magenta ink cartridge (T069320), 69 yellow ink cartridge (T069420), documentation, CD-ROM (drivers and software), and power cable.

Customer Reviews

Selling this product (Epson) should be criminal.
Well... I finally made the jump to a printer, scanner, and copier and I decided to make it an Epson due to the price and individual printer cartridges. I want to issue a very serious buyer beware though and I implore you not to take this lightly. I'm not one to complain very much but this printer warrants it. Let's start with the good first. This is a very attractive looking printer, it prints well (except draft mode could be a tad darker for my taste), and it scans pretty well (not very many options to scan into other programs though). Why do I give it a one though?

Well... I got this printer about 2 weeks ago. Since then I have not printed in color at all and usually print stuff in draft mode. Well... it turns out after 2 weeks that all three of the individual color printer cartridges are almost expended!!!!! 2 weeks of no use and I need to buy three new ones? I contacted the company to see what was going on and they told me it is due to the way the printer is designed. The cartridges "prime" even if you don't use them for the print job. 2 weeks of "priming" and I almost need new cartridges which are quite pricey compared to HP, Kodak, and Canon. Plus... when my color cartridges run out... even if I still only print in black... my printer will fail to operate. Plus... I heard you can't even scan when a cartridge it out. So... you are pretty much forced to go buy a cartridge. Plus... it is quite hard to use generic ink due to the way they designed the printer. Once you do succeed you have to click "ok" to prompts because you didn't use Epson ink. I hope everyone will heed my warning. This printer will quickly be very expensive.

DON'T FALL FOR THE INK CARTRIDGE CON
I read the reviews about Epson printers and their ink cartridge issues but didn't pay attention.
I remember my Epson printers of years ago and their high quality print outs. So when I shopped for and all-in-one I gravitated to Epson and thought/hoped the reviews outlining the ink cartridge difficulties were just isolated cases. I got my Epson and two weeks later learned the horrible truth about their ink cartridges: THE REVIEWS ARE ALL TRUE!!!
The machine drinks ink like a drunken sailor. Yes, the printing is as good as ever. The scanner is good. The fax works well. But at what cost.

Before buying read the reviews. The ink costs are out of this world because they have obsolesence built into them.

Awful!!!
I hate this printer. It drinks ink, and Epson has shrunk the cartridge size to TINY. You cannot find off-brand ink for it either, so you are stuck buying ink that is gone in a few days. If you want to print in color, forget this printer.