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Epson Stylus Photo RX590 for CD Printing

Dec 4, 2007 Printers

Things happen out of the blue when it’s least unintended. When I created my wedding album last month, I was in need of a printer that can print on my printable blank DVDs. I tried my HP F380 and Canon Pixma MP610 but was unsuccessful. Searching the internet didn’t provide any favourable results. I went out to my local electronic store and the sales person suggested that I try out Epson Stylus RX590 as he had good results with it. I often don’t trust salesman in electronic stores, but desperation led me to purchase it. Unexpectedly, CD printing was grand and have become a great fan of this printer. My experience led me to introduce the printer here. Here it goes.

As most of the modern Epson printers, the RX590 has a micro-piezo print head. This printer does more than just print; it’s an all-in-one printer. It has a six compartment ink cartridge with Intellidge technology which optimizes the flow of ink and hence consumes lesser ink, and results in cheaper cost per print. Like most other photo printers, it can function as a stand-alone printer and has all the bells and whistles like PictBridge port, USB, memory card reader, LCD screen and others. 4” X 6” photos are printed at 13 seconds a piece while A4 printing for both black and colour are at 30ppm.

The printer comes with a pedestrian photo editing software: Epson Creativity Suite which can perform certain photo editing functions but nothing palpable about it.

One leading feature in RX590 is its ability to print directly on CD and DVD surfaces. The software actually provides a wizard to ease the pain of printing on media surfaces.

The RX590 is priced at £150 which is decent and a good buy if you are looking to print on CDs along with other usual activities that we normally do with an AIO printer.