Testing the Epson Stylus S21

Epson budget inkjets from the past have always been good performs but lacked value for money in terms of running costs in the price of their printer ink cartridges. Being a budget printer many people will buy it thinking that Epson S21 ink cartridges with be cheaper than replacement printer cartridges for other more expensive printers, and then be shocked to find that they are the same cartridges that are used by a lot of the more expensive printers so therefore cost the same. The S21 is a budget printer so doesn’t has a huge array of features, it just prints. Easy to set up The S21 is plug and play compatible and connects using standard USB connection. Power to the printer is supplied via its own power cable and the installation using the step by step software instruction is simple enough. It is well built and the quality of the materials feel as though they should withstand frequent use with the exception of the paper feed which clips onto the back of the machine and feels a bit flimsy. The downsides of the S21 are the operating noise and the print in which it speeds. The noise is particularly bad when the printer loads a sheet of paper. The printing speed is very poor even for a budget printer, Epson state the S21 as being bale to produce 25 pages per minute, where they got that figure from because in the real world the S21 produces only 3 pages per minute in standard quality setting printing black text. Overall the Stylus S21 is not a bad printer is just not a very good one and it is well worth considering spending a little bit more money and getting a lot more fro your money.