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It's swift, rather than fast, but the images it captured were sharp, and colours were superbly accurate. Setting it to Color Control with the Vivid profile produced the brilliant results we were expecting.Įpson's scanners are generally above average, and the one fitted to the PX660 is no exception.
#Epson stylus px660 update#
A bit of investigation revealed that as part of a minor update to its print interface, Epson appears to have changed its default colour mode to PhotoEnhance. While most subjects looked excellent, black and white prints – normally an Epson forte – looked dreadfully washed out.
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We've come to expect fantastic photo quality from Epson's inkjets, but the results from some of our initial tests were disappointing. At 3.3ppm, mixed colour prints on plain paper were competitive, but photo prints were quite slow, with six postcard-sized prints taking almost 12.5 minutes. Draft printing reached a credible 15.8ppm, but at normal quality the rate was just 4.8ppm – far short of its fastest rivals. Characters are less sharp and dark than those produced by, for example, Canon's rival PIXMA MG6150 (see Labs, issue 276), and draft text is off-black and faint.Įpson claims extraordinary speeds of up to 37 pages per minute (ppm) in mono and 38ppm in colour, but the PX660 was nothing like that quick in our tests. Unfortunately, like other similar Epson printers we've tested, the PX660 isn't a great printer for text documents. Fortunately, that's no bad thing the engine uses Claria dye-based inks and has a minimum droplet size of just 1.5 picolitres, and has been at the heart of some of our favourite photo printers. While the PX660 is new, it's based on a print engine that's been around for some years.